TEAMBUILDING

Sample outdoor ropes challenge course-based programmes
Floating Tent Pole	Low Wall	Trustfall	Balance Platform
Key Punch	Crevasse Crossing

Sample Experiential Team Challenges (INDOOR Portables)
Team-storming	Spiders Web	Traffic Jam	Bull Ring
Turnstile	Warp Speed

Everest Motivation Team has been helping organisations seriously address their teambuilding development and deliver REAL return on investment, instead of platitudes and ineffectual feedback forms. Do you know what you are getting from each dollar spent on ‘ teambuilding’. Most monies spent, in our opinion is largely wasted as there has not been a well thought-out process to encourage and equip teams with the skills and mindsets to work together effectively

We help your teams:

• address strengths and weaknesses using great teamwork tools
• learn in a fun, safe environment
• understand specific skills they need to employ for teams to succeed
• address difficulties in implementing good behaviours through follow-ups and longer term programmes
• execute such programmes throughout Asia-Pacific
• provide programmes devoted to more fun under our Everest Teambuilding Pte Ltd group
  

Our teambuilding programmes are different and here’s how:

Here is how money is wasted on ineffectual ‘ teambuilding’:

1) The vast majority of decision makers fail to distinguish between teambuilding processes and outcomes, and team bonding events. The latter produce very little real ROI except provide some pleasant distraction for your staff for a day and some very temporary heightened sense of well-being. Their decision to buy into such a programme is largely focused on what games and activities that will be provided and at what price. Actual teambuilding programmes are geared towards producing a certain outcome e.g. enhanced intra-team communication, and use the actual experiential activities merely as a platform from which group learning and “ ah-ha’s “ of the day can be transferred back to the workplace by experienced facilitators trained in experiential learning methodology

2) The vast majority of buyers of teambuilding programmes have also not done any quantitative employee or team climate-study. Unless they know what their team is like in terms of contextual strengths and weaknesses in terms of specific team behaviours before a programme, how can any teambuilding programme be meaningfully designed for outcomes? At Everest Motivation Team, we use a 56-question online tool, which measures eight key team competencies. After a programme is designed and executed, we follow up with another online staff questionnaire to see which areas the programme has impacted. The qualitative and quantitative results represent the client’s ROI.

It amazes us how so few potential clients actually care about how their dollars are being translated into future positive team behaviours that help the bottom-line.

3) The vast majority of decision-makers only want to see a team event as a one-off, and never integrated into a greater plan of leadership or team development. In short, they are committed to a great day out, and less to sustainable results. Ever heard of a great team that was created in a day? Look at your spending on “ teambuilding” compared to sales, communication and such skills-based training costs. Without the platform of what we call Specific Observable Behaviours (or SOB for short), few of these training measures are sustainable as poor team behaviours hobble them in the medium term. Teambuilding is a process, not an event.

Unless your staff really need a team bonding experience like going for a bowling session, karaoke, what they might really benefit from instead is attending a fun, teambuilding programme designed to help them back in the workplace.

Here’s how you tell the difference: