Planning a team building exercise for your co-workers can be a stressful endeavor. It could be made even more so if you are trying to plan for a whole department of a larger company, or even for the entire company. Having to take into account dozens of people’s needs, making sure there’s food and drink that works for everyone, and even the act of scheduling a date that works alone is a Herculean task.
And while some opt to try and keep the team-building events in the office, it’s an approach that often doesn’t work as well as people would hope… inadvertently eliminating the special nature of such events. So how should we go about properly planning and running a successful team building event?
How Do You Plan A Team-Building Event?
You know that planning a team-building event can be daunting, so it is important to do as much of the preliminary planning as far ahead of time as you can. If you’re looking at a few dozen people to coordinate, you’ll want a good month or two of lead time in your planning. If it is going to be more than a hundred, you’re going to want to coordinate as far as six months in advance to work on everyone’s schedules.
You must figure out if this will be on a day your business is closed entirely or if this is just for certain departments that could still allow coverage for your business while those participating are at the event. This leads to defining the purpose of the team building event. Are you looking to create more camaraderie within an individual department or building that across departments? Or perhaps all the departments and teams in your company?
Working with experienced event planners can help alleviate some or all of these stresses and concerns.
How Do You Run A Successful Team-Building Event?
In order to run a successful team-building event, you will want to make sure you have a definitive meeting time and that everyone’s transportation is spoken for leading up to it. A large event space that can accommodate free parking can help make this easier while also avoiding the headache of parking cost reimbursements afterward.
You will also want to make sure you have a day-of-event checklist. Have your activities scheduled, make sure food and drink are taken into consideration, and build in extra time for every portion of the event… as large groups tend to take a while to wrangle.
Have A Team Building Event So Successful They’ll Be Asking For The Next One
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