Team building 'must be successful' in recession

Date: 12/08/2009

In times of financial stress, a company must ensure that staff are able to work together for the good of the company, meaning efficiency is needed when organising team building corporate events, it is said.

Maureen Moriarty of the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle said that with lay-offs and struggling markets, there is a bigger need for individuals to work together to get through challenges, change, confusion and problem solving, highlighting the need for team building conferences.

She said that in order to be truly successful, such things as a lack of trust, no accountability, task confusion and poor communication must all be addressed at such a gathering.

Without this emphasis, a company will never get the most bang for their buck, Ms Moriarty concluded.

Earlier this month, Susan M Heathfield of About.com's human resource department explained that generational differences in the workplace place a huge emphasis on the need to invest in team building matters.

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