A strong team helps to control the chaos by preventing turnover and ensures a more positive work environment.

The more invested your team is, the less turnover you will have. Constant turnover and the need to hire, train and bring in new team members creates constant chaos. Eliminate this by developing a thriving team environment.

Team building in our early childhood businesses is essential to helping you control the chaos and find more time to focus on the things that move your business forward. It is also essential to ensuring your team is not only happy to serve your families, but are excited and delighted to do so. This makes your team building AN INVESTMENT not just a nice thing to do.

We will discuss 8 reasons team building is so important and how it translates directly to high-performing teams.

Team Building:

1. Builds Trust

2. Regulates Communication

3. Increases Productivity

4. Brings People Together

5. Fosters Creativity and Learning

6. Makes People More Accepting

7. Employees Can Acquire Skills

8. Improves Company Culture

And we will end with some great ground rules that apply when it comes to planning activities for your people.

1. Don’t force the business or corporate stuff

2. Ditch the company picnic

3. Keep that positive energy going when you get back

All in all, team-building exercises should not only be a “fun time” in the office. It must also act as building blocks for bringing businesses and people together. Now the question arises, how frequently should there be a team-building activity?

It all depends on your objective and purpose. Therefore, there is no hard and fast rule to the routine of carrying out a team activity. But there might be a few good indicators on when to conduct a team bonding exercise, which are:

When a new member or two has joined the team.
At the end of the summer, before the beginning of the new school year
When you are trying to focus on a specific team issue or trying to improve a certain team aspect.
When you are hosting a team meeting.

A quality team is essential to a successful early childhood business. Be sure to check out our free workbook, 10 Best Secrets to Growing Your Best Team Ever. This is your guide to help you hire and nurture the most amazing team members.

Some few key notes:

[1:46] It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results - Andrew Carnegie

[5:25] Trust makes people feel safe. When they feel safe, they open up. They let their team members know about their strengths and weaknesses

[7:00] One of the most important benefits of team building is that it improves interpersonal relationships between employees. When people work together, they share experiences and both failures as well as victories.

[9:05] When teams work together, it fosters creativity and innovation in the workplace. Team members communicate and collaborate more

[9:37] Some great ground rules from Forbe's Magazine that apply when it comes to planning activities for your people

[13:10] A few good indicators on when to conduct a team bonding exercises

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Hopefully, in this episode, you found some insight into why team building is an important investment in your business and essential to chaos control. How do you know you’ve gotten team building right? If there was laughter, a sense of excitement and accomplishment, and maybe a few Instagram moments, you’re definitely on the right track! Take care and have a great week!

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