Why Team Building is More Important Than Ever

The pandemic has seen the workplace change forever. With the hybrid workplace becoming the norm and with more and more people working from home, maintaining your team’s relationship throughout these difficult times is more important than ever.

What exactly is Team Building?

Team building is an essential element at the core of a well-functioning business. Building a strong team relationship ensures that your company performs to the best of its abilities. A good team leads to better communication, which itself leads to an increase in productivity.

Like the well-known phrase goes; Teamwork makes the dream work!

The Importance of Team Building

According to the RSPH, working from home is having an impact on people’s mental health with 67% of people feeling less connected to their colleagues, 56% finding it harder to switch off and 37% have had trouble sleeping. 

To combat this, team building brings people together, it allows for people to make new friends, learn new things and work as a group, a long list of perks that can only be acquired through one thing; socializing. And unfortunately, that is the very thing that has been missing from our daily lives over the last year. 

Pretty much everyone has missed out on meeting other people, going out with friends, family, or even co-workers. The lack of socializing can not only affect the well-being of your team relationship, but the actual mental health of each individual, and that is not something to be taken lightly.

After such a long period distanced from other people, focusing your energy on team building might be the exact thing that you and your team have been lacking. Bringing the vital social, smiles and creativeness that everybody needs.

Virtual Team Building

You might be wondering if team building can be done at a distance? The answer is yes, absolutely. Usually, team building would be associated with occupying a venue to get together, meeting up while having some food and drinks. But there is no reason why this can’t be done virtually. With the world being as modernized as it is, the opportunity is there to make the most of the tools at our disposition and make sure that team building can continue as strongly as ever no matter the circumstances.

Online Team Building: It Works!

Online Team Building is what we do best at Doodleledo, and from experience, we can tell you that despite doubts, it really does work. It allows everyone involved to get together online, no matter where you are in the world. Just grab a pen, some paper and some snacks while you are at it and enjoy a unique and fun team building event. Doing Doodleledo’s events online has added various opportunities to interact with people and have fun in ways that were not possible before. 

We have noticed through our events that people are more willing to open up and share more personal information if participating from the comfort of your home, which allows our guests and us to be even more creative! We put in the time and effort to make sure your Doodleledo event is one that you will remember; 'best team social we've ever had' from  our clients Facebook.

Seeing the joy, the smiles and the laughter that Doodleledo brings to everyone involved is what makes it worth it and is proof that team building can continue strongly and virtually.

Making the best out of a difficult situation

It has been a difficult year for many people, but we can’t let that stop us! Living in a constantly changing world, the uncertainty of what the future holds, and the increase in hybrid workspaces, team building shouldn’t become harder to do, on the contrary, it should become even easier. 

Things like joining a new company and connecting with your co-workers are never easy, especially during online times like these. That’s why Doodleledo embraces virtual connection. Guaranteeing to help break the ice through online team building, helping all of your team whether established or new, feel comfortable, to communicate, or simply just to have some fun and brighten up everyone's day.

If you feel like your team is missing some of these much-needed good vibes, get in touch with us at Doodleledo, and let’s make it happen!