4 reasons to combine a meeting with a team building activity

Presenting the annual report, explaining the marketing plan, announcing a merger or advising of an organizational change - these are information that needs to be communicated but that doesn't always generate much interest from the audience. They can even seem boring during a team meeting. So why not do it as part of a team-building activity? You'll increase your chances of getting your message across, and at the same time, you'll help build team spirit.

1. From spectator to active participant

The basic idea behind combining a meeting with a team-building activity is to involve your group members individually in an interactive and collective activity. By participating fully in a group activity, everyone is given a mission and responsibilities. To ensure that everyone is involved in the thinking, discussion or change process, for example, it is essential to move beyond the simple meeting where there are more spectators than actors.

2. Working together, at the same pace

Team-building activities have a great impact on group dynamics. Spirit of solidarity, mutual aid, collaboration, and leadership are some of the characteristic phenomena that emerge. The Latulippe Team Building Centre organizes these activities to achieve this. One of them is a TAM-TAM session where 100, 300, 500 and even up to 1,000 people from the same company play drums for the first time on a stage, all together, in perfect harmony. The participants experience a sense of unity, communion and pride, but also of belonging to the group and, by extension, to the company.

Stimulate contribution and interaction. Energize your meetings and events by adding a participatory activity where your employees can express their creativity and spend their energy!

3. Strengthen team spirit

Then transpose these new skills into a work context, and you will observe behaviour changes at work. After such a collective accomplishment, people discover themselves and are more attentive to themselves and others. Bonds are created or strengthened. Your employees will be better prepared to face change, consider it, accept it and deal with it. 

4. Together in change

All team-building experiences force people to think, see and act differently, to communicate, collaborate and understand each other. At the heart of the action, people open up to new perspectives. The more palpable the feeling of being part of something big, the greater the impact. Because everyone, from the manager to the warehouse worker, can have an influence on organizational change. And that change starts with something out of the ordinary!

Photos: Tourisme Laval; Groupe consolidation d'équipe, Latulippe Centre du Team