Over the years my husband has worked for a few different companies
. Several years ago he went from owning our own business to working for a company and sitting at a computer. He loved the job. They would do team meetings and they were very united in their efforts. Everyone got along and they would do things in the office to help with the team feeling in their business. Then they made some changes and got rid of some of the key players. They were trying to cut costs. We watched over a six year period as they went from almost a hundred employees and high morale to under ten employees and about to lose everything they have.
Recently my husband got on with a company that believes in training their employees to be leaders and strong leaders. They are not afraid of having strong employees who are empowered and can think for themselves. They have done several team building training activities to keep the morale up. They figure that if they take a little bit of time in the office to do team building that it will help their business continue to grow.
Everyone that works there is very happy and wants to be there. They want to do more to help their customers and help them be successful. In all of the years that I have been married to my husband I have never seen him so confident and have such a strong desire to work hard. He has networked with the employees and become friends with them. They are not just co-workers. They are a team that is united to do things right.
I have always said to my children and anyone that I have worked with that team stands for together everyone achieves more. With different team building training that focuses on different aspects your team can withstand different pressures. It could be that there is a deadline and everyone is under a great crunch. That is definitely when the worst comes out in people. If you train them and prepare them for those crunches it can come out working really well.
Another thing that many employees don't feel empowered to do is to speak up. With a good leader and with employees that have been trained and have learned skills on how to speak up in an honest and effective way it can work to the benefit of the whole company.
All of these things that every business can benefit from and with these things businesses can find great success.