“We go faster alone, we go further together”. This quote from Patrick O’Nolan clearly highlights the importance of collective intelligence in moving forward and achieving beautiful things. For the well-being of your employees at work, and to significantly improve the performance of your organization, team cohesion and strength of a group are the secret to go far. But how to work on it? Teams Connect tells you everything about it: why and how to strengthen team spirit between colleagues, not forgetting ideas of team building for building strong relationships.
Caring about relationships between employees is essential when you are a team manager for the smooth running of the company, and this for several reasons. The atmosphere will be better, the well-being at work will be real and great performances will be the key.
Within an organization, it is essential to define the role of each person, to combine forces to achieve a common goal, a specific objective. Collective intelligence is often the solution to difficulties.
For more effective management, developing and strengthening the team spirit is essential. You know this for sure, but a healthy work environment has real positive impacts on employees: commitment, motivation, solidarity, active listening, respect, pleasure at work…. A good team spirit ensures a collaborative dynamic where creativity, innovation, communication, productivity and performance are king. If all members of a team feel committed, have a clear vision and a specific goal to achieve together, success will be achieved.
Good to know: a turnover rate (calculated by dividing the number of departures by the average annual workforce, multiplied by 100) greater than 10% must challenge the managers of a company. Too much turnover in an organization can reveal a bad atmosphere or a management failure. To retain your employees and limit absenteeism, strengthening the cohesion within a work team is fundamental. Find the Teams Connect tips below!
To develop a good team state within your company, it is advisable to define beforehand the roles and responsibilities of each for total transparency on the actions of each. All employees must join forces for a common goal: SUCCESS !
To develop a good collective mindset at work, the company must share core values such as:
Empathy and kindness : being able to understand, trust and respect those you talk to.
Active listening and free expression : each employee can express his ideas without fear of judgment, just as we should not judge others. Note that co-construction is often the key to success.
Solidarity : an essential factor for progress as a team. We need to adapt the vision of “win together, lose together” and know how to celebrate successes and bounce back from failures.
Communication: if there are comments, they must always be constructive and factual. Similarly, sharing information across a group is essential to ensure equality.
To ensure a good team spirit within your company, the definition of S.M.A.R.T objectives is not to be neglected. This management tool, which groups together specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based objectives, allows a clear understanding of each member’s expectations, goals and precise criteria, both collective and individual.
The S.M.A.R.T method helps to better manage deadlines, give direction and anticipate difficulties. Employees know where to go, with whom, when… which also generates less stress.
Another point, not least, to strengthen the team spirit in your company… rituals.
As a management, developing an enterprise culture through moments of exchange and conviviality between colleagues, more or less informal, is an excellent idea.
On a daily basis, you can take a few minutes at the beginning of the meeting to discuss with your employees their emotions and feelings, their occupations during their free time… to bring more humanity into your relationships.
You can also organize other more informal moments of conviviality during a end-of-year meal, a seminar, a team day… Even if the organization of this type of event can represent a certain budget, it will be largely compensated in the long term: good understanding between employees, productivity gain, loyal employees…
Organizing a team building session helps strengthen the bonds between your employees. This activity is ideal for creating shared memories. You can take the opportunity to highlight the values of the company, its CSR initiatives or make a charitable action to give meaning to the event.
Teams Connect offers several Team Building activities depending on your issues and the affinities of your teams. For example :