How Can We Create a Team Culture in Our Workplace?

If you’re interested in corporate team building and creating a strong team culture within your workplace, it’s worth doing a bit of research to develop clear, consistent strategies. Although it can be difficult, team building is absolutely worth it – when done right.

With this in mind, I’ve drawn on my years of industry experience and trawled the internet to put together this list of ways to create a team culture in your workplace. Consider the following:

Make Sure You Meet Regularly

Regular team meetings are a crucial part of building a strong team culture within your workplace. Scheduling regular meetings will help your team members communicate with each other and should encourage ongoing collaboration. Consider the following:

  • Make sure your meetings have a purpose and are well organised.
  • Use regular meetings to identify ongoing issues and the best ways to resolve them.
  • Think carefully about the best time for your meetings, especially if you’re going to make them at the same time each week and/or month.

In reality, I’d recommend scheduling meetings at least once per week, and maybe more. But ultimately, it depends on your business and exactly what you’re aiming to achieve.

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Who Leads Your Reality?

What’s the difference between someone who’s led around by the nose and someone who does the leading?

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we learn about the Law of Prerequisite Variety: the element in any system that has the most flexibility will end up leading the system.

Think of little children, they have incredible flexibility. To get you to do something, they’ll tease, cajole, beg, lie, cry, laugh, use logic, use emotion, jump up and down, be adorable, be funny, and they’ll keep doing it until they get what they want.

Adults seem to have 2 or 3 patterns they keep coming back to 😛

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