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Last Minute Team Building Ideas for the End of Year

2022 is coming in hot! But before we can look forward to the new year and new beginnings, who doesn’t love the end of year shenanigans and Christmas gatherings?

If you are stuck on fun ideas to get your team together at the end of the year, this blog may be your golden ticket. At Happiness Co, we love any excuse to get together, but we are also extremely passionate about building strong and HAPPY work teams. 

That’s where we come in, we have just launched our brand new TEAM BUILDING programs and we know you are going to love them. Designed to optimise your teams’ effectiveness, positive relationships and strong leadership, our programs are also uniquely fun and engaging. Paired with a dinner afterwards, you’re bound for a successful Christmas party and team building day. 

Here are our top 5 tips for effective teams!

1. Have strong leaders

2. Create clear roles and responsibilities 

3. Build positive relationships between team members

4. OVER communicate

5. Celebrate successes

Benefits of team building programs:

Although developing and implementing strong team frameworks within your business is crucial, engaging actively in team building activities can drastically strengthen any team. 

Recent research has in fact revealed that “companies with engaged employees earn up to 2.5 times more income than competitors whose employees have a low engagement level. What is more, employees with a high engagement level are 87% less likely to leave a company than employees with a low engagement level.”

In addition to this, over “85% of all workplace failures have been attributed to lack of collaboration and/or ineffective communication and that only  50% of employees believe that their organization discusses issues in a truthful, effective manner.”

Here are some of the many benefits of team-building:

  • Increase productivity
  • Improve mental health and happiness 
  • Increase confidence
  • Strengthen team leaders
  • Increased morale and confidence 

Happiness Co Team Building Coordinator & Facilitator, Robbie Figg previously worked as a national manager and sports facilitator for over 10 years. Since then he has developed nationally successful programs, won several awards, worked with global organisations and lead a team-building company renowned in the industry for a positive culture. 

Joining forces with Robbie as Team Building Coordinator & Facilitator is Sean Fry. With over a decade of experience in facilitation, Sean brings a fun and engaging attitude to our new team-building offerings.

If you would like to organise a team-building program for your team, we recommend getting in touch for November – December 2021 as these spots will fill up fast. Please email robbie@happinessco.org and visit this page for more detail on the programs. 

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