Team Building and Employee Motivation

Effecetive team buliding & Employee Motivation fit together. Successful organizations are not involved in team building as an end unto itself but because with effective team building employee motivation increases & organizational results are achieved. Effective team building starts with efforts that are aligned with the organizational strategic plan, employee motivation increases when employees are working on the real issues of the organization. Six Sigma plus projects have team buliding components & employee motivation elements aimed at improving well-defined issues.

Enjoyment in work increases team building effectiveness. Team building is a tool for improving employee motivation. All teams fo through very predictable phases. Knowing & understanding these phases gives leadership the confidence to continue in team building even when the employees motivation appears to be on decline. When leaders as well as the employees understand this as a normal phase they possess the confidence to continue the team buliding activities for the world-class performance.

Assessments aimed at undersatnding yourself & others can speed up team buliding process. Undersatnding is the first step in developing employee motivation. The clear understanding of other employees' motivation gives every individual an opportunity to add to the synergy of the team.

Empowerment of employees can go a long way in developing employee motivation. The level of employee empowernment should be to the extent that an organization can afford and cultivate so that the level of employee motivation increases with out leadership making efforts to increase the level of employee empowernment first.

In order to increase employee empwernment an employee motivational program for leadership, executives & supervisory staff is necessary. Only when the leaders, managers & supervisors have a common understanding for employee motovation it is likely that the level of employee motivation increases. Thus empowernment is key to employee motivation which can increses sense of belongingness among the team members to strive for higher productivity.