Thursday, December 2, 2021

My HR Blog # 8

 Virtual Team Building Activities

 

Introduction

With Covid 10 impact, the concept of work from home came to light in many industries that can effectively function. It also became good learning to many for exploring options to effetely monitoring employee contribution from remote. One of the concerning factors in discussion is the developing negative effects of employees in them due to not getting to interact within the business culture where they can speak or get influence in the various capacity of other collogues. Similarly, the covid impact is preventing meetings and gatherings. In these perspectives, organizations explore possibilities of virtual interaction for team building.


                            Figure 1: Virtual Team building Source: (dreamstime.com, 2021)


According to Bell, 2021 virtual team building activities that are strategically developed promote communication while reinforcing a shared team identity. These online team games and activities can also help a remote or scattered workforce avoid becoming disengaged.

As an example...

·         If remote employees are feeling lonely, alone, or unsupported, a virtual team-building exercise might remind them of all the wonderful individuals who are rooting for them.

·         When remote workers' enthusiasm wanes, a virtual team-building exercise might help them revive their enthusiasm by exposing them to other enthusiastic coworkers.

·         A virtual team building activity can assist remote workers to acquire the trust from their superiors and colleagues when they crave more autonomy.

Conclusion

Team building is an important part of fostering a healthy workplace culture and cohesion. There are many creatively designed programs available to choose from depending on the requirement and they can help teams attain their full potential or lose motivation. Working from home has become a new reality for many people, and while communication and shared identity can help to mitigate the disadvantages of separation, it's clear that what works for one team might not work for another. While there are many methods to personalize or engage a team.  Leaders who invest in their team and consider their peers as assets can improve rapport and productivity. Providing helpful aspects and team-building activities are examples of how to demonstrate concern and caring.

 

References

Anon., 2021. dreamstime.com. [Online]
Available at: https://www.dreamstime.com/talent-management-hr-human-resources-management-team-building-concept-virtual-screen-talent-management-hr-human-resources-image146297357
[Accessed 3 12 2021].

Bell, A., 2021. snacknation.com. [Online]
Available at: https://snacknation.com/blog/virtual-team-building/
[Accessed 3 12 2021].

 

 

8 comments:

  1. Timely topic. Team spirit is a very important part in a organisation for its performance. With the current pandemic situation team building activities are difficult to perform. Then the Virtual team building activities became popular to fill this gap.

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  2. Virtual team development activities include group games, challenges, and exercises conducted through platforms like as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. Icebreaker questions, virtual campfires, and group fitness courses are examples of activity kinds. These virtual activities are designed to support connections, increase communication, and boost staff morale

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  3. Team building is most essential to an every organizations to achieve their business goals. Current pandemic has given big challenge for the team work bcs it's impossible to gathering and get the performance. In this case Virtual team building has got an important place in the firm. really useful article and interesting..

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  4. Virtual team building is a proactive plan to withstand at any circumstances particularly during the covid pandemic. It helps to carry out the operation of industries consistently and effectively. It determined employees hygiene and organisation stability. Useful topic to be discussed. Thanks for sharing.

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  5. A virtual team is defined as a group of people or stakeholders working together from different locations and possibly different time zones, who are collaborating on a common project and use information and communication technologies (ICTs) intensively to co-create. It can be seen that one of the main characteristics is virtuality, which implies physical and temporal distance between members and a shared purpose (Ebrahim et al., 2009).your article make this very clear thanks for shear

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  6. Some Disadvantages include challenges with virtual teams can lie in communication, poor leadership/management and incompetent team members.

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  7. Team building activities Boosts Employees' Morale,
    Promotes Workforce Collaboration.
    Supports Innovation Management.
    Increases Productivity. In this pandemic situation we are unable to do this physically. Virtual team building activities will help to achieve this goal.

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  8. During this pandemic this is good article. Virtual team building is the process of forming bonds and collaboration skills with remote employees. The goal of these activities is to improve skills like communication and collaboration.

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