Business Benefits

With skillful facilitation activities can be linked to business benefits. This can be added with a light touch to activities within team building days or we can create a programme with more depth by combining facilitated discussion with activities.

Analysing tasks against a list of business skills shows that four core skills are common to all tasks. These core business skills and benefits are:

• Leadership
• Communication
• Planning
• Teamwork

Other business benefits emerge naturally; more frequently come skills such as trust, assertiveness, adaptability, precision and abstract reasoning; less frequently come resource allocation, change management, logical thinking, creativity and ‘big picture’. In practice, all the business skills and benefits are interrelated. In splitting them out separately, we should recognise that many skills and benefits are involved at any one time in any one activity.

Business Benefits Main Headings

The full list of business benefits that we will cover are listed here. Each one tells its own story but they all follow a similar format in order to bring out the consistency of the message that team building activities give rise to linking to business benefits, some of which are listed below.

• Leadership (including followership)
• Communication
• Planning
• Teamwork
• Trust
• Assertiveness
• Adaptability
• Precision
• Abstract reasoning
• Analytical/logical thinking
• Resource allocation
• Change management
• Creativity
• Big Picture