Teambuilding: Five Steps to a Dream Team

Teambuilding - Five steps to a dream team!

Team work makes the dream work, as they say, and working in a team creates a sense of belonging, security, participation, and a more pleasant work environment. But what makes some teams more effective than others? Here are five tips on team building and ways of working to help you and your colleagues create a successful dream team and work better - together!  
1. Set common goals and rules
A clear, attractive goal is inspiring and motivating for many of us. Start by setting the group's purpose and goals together. Having the whole team share the same vision and attitude towards work from the beginning makes it easier to collaborate. Also, create a set of clear rules that everyone can follow, such as "We should have fun," "We should give each other a lot of praise and feedback," and "We should always improve how we work together." 

2. Benefit from each other
Everyone is different! Benefit from each other's knowledge and personalities. A successful team often consists of different individuals, where both personality and skills complement each other. Make sure to build your dream team with an "Implementer" who organizes, plans, and makes things happen, a "Strategist" who gathers information and makes plans based on analysis, an "Influencer" who is creative and sees opportunities, and a "Relationship Builder" who ensures that the whole team is positive, efficient, and on track. . Here you can read about how your team can make use of moodboards!
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3. Have fun together!
A close-knit team is an engaged team! Doing things together and having fun outside of working hours gives you better opportunities to get to know each other. Create a real team spirit by doing something active together - preferably a team sport, cooperation exercise, or other fun team building activities.

4. Maximise the meeting culture
Don't let meetings just be about information - see them as a creative opportunity to move forward in your work. Vary between half-days for education, short decision-making meetings to move forward, quick standing meetings for alignment, active walk-and-talk meetings outdoors, and slightly longer conferences to both be creative and get to know each other better. Pure information can, for example, be conveyed with a weekly newsletter via email instead.  

5. Reflect regularly
Results, both negative and positive, should be followed up on an ongoing basis to ensure that the team is working together in the best way possible. This strengthens learning within the team and makes improvement opportunities clearer. Ask each other questions such as "What worked well?" "What could have work better?" and the important question: "What did we learn from this, and how can we work to improve together next time?" 


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FAQ

Team building aims to create work groups with strong cohesion where you and your co-workers collaborate towards common goals, while also striving to create a good group dynamic and get to know each other. 
Team building can be anything from simple games to get to know everyone in a team, to a larger activity inside our outside the workplace such as discussion forums, a course, or joint training. 
A team with high psychological safety is characterised by employees who dare to say what they think, feel, and believe, and a space in which everyone is treated with the same respect. Team building exercises that encourage development but are at a level where everyone can participate according to their personal circumstances, for example physical, are crucial to create a basic sense of security and understanding.
Put a lot of emphasis on having good cohesion with clear visions and goals that you strive for together with open communication and feedback. Celebrating successes is an easy way to strengthen the team spirit and further motivates the team!
Working together towards common and clearly defined goals, trusting each other, and ensuring that everyone feels safe in their roles is a good foundation for a well-functioning team. 
Ensuring that everyone in the team feels a strong sense of community and team spirit where everyone feels seen and heard. Not all teams need clear leadership, but if necessary, someone in a leadership role may be needed. Feeling a sense of belonging is one of the strongest human driving forces, so good cohesion is built on everyone feeling a sense of togetherness. 
A team that is positively dependent on each other and strives towards common goals where everyone feels a shared responsibility when it comes to commitment, their roles, loyalty, and what they contribute to the team. 
In a work group, each group member is independent of their colleagues and has their own individual responsibility. While in a team, team members have close collaboration and a shared responsibility to solve problems and tasks.

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