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Team building activity 

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Team building activities are a fun way to get employees together. It can take off the pressure and stress of things like short term loans and mortgages. Team bonding is an important part of employee welfare activities.

Here are some good team building ideas…

Shoe mix

Employees should be divided into teams. All of them have to remove their shoes and pile it up in the middle of the room. The piled shoes are mixed with other shoes. After this, each team should come and wear their pair. The team which does this the first wins.

Pictograph

Each team member has to come and pick a chit from a bowl. The chit will not be read out to others. Only the person picking the chit knows what is written in the chit. This person communicates the word in the chit on a drawing board using illustrations.
Each team is given a chance. All the team members get equal chances. The team which scores the most will win. This game gets team members to understand each other better.

Tell a story

Team members stand in a horizontal line. One person utters a word. The other person says another word. The third person says another word which makes sense and gives some direction to form a sentence. Like this each member should say a word to form a sentence and ultimately to tell a story. You can have different versions of this. Science fiction, romance, and thrillers are good subjects for this. The best would be comedy. Not only will it entertain the people saying it, but also people listening to it.

 

 

 

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How to Determine If You Need Employees

Eventually, every small business owner will have to determine whether or not they should hire on a few employees to help lessen the growing workload. The thought of extra hands to help is easy enough to think about, but actually knowing when the time is right is a completely different story. Here are a few tips that can help you decide if you need to make the plunge.

  1. There are a lot of small tasks that are weighing you down. When you analyze your workday and realize that there are a lot of automated tasks that are just taking up too much time you may want to consider hiring an additional worker. However, always remember that you will still have to teach them how the tasks are meant to be completed so that you can fully trust them to run that side of business.
  2. You have enough income to support another person. It is very important to remember that an employee will depend on you, week after week, to provide them with a steady pay check – or at least what was outlined in the contract they signed when they were initially hired. You cannot fail to pay your employee when you don’t make enough.
  3. You’re ready to grow your business. Hiring employees can help you expand your business further than you could alone.

Hiring an employee is not for every small business owner – there are some situations that play out better when they are operated by one person as opposed to many. Due to the nature of small businesses, it is entirely up to you, the owner, to hire anyone – no one can make that choice for you.

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Use Your Company’s Social Environment to Succeed

Every business is a social environment. You get to know your co-workers and often their families. There are many businesses whose employees work, play and go to church together.

This social environment can help or hinder any company. Take a look at your social system and determine how it is affecting your company. Encourage positive aspects of your environment and seek ways to change a negative one.

You can even use your social system to encourage positive revenue growth. The social system determines how employees think about the company. If they are excited to work and to be with their co-workers, that enthusiasm will carry into the work day. They will think how to improve your company for you and encouraging this thought process with social, emotional and economic rewards can pay off handsomely.

Your employees in a positive social environment can be encouraged to come up with growth ideas. Ways to grow the company and bring health to the bottom line. Speaking positively at all levels can pay big dividends.

Innovation within a company often comes from all levels within a company and the manager or owner who encourages this social phenomenon will constantly reap the rewards of solid revenue growth and profits. Employees at all levels contribute. Often they do not realize just how much their idea has helped so let them see how their ideas have grown the company.

Not all ideas are good and not all ideas should be accepted. Graciously thank the giver of these ideas as well. Sometimes you will even need to gracefully explain why the idea cannot be used. This will help them to understand your business and often they will tweak the idea into one that is useable.

Humans are social beings and all companies have a social environment within them. Proactively work with your social system to create a positive environment of productivity and profits. Socially and economically it is worth your time.

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