The Benefits:
- Teambuilding improves productivity and motivation.
- Teams will gain and increase ability to solve problems.
- Teambuilding helps break down personal and political barriers and allows for rapport building.
- The process can help level the playing field between outgoing and shy team members.
- Participating in teambuilding can help teams overcome performance problems.
The Disadvantages:
- Teambuilding requires expert facilitation in order to be successful. Not every team leader has innate facilitation skills.
- Activities can be time-consuming for teams with a short-term charter. And if team members are part-time, they may have conflicting feelings about the time the teambuilding takes.
- If several levels of management are on the team, those members may be reluctant to open up.
- Conducting teambuilding activities electronically or by conference cannot be as effective face-to-face sessions.
- Some teambuilding exercises involve touching or physical movement, which can make some people uncomfortable.