| Corporations around the world have learned that | | | | a group for the first time, to schedule indoor |
| one way to improve productivity and enhance | | | | team building activities of a nature that allow the |
| cooperation within their ranks is to schedule team | | | | group to break the ice and get to know one |
| building days where employees are paid to | | | | another. The indoor setting provides for a level of |
| participate in exercises away from work that are | | | | proximity that is much more difficult to achieve |
| designed to encourage teamwork and strengthen | | | | outdoors. Therefore, members of the group are |
| the bonds between team members. While many | | | | more or less forced to get to know one another |
| employees look forward to such days with | | | | and to redefine their own personal space in |
| anticipation because they expect some | | | | reference to the other members of the group. |
| extravagant outdoor activities, it is very | | | | Another important aspect of these activities is |
| important not to overlook the importance of | | | | personal safety. By their very nature, many |
| indoor team building activities. | | | | outdoor activities are more dangerous to |
| While outdoor team building activities are normally | | | | individuals in that there is a greater chance of |
| quite exciting, it is also possible for the message | | | | injury if even one team member fails to do what |
| that managers are trying to communicate to be | | | | is required. |
| lost amid all the fun. Indoor activities can be just | | | | This is not necessarily the case with indoor |
| as exciting and just as much fun while being | | | | activities. These activities usually never leave the |
| carried out in a setting that reinforces the lessons | | | | floor, thus eliminating the risk of falling. They also |
| being taught. | | | | do not normally involve any type of projectile |
| It is generally easier to create a scene indoors | | | | they can achieve enough velocity to do a person |
| that uses the visual, auditory, tactile, or other | | | | harm. |
| sensory stimuli to reinforce the point of the | | | | While outdoor team building exercises are often |
| activities being engaged in by forming a link in the | | | | more energetic and in many cases more |
| minds of the participants between the sensory | | | | entertaining than indoor team building activities, the |
| stimuli and the game or activity. | | | | importance of these indoor activities cannot be |
| It is often a standard practice to include some | | | | overstressed. They can provide for a group to |
| sort of motivational speech that contains an | | | | develop their ability to work together as a team |
| outline of which team functions are going to be | | | | in a safe, controlled environment and provide for |
| worked on and strengthened before the actual | | | | the team members to be placed into closer |
| activities begin. | | | | proximity to one another than would be possible |
| It is not at all uncommon, when putting together | | | | outdoors. |