If even by mistake a demeaning act is conducted, then the entity may face legal action. A number of team building activities use this path to pit coworkers against each other for pointless contests. Companies sometimes require employees to work together nicely in teams, contribute to the knowledge-base and to achieve shared success. However, with many companies, the focus is on competition, and not cooperation or team-building. HR managers generally intend to make team-building training competitive, since competition coerces immediate passion. There are many issues with this approach.
Troubles faced in competitive team building events:
1: Competition in no way generates success with most employees
In workplace competition, some may win, but most will lose with a sagacity of not having the required qualities to contend, and that's not actually what you intend your employees to realize.
2: Competition compels people to act feverishly, insistently, and destructively
You win employees with the ideal resume, the best qualities, and robust professionalism. However, it is in such team building exercises that most of them get confronted with their primitive nature. Competition may also summon the worst from some, making them rude and agitated.
3: People tend to grasp less in a competitive atmosphere
There remains vast attainment dissimilarity when you give a thought to cooperative and competitive environments. A co-operative path teaches people to accept others, while competition only compels people to do what they already know. Co-operation helps people to learn about modesty, sacrifice, and team-building.
4: Competition worsens performance
A competitive environment will cause many employees to execute inferior performance due to a lack of confidence or faith. In contrast, performance will be increased when employees are allotted complex tasks that require co-operation.
5: Misuse of time
The average team-building training takes up too much time in finding and rewarding winners rather than teaching people to do something constructive that promotes them to do real, actual and useful work. The best team-building activities do the following:
- Give a deeper awareness about other co-workers
- Help co-workers appreciate and accept each other more than they do currently
- Provide an experience where employees are required to work together to accomplish something
- Increase the desire to co-operate and serve each other in the future
