Best Team Bonding Activity to Strengthen Relationships with Clients and Partners

     Are you looking for a better way to tighten the relationships with your “value chain” — the clients, partners, vendors and others outside your organization that are so critical your success? If not, you should be. Deloitte, notes how organizations increasingly have come to operate as networks of teams rather than as hierarchies of teams. These networks don’t operate within traditional boundaries.

     To get the best business results, it’s important to go beyond simple transactional affiliations to team bonding that builds trust and esprit de corps across organizational lines.

     Unfortunately, the occasional emails, conference calls or “atta-boys” with external teammates don’t do the trick. Yes, they serve a purpose: you stay in touch and get the basic communication job done. But how much real loyalty do they engender? And while you might also take some top players out to lunch, to a ball game or golfing, how much do these activities help forge deep connections with people “in the trenches” doing the work at all levels.

     To augment these efforts, consider a team bonding cooking event. There’s no better bonding experience than slicing onions or chopping garlic next to someone. Why? Cooking events provide a shared experience that everyone can relate to. Achieving a common goal  helps to unite people, no matter which org chart they fall under.  Furthermore, kitchens are warm and nurturing places. Most people have fond memories of kitchens and eating together with friends and families.

     Microsoft and Amazon brought their IT developer partners to Team Building with Taste. Leading law firms, like King & Spalding, have bonded with their top clients here. General contractors have brought their subs and some of their commercial development partners. Executive MBA programs have mixed faculty with students in cooking competitions.

     You get the idea. We’ve helped many inter-dependent organizations become more tight-knit–and have fun in the process. Let us help you tighten the linkages with your entire team, contact us or give us a call at 678-915-2815.