Building Relationships Offline: Getting to Know Your Team Outside of the Office

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Managers seeking ways to improve team bonding and workplace relationships find themselves pelted with “uptalk” about team bonding activities and plans.  But merely putting your team on a ropes course or encouraging them to work out a puzzle cooperatively does little good if the team doesn’t understand why its relationship matters – either to the organization or to team members as individuals.

Building strong relationships among coworkers improves overall productivity by boosting workers’ psychological well-being, which is crucial to their ability to work effectively, manage stress, solve problems, and balance work-life responsibilities.

Effective workplace relationships are the number-one factor in improving productivity, according to one survey of over 40,000 public- and private-sector employees in the United Kingdom.  The survey also revealed the following facts:

  • Strong workplace relationships lead to psychological well-being.  Employees who said they had strong relationships of trust and mutual support with their coworkers were also most likely to report positive psychological well-being, according to the study.  Likewise, employees who called their workplace relationships “stressful” were more likely to report feeling hopeless, stressed, or overwhelmed at work.
  • Psychological well-being is directly linked to effectiveness and productivity on the job.  Psychological well-being includes feelings of achievement, purpose, clarity of goals, and effectiveness, as well as resiliency in the face of tough challenges.  Workers who ranked their relationships with co-workers highly also said that they felt more in control and able to make meaningful changes with their work – signs of strong psychological well-being.

When employees have strong relationships with one another, they develop a strong sense of psychological well-being.  With the support of strong psychological well-being, an employee’s productivity has a solid base from which to increase and grow.  Employees who trust and rely on one another and who view their ability to effect change positively not only add their own efforts to the company’s goals, but encourage one another to reach further.

Improving worker relationships not only boosts the company’s productivity, but also reduces turnover and absence rates, improves the company’s “brand” as a great workplace for top candidates in the field, and improves customer service and satisfaction.

At ABA Search & Staffing, our experienced recruiters can help you find a great team to work with.  Contact us today to learn more.

 

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