Employee Retention: The Essential Effort

This is not breakout news: for every business, in every industry, a key challenge is employee retention. Every single person tries to find happiness and prosperity, and the salary is not the only considered aspect. So how can we increase the loyalty and sense of belonging of your employees towards the company? By working on the no. 1 argument to increase happiness at work: atmosphere.

Employees are looking for a motivating and positive atmosphere that contributes to exchanges and teamwork. But here is the snag: yes, your employees? attitude depends of the work atmosphere, but this atmosphere is greatly dependent of your employees? attitude. This is a vicious circle.

Team building activities are an affordable and efficient way to enhance work atmosphere, increase motivation and favor teamwork. With conferences, tam-tam sessions, painting and construction workshops, TV-shows inspired activities or culinary set-ups, your employees realize they are active participants to the change and they can contribute to enhance work atmosphere and their engagement towards the company. They understand you care about their wellness as well, which is very positive for employee retention. Team building can infuse notions of problem solving, communication, stress management, productivity, strategy, creativity and change management to your workers. The messages to share and notions to learn are infinite.

Team building is easy to add to your established corporate activities: meetings, social events, seminaries, etc. Kill two birds with one stone by helping employee retention within your usual activities

There is no secret: to keep your employees in your company, you need to make the first effort and search for solutions. Team building activities will always be an excellent solution to employee retention.

Written by :
Martin Latulippe, Maître Stratège
Team Building expert

Picasso said: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up".

Thus, we would be born to be creative, but life as we know it and responsibilities would disconnect us from our artistic side. Nevertheless, creativity is an imperative asset for a company to reach success, to innovate, to grow or to solve problems. But how can you stimulate you employees? creativity to improve their performance? Try artistic team building programs!

It is about an innovative program for organizations that wish to develop the creativity of their administrators and staff. With activities like painting, handcrafting, ceramic, musical or physical expression, your employees learn to express themselves as a group in a creative way. You will notice that some refuse their creation to be bungled by a colleague, while others will notice in this teamwork a real way to increase the sense of belonging to the organization and the team.

Artistic team building is recommended to facilitate the integration of a group during a merger, to prepare a change, to improve the performance and the synergy of a team by strengthening its cohesion, to manage conflicts, stress and what?s unexpected, to increase the sense of belonging to the organization or the trust. There are as many possible interventions as there are problems and objectives in a company!

Art awakens the senses and awakes intuition. To use creativity at work is excellent for motivation, self-confidence and team spirit. A creative employee will bring new solutions for the good of the organization. 

Written by :
Martin Latulippe, Maître Stratège
Team Building expert

Team building: Establish synergy for success

« Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. » -- Henry Ford

Already, at the beginning of the century, Henry Ford understood the importance of cohesion, teamwork and consolidation within a working group. But times change: the twenty-first century employees are independent and demanding.

In a market where the demand for a young and more educated workforce grows exponentially with the retirement of boomers, many search from one company to another, from one position to another, looking for a better situation. And a significant turnover in staff within a friable team may represent astronomical costs in training, replacement, management ... and ultimately a flawed productivity.

Team building is a proven method to enhance the retention of team members, their interdependence and cohesion. This method allows the development of effective collective values in a company such as cohesion, interdependence, or involvement. Through sports, cultural, artistic or creative activities, team building can create more permanent values in a work team: surpassing oneself, solidarity, stress management, membership, the adherence to the corporate culture, effective communication, respect, the abolition of stereotypes, racism and more.

To learn more about team building, or to see the possibilities for your business, contact the Latulippe Centre du Team Building. Their innovative and effective approach will ultimately help your work teams and your business.

Written by :
Martin Latulippe, Maître Stratège
Team Building expert

Establishing Trust with tam-tam team building: A Quebec init

If you are running a company, one of the most important things that you should keep in mind is not only the production process but also the welfare of your workers. Being happy at work as a member of a united and synergic team increases the employees? global satisfaction towards each other, and even more, towards the company. Consequently, the company?s growing line is reaching higher levels.

In today?s market, qualified workers are intensely in demand. To be happy at work is not a goal to reach anymore: it is a basic criterion in job seeking. One of the reasons why workers want to find a way out of a company is mainly because they are not happy with the overall atmosphere of their workplace. When respect is settled between managers and employees, everyone enjoys working and is willing to stay in the enterprise. In the objective of keeping their job, every single employee puts a lot of oneself into the company?s success.

However, these basic rules aren?t enough for employees who have been working for several years in the same enterprise, where they became key elements due to their much needed knowledge and experience. One of the recurrent complaints of these key employees is the lack of freedom to achieve their work, the rigorous management that doesn?t leave any room for personal initiative, even if they have proven their professionalism in the company.

An efficient solution to establish trust between employees themselves, and also between employees and managers, is tamtam team building.

Sometimes, traditional team building activities aren?t efficient because employees either simply don?t care as if it wasn?t important at all or they don?t have fun doing them. There was a need to add an “interactive and entertaining?” side to the activities. Tam-tam team building was invented in Quebec, and consists of creating a musical concept as a group using individual tam-tams. This musical activity is relaxing, incredibly fun and increases the sense of belonging to the company. Furthermore, work team members learn how to rely on cooperation, in order to understand that even if the rhythm of an individual is different from another, the result will be nothing but better. This technique is beneficial for both employees and managers. The employee is tutored how to work in a team and to learn about his colleagues? background and strengths, while the employer learns how to trust his employees and acknowledge their initiative.

Tam-tam team building has been growing in popularity since most companies understand that they have to maximize all opportunities to conserve, cultivate and motivate their working teams. Quebec is now the hot spot for team building in Canada. Many companies in the country come to Quebec to experience team building seminars to strengthen and mobilize their employees.

Using these revolutionary team building methods in the Province of Quebec, employees are invited to work on themselves as individuals and group members. Enjoying a pleasant and active way to team bond provides better results more effectively, and more quickly. Tam-tam team building is the ultimate proof that companies and their workers can make a lot of progress using rhythmic music, in a short period of time. 

Written by :
Martin Latulippe, Maître Stratège
Team Building expert

A human being will spend a fifth of his adult life at work. This time will seem infinite if his attitude regarding his tasks, colleagues or employer is negative. The loss of motivation, burnout and depression are just around the corner for those who lost all sense of happiness.

There is only one solution to be passionate and happy at work, to self-accomplish, and to have a positive and contagious energy: stop working, and start having fun to maximize performance.

This concept takes its source in the simple fact that if a person likes his job and has a positive attitude towards it, working does not seem to be a burden anymore, but a source of accomplishment as well as an effective way to proliferate within a team. Stress, anxiety and bad attitude being left behind, the individual becomes confident, has fun, wants to work as a team, and wills to share ideas.

As a manager, the mobilization of your team members is prior to achieving your business objectives. Your staff needs to be motivated and to enjoy what they accomplish for their employer. Team building programs teach your employees how to work as a team, to set up a personal action plan to become a better person, then to target the negative behavior, which leads to conflict. Together, they establish new working standards and commit to making concrete actions for the team?s harmony and success.

Nothing restrains us from perceiving work as a game. If the atmosphere at work is pleasant and motivating for everyone, then the team keeps focusing on a common purpose: success.