The best team building days are the ones where employees get to have a fun day together and let their guard down. The more a workforce can relax with each other on a team building day, the better they will learn to communicate with each other and trust each other. The more familiar employees from disparate parts of an organisation, or even just a room, can be, the more efficiently the organisation will work as barriers are knocked down and false antagonism is removed ok win.
A common bugbear of workers forced to go on team building days is that they don’t enjoy the activities. They are often corralled into a room and forced to do role plays or other drama-based trust games that provide little to no entertainment and often serve to merely embarrass the less confident workers.
It is much better to offer activities that everyone can enjoy together. If a feeling of goodwill can be associated with one’s colleagues, this feeling will be associated with the workplace and also open up lines of communication that may have been blocked, or at least rocky before. And with open lines of communication comes increased efficiency and productivity within an organisation.
If you’re after just such an activity, a fun casino might be just the thing. Fun casinos are essentially the same as a normal casino, except no real money passes hands. This not only conveys the obvious advantage of complying with local gambling regulations (gambling tends to be strictly regulated, so you are unlikely to be permitted to host an event with real money passing hands) whilst still offering a solid game of poker, but means that there is less pressure as no one stands to lose any actual money. This in itself can make it a much more enjoyable experience, and means that no one has to feel uncomfortable about gambling or putting in money that they don’t have.
As you will need to hire roulette tables and the like in order to put on such an event, you will need to engage a professional casino hire company, meaning that you will also hire croupiers. This means that if anyone doesn’t know how to play any of the games, help will be on hand to teach them. All the games are fairly simple and so no one need feel embarrassed and not being able to play them.
As an added incentive, it’s always a good idea to offer a small prize for the person who wins the most ‘fun money’, and adds a friendly sense of competition to the event that can really enhance the day – it also gives your employees/colleagues something else to talk about back in the office, particularly if you choose a prize that offers some comedy value.
The key to a great team building day is delivering something that allows the workforce to relax and get to know each other. Many team building days fail in this objective by forcing people to take part in activities they feel uncomfortable or embarrassed in doing.
With the emphasis on ‘fun’, fun casinos can be a great way of achieving this in offering simple games that are easy to play and also tend to encourage conversation between the players, without any pressure to win or lose, as nothing of value is at stake.