Benefits of Team Building

You don’t need to be a crime scene investigator to make use of an understanding of psychology.

You’ll find trying ‘Getting Away With Murder’ so fascinating that you’ll not realise you’re learning, but this experience offers double the value if booked as a team building activity, and here’s why… any well-designed activity aimed at improving the ability to work together should:

INCREASE MOTIVATION
IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY
INCREASE COLLABORATION
ENCOURAGE CREATIVITY
PROVIDE POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
IMPROVE COMMUNICATION
CONNECT REMOTE TEAMS

BUT…

Whilst other popular team building events such as canoeing, paddle boarding, bowling and paintballing are likely to produce the shared memories between colleagues that can make a team stronger, as well as provide problems they’ll need to work together to solve – the actual skills learned are less likely to benefit staff directly. Unless your workplace is somewhat unusual, the ability to propel yourself through water, throw heavy objects accurately, or shoot each other are unlikely to be useful on a day-to-day basis.

In contrast however, developing your deductive reasoning, realising the limitations of attention and memory, learning how to evaluate evidence, and understanding the importance of unconscious bias and priming all help to avoid mistakes and make the correct decisions which are valuable skills to everybody. Understanding of these topics are essential to those working within the police, prison, or probation services – but can be applied by anyone in everyday life.