The Sandstone Team Building Blog

I have been looking through all of our past blog entries, of which there are a few!  And I realised that we don’t actually have a blog which defines the phrase ‘team building‘.  So any guesses what this entry will be about?

According to my copy of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1997 the definition of the word ‘team’ is “a set of players; a set of people or animals working together”.  The definition of the word ‘building’ from the same dictionary is a “house or similar structure”.

So if you put the two together you can take the meaning to be a set of people working together within a structure.  And to be honest that isn’t a bad definition.  Team building as we deliver it, is a group of people who work together taking part in one of our structured activities to help deliver their desired outcomes, whether it is a more learning-focused activity or a more light-hearted fun activity.

And as a last thought the Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘teamwork’ as “organised cooperation”.  I think I would have to agree with them there.

Nikki