Team Culture
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Team Culture

🔖 Contents on this page:

  • Culture building
  • 🍽️ Lottery lunch
  • 🗣️ Language tandem program
  • 👫 Regular team events

Culture building

One of the most important resources when building a company is your team. A good team culture is key to improve employee engagement, reduce turnover and interpersonal conflicts. Culture is created by people, not the objects placed around them. For example, putting a ping pong table in the office will not automatically create a good culture. Culture takes time to build. It’s not tangible.

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For further information, please see Culture Management

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Layer’s Open Culture Guide constitutes a great example on how to set up company culture guidelines and how to effectively communicate them.

🍽️ Lottery lunch

  • Create a monthly lottery lunch where people from different teams go out for lunch.
    • LunchLottery EN

    Lyle is the co-founder and CEO of LunchLottery. In the past he has worked with ETH Zurich to build up the ETH Spin-off community, delivered innovation formats for ABB and dpd Switzerland as well as implementing digital solutions for pwc, Leonteq and Takeda.

    lunch-lottery.com

    LunchLottery EN

🗣️ Language tandem program

  • Leverage the diverse backgrounds of your team. This might be the ideal set-up to establish a tandem language program within your company
  • What is a language tandem?
    • A language tandem is a personal and flexible method to learn a language, which fits into any calendar and moreover is a lot of fun. All interested people sign up and indicate what language they speak, and what language they want to learn. The “pairs” are then matched based on these criteria.
    • How does it work?
      • There are a few rules for a well-functioning language tandem:
        • regular meetings (preferably once a week)
        • both languages are spoken during every meeting
        • time is divided up equally between the languages (e.g. half an hour German, half an hour Croatian)
        • in every phase just one of the languages is spoken
        • every person is a learner half the time and a mentor the other half of the time
        • correction of mistakes in a sensible way

👫 Regular team events

  • Team events contributes strongly to team building which builds trust, mitigates conflict, encourages communication, and increases collaboration. Effective team building means more engaged employees, which is good for company culture and boosting the bottom line.
    • Why Team Building Is The Most Important Investment You'll Make

    Team building has a bad rap. In most companies when a supervisor says, "We're going to do some team building!" employees start re-running old episodes of The Office. It's one thing to see it on TV, but getting a real-life taste of your manager mimicking Steve Carell's insanely-awkward-try-hard leadership style just isn't as funny.

    www.forbes.com

    Why Team Building Is The Most Important Investment You'll Make
  • Team Event Ideas/Providers
    • 75 Insanely Fun Team Building Activities For Work In 2022

    Believe it or not, fun team building activities for work are critically important to the success of your business. In fact, the personal bonds formed between team members actually give your company a competitive edge. How does this work? It's all about engagement.

    snacknation.com

    75 Insanely Fun Team Building Activities For Work In 2022
    Teams that play together, stay together

    The platform making team events beautifully easy, virtually and in person. Get inspired, book and plan your team events in minutes.

    www.jurnee.io

    Teams that play together, stay together