Why Summer Is a Great Time for Company Team Building Activities

For a lot of companies, summertime is the best time to organize team building activities. Images of the bright blue sky and shiny glistening oceans come to mind immediately.

But what really makes summer a great time to hold company team building events? Let’s read on to find out.

Summer will always be a good time to relax

The environment has a big effect on how we feel. And with summer, a lot of factors are there that can help induce a calming effect on us.

For one, with sunny weather comes to heat, and when you do activities in heat, you produce sweat. Summer sets up the perfect atmosphere to break a sweat in various activities. When you do these activities, the brain rewards you by giving you endorphins!

Aside from that, sunshine itself can put you in a better mood! Serotonin is produced when you take in the sunshine, and serotonin helps you feel energized and positive throughout the day.

Plus, summer gives good incentives to be out and about in nature. And nothing provides good, solid healing like a breath of fresh air out in the embrace of mother earth.

Only in summer, you get to see organized holidays

The summer is the space in your calendar where huge chunks of days are dedicated to relaxation and taking a break. No other season has more organized holidays than the season of the sun.

In the Philippines alone, there are about five to eight regular holidays spanning the summer season. So there’s plenty of space to set a time for team building activities, especially ones involving families and friends of people in the company.

Summer is also usually the time when a lot of celebrations are held on. Lots of fiestas and commemorations of the end of the school year are held in this season, so the vibe of partying and hanging out with people is there to encourage you to take a load off.

Summer is a good time to take the time off

Employee burnout is a real problem in today’s fast-paced economies. With the urgency of market trends changing at the drop of a hat, no matter which industry you’re from it is difficult to always be quick on your feet.

That being said, to make up for the rush jobs during the previous holiday season, summer is a great time to let employees take the time off. A happy employee leads to increased work productivity and a higher work output quality.

For employers, this is the time to be more forgiving with leave policies. And this is also the best time to organize company team building activities.

From a team dinner to a full-blown 3-days 2-nights outing, there are plenty of ways you can organize team building activities to help employees get their well-deserved break. A good boss leads a team, not just employees and this will help them feel like they’re part of a team.

Summer Fun Recharges Employees for the Whole Year

No matter which level of the job hierarchy you are at, it is always important to take long breaks to recharge yourself. Sure, small breaks interspersed between work is good, but a hard reset from long breaks will do wonders.

For employees, as mentioned before, a long break can make them more productive and less resentful towards the work that they do. Plus, they can have a better work output. But aside from regular employee seeking vacation being important, employees in leadership positions must take vacations too.

When employees in leadership positions take a break, they refresh their mindset over the work and may come back with fresh solutions and perspectives that can be utilized by the company.

Plus, when leaders take vacations, it allows employees to know that their leaders trust them with their work. While at the same time it reminds them that vacation time is a part of their stipends and should be used when available.

The Philippines Is a Tropical Country

Finally, one big perhaps obvious reason why summer is a great time for company team building activities is this: we live in a tropical country. We only really get two seasons and nobody likes doing activities in the rain.

There are a lot of facilities that open up during the summer where companies can hold their team building activities. And it’s less likely to be canceled due to the rain.

It is best to take advantage of the sunny, bright weather now than to waste money and the time of your employees and yourself by organizing a team building activity when the country is ravaged by rain.

Plus, the summer is when a lot of our country’s natural beauties shine. And this will give you a chance to let your skin touch unairconditioned air flow for once.

The summer will come and it will go. Don’t let it pass you by without experiencing it for at least a day! It is sure to do you good.