Small businesses often face budget challenges, but those challenges do not have to get in the way of team building.
A great and inexpensive way of creating team morale and building relationships within your staff is by tackling a volunteer service project together....
The staff at Gulf Coast Kid’s House has volunteered together at Habitat for Humanity as well as other organizations. Nonprofits have the same challenge as many small businesses – no budget – but the same need to bond together as a team outside of the office.
“At GCKH, because so much of what we deal with is emotionally taxing, it's important for us to address vicarious trauma. One way we do this is through volunteerism,” explains Gulf Coast Kid’s House Executive Director Stacey Kostevicki. “It is so cathartic for us to get together, cross-departmentally, to build a house with Habitat or sort some cans for Manna. The team comes back a little lighter and much more ‘outside of themselves.’ Volunteering off-site and knowing that you are doing something good for others, something that you can see the impact immediately, is cathartic for the team.”
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