Offices come in all sizes and types, and the number of people who will work or pass through them each day will differ too, but one thing many of them have in common is their need for office carpet cleaning if what is on the floor is carpet rather than tiles. For those offices that have carpets, we assume that the management of that business has in place some process for the carpets to be cleaned.

This could be internal cleaning staff, but the best option by far is to hire a professional carpet cleaning company to care for the carpets with regular expert cleaning. In many cases, there will be an agreement in place as to how often the various carpet cleaning processes take place. Vacuuming could be done daily, whereas deep cleaning, such as shampooing, takes place every two weeks or monthly.

What is likely to happen is that the business and carpet cleaning company will agree for inspections to take place to assess the work and also determine if the frequency of cleaning is sufficient. On the point regarding frequency, certain events and changes can take place within an office which is a reason for the time between full-scale carpet cleans to be reduced. To give you some idea of what these reasons might be, here are five of the most common ones.

Increased Foot Traffic

Much of the dirt and grime that finds its way into the fibres of an office carpet comes from the shoes of those who walk on that carpet. It should be noted that carpets also suffer from hair, dandruff, and dead skin cells that all come from humans too. Should the number of people who are walking on the carpets increase, then it follows that carpets are going to become grubbier quicker and thus require cleaning more often.

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One of the most common reasons why those who lead teams give for not implementing any team building ideas is that they do not have enough time. This is truly unfortunate and a missed opportunity to create teams that are bonded and will go the extra mile for their teammates, regardless of the scenario.

The question must be that if you are a team leader who does not believe they have the time for team building, how much of an advantage is that giving to your competitors whose team leaders, managers, and coaches have managed to found the time for building their teams?

The answer to that is a huge advantage, but it need not be that way. The fact is that even for those of you who genuinely have few opportunities to build your teams, particularly with regards to time, there are several team building ideas you can still employ. At most these require no more than 30 minutes, and in some cases can be done in less than 10. Do you think you can spare just 10 minutes to make your team a better one?

We hope so, and so here are some quick team building ideas from www.teamworksdevelopment.com.au that do not require a lot of time…

Better Or Worse

Time: 20 minutes

Split the group into teams of four or five people and then show everyone four very different objects. One example would be a drumstick, a frying pan, a baseball cap, and a cuddly toy. Now you give them a scenario and ask the teams to rank each of the objects in the order that they would be the most useful and why.

The scenarios can be as silly and weird as you like so ‘You are saving the world from an alien invasion’, and ‘You are alone in a train carriage with an escaped gorilla’ are perfect as they require high levels of creativity to resolve.

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