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Every employer should want to improve morale, increase staff communication and ultimately increase productivity, so why don’t more companies send their staff on team development events?

Is it because some of these courses can suffer from the fact they evoke bad connotations - many brought about by the farcical events shown on television shows?

For certain, the wisdom of David Brent from TV’s “The Office” have forced middle managers to consider themselves and wonder if that’s who they reflect.

Amongst Brent’s many, now well-known, quotes the one that best shows his thinking about working as a team reads: “There may be no ‘I’ in team, but there’s a ‘ME’ if you look hard enough”.

Fans of the show will remember the brilliant instalment in which a team development expert visited the Wernam Hogg offices. Brent promptly took control, and changed the meeting into basically a celebration of himself, including an interpretation of his seminal 1980s pop ballad “Free Love on the Freelove Freeway” on the guitar.

However, team development events in real life are never like the cringe worthy and soul-destroying nightmare depicted in the show.

Numerous organisations across the country now offer business organisations the opportunity to take their staff out of the office and out on a team building day.

Team building helps staff members to learn and develop the tools and skillsets required to push business growth as well as sustain development and improvement.

And in spite of worldwide economies being in the midst of a recession, staff development remains crucial to the growth of a business. In fact, it is even more important, as when the recession stops there will certainly be opportunities for the best-managed businesses to take advantage of the developing marketplace.

Team development can take different forms, from in-house education to going out into the great outdoors and taking part in adventure courses, high ropes trails and personal challenges - which will certainly inspire and be memorable for employees taking part.

All these activities are designed to encourage staff - regardless of age or background - to work as part of a team for the common aim of your company, and they all add to the common long-term goals of your organisation.

That’s why team development events are important to the growth of any business. Just don’t follow the example of David Brent, a man whose hiring policy was straightforward: “Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them”.