One tangible result of a team building program is for a team and its members to realign its goals, creating strategies, and drafting action plans. A team building program therefore can be used as a session for goal setting, strategic planning, and action planning. Team building programs also allow an atmosphere where efficient meetings on goal setting, strategic planning, and action planning can be done.

Team building programs are not just for teams to get to a high performance levels. Teams that are highly performing will also benefit from team building programs. While Bruce Wayne Tuckman's original theory on stages of group development focused on getting teams to a level of high performance(the Performing stage), he added in 1991 that high performing teams need to adjourn and that the stages of group development could actually be a cycle. Upon adjourning, teams again go through the process of forming, storming, norming, and performing, then adjourning. When teams get to the performing stage, that becomes their new status quo and similar to what happens when a team stays too long in the forming stage, people can also get bored staying too long in a status quo at the performing stage. This is because, even when the team is already performing well, there is always room for improvement, there will always be new challenges to face, there will always be bigger dreams to make, and there will always be greater goals to achieve.

One very good reason to do team building activities for members of an organization is to get the team to perform at a very high level. Teams have to understand that teams do not automatically just click and immediately work at a high performance rate. High performance teams go through several stages before they even perform at a high level.

According to Bruce Wayne Tuckman in his theory of the stages of group or team development in 1965, teams go through the stages of forming, storming, norming, and performing. It is the goal of each team to get to the performing stage.

Why do organizations need to do team building programs for their employees? One theory suggests that team building programs help build camaraderie, examine fair and equitable practices from within the organization, and encourage and motivate everyone towards working for fulfilling personal and group achievements.

According to David Sirota (2003) in his 3-factor Theory of Human Motivation in the Workplace, the three pillars that motivate people at work are (1) fair and equitable treatment of all individuals within the organization, (2) camaraderie among colleagues at work, and (3) motivation to achieve important work or simply put, achievement motivation.