If you happen to be working with a group of people with whom you do not bond well at all, with whom you have constant bitter altercations or differences of opinion which turn sour, then engaging in team sports with them is the solution to your problem. There are many companies who organize such team sports as part of their HR initiatives to build team spirit. Believe me, it works miraculously well.
When I joined GE a few years back, as any new joinee would, I did not interact with too many people. There were around 75 people in our team then, and it was simply not possible to talk to and be friendly to every one of them. However, in the course of time, I have participated in quite a few tournaments like cricket, football and volleyball, which are team sports and require team spirit to succeed. On the field, you always want to win and you do not care whether you get along with a guy personally, if he happens to be in your team in the sport. You want to help each other out so that your team wins.
In doing so, you subconsciously develop a bonding with different persons, which actually sustains itself in your workplace as well. This is of tremendous value when you are into some project together. You tend to remember all the good times that you must have had on the field, the strategies that might have won you a point or a match, and the enjoyment you must have had after defeating the opposition. This makes to actually fulfill your technical deliverables far better than when you do not have any team building exercise. This was how we developed camaraderie among students of different departments and hostels when we used to be in IIT. That is why they say that sport is a great leveler as well as a great uniter.
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