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Facilitation of intact team events Effective teamwork is an essential prerequisite to organisational success. Teams that do not perform become the weakest link in the organisational chain and can hold the whole business back. We specialise in bringing together an expertise in how teams work and the typical barriers to team performance with the ability to link this back to real workplace improvement. Typical team events are two days long and follow a three step approach.
Create a “hot-house” environment which allows all the interpersonal and personal issues to be surfaced but remove the “real work” context. We do this by challenging the team to achieve something as a team outside their normal comfort zone. This can mean anything from sailing a 40ft yacht, to producing and broadcasting 2 hours of day-time television, physical challenges like walking in Wales to intellectual challenges like running a million dollar company. The specific challenge is always tailored to the group. The result is always to provide real-time examples of behaviour that normally manifests at work over longer periods.
Having generated the examples of effective and less effective behaviour we can then start to review and understand them. By giving people a model to recognise and understand the impact of certain behaviours, you can make them aware of their impact on others. From here you can get some significant breakthroughs in individual’s appreciating their own and others’ contribution to team effectiveness. We use a range of team and interpersonal models from Myers-Briggs (MBTI®) to Social styles, Belbin and others as appropriate.
The final and most important step is to
plan how these new insights can help the team be more effective
at work. This step is often left to the individual, but we have
found by building this into the workshop we can make the transition
back to work easier and more likely to be effective.
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