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Team Skills

Introduction:

This workshop is a fast introduction to team working and the way you manage your energy. The definition of a team is a group of people who work willingly together to create Synergy to achieve mutually agreed objectives. A high performing team is a blend of people with diverse backgrounds and different skills working together to provide a service that delights clientsThis workshop enables you to examine your performance in more detail and the effect that you have on your colleagues, the organisation and your customers.

Aim:

To introduce delegates to the main theories and practice of teambuilding

Target Audience:

All people who work in teams

Duration:

1 day

Method:

Experiential Learning: a combination of:

  • A mix of short and medium length outdoor tasks which simulate the working environment and become increasingly more complex and time critical
  • On-task and post-task reviews which stimulate feedback and disclosure
  • Short theory sessions that teach Teambuilding concepts Individual and Team Action Plans

Contents:

  • How people learn. Creating a Learning Organisation. Learning Contracts
  • Managing personal energy. Combining individual energy to create Synergy
  • Action Centred Leadership. Balancing your 3 circles
  • Joharis Window. A constructive system of feedback and disclosure
  • Woodcock’s 4 stages of teambuilding
  • Belbin’s Team roles§ Constructing a TEAM SKILLS INVENTORY 
  • Transforming these into CHANGE GRIDS for return to work

Outcomes:

By the end of the
course delegates will
  • Accepted a learning contract incorporating trust, honesty, respect and mutual support.
  • Understood the quality of personal energy and how it combines to form team synergy
  • Be aware of how they divide their time and energy between task, team and individual needs
  • A method for analysing the stages of their respective work teams
  • Will know the main roles that they prefer to play in a team and those areas that they need to work on. 
  • Constructed a TEAM SKILLS INVENTORY and CHANGE GRID§ Been taught the concept of Johari’s Window and the value of disclosure, feedback and new experience
  • Been taught a structured method of disclosure, practised it and contracted to use it in the future 
  • Been taught a structured method of feedback, practised it and contracted to use it in the future 
  • Carried out two experiential tasks with subsequent reviews

Investment:

£225 per delegate day

Booking:

Phone: 01286 660330
Fax: 01286 660921
E-mail: info @ teaminternational.co.uk

Last Updated: 07/02/2007