Team Building 101
Full Day Workshop
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
This workshop is aimed at basic foundational behaviors that are necessary for building great teams. Every individual working in a team environment needs to actively demonstrate some behaviors which we will be discussing in this workshop. Activities and tools in this workshop will help the participants understand and change their behaviors and bring context to their work.
2,27,500
Competencies Covered
- Trust & Respect for Diversity
- Communication
- Collaboration Mindset
- Shared ownership and Accountability
- Result Orientation
Module Inclusions
- 1 set of 5 Activity kits
- Facilitator Manuals
- Participant handbooks
- Facilitator PPT
- Access to online platform with AV guide
Workshop Requirements
- Team Size: 16-30
- Area: 20x20 Ft +
- Location: Indoors/Outdoors
- Total Duration: 6-7 hours
- Trust & Respect for Diversity
- Communicating for Results
- Collaboration
- Shared Ownership & Accountability
- Result Orientation
- Session Focus: In this module we take a deep dive into foundational aspects of Trust and Respect as ‘Mission Critical’ behaviours for high performance teams and we do so with 2 very powerful and engaging activities- Lean Up and The Value Continuum.
- Activity Connect: Lean Up & Value Continuum: Lean Up is an activity where the teams must work together to place rings on a pole with hooks. There are points corresponding to each of the hooks which are positioned at a fair distance from the start line. Each member takes turns to place the rings as high as he/she can, with the support of the team. There are also certain rules and constrains that the teams have to work with in this activity.
Value Continuum is a powerful activity that highlights the contours of diversity that exist within a team. The members of the team must place themselves at various points of a ‘U‘- shaped layout - The Continuum, depending on the degree of agreement to statements placed at the 2 ends of the ‘U’. These statements are designed to be seemingly divergent and will be placed on either sides of the layout. - Learning Connect: In LEAN UP as each member stretches out to do more and reach further, they realize that they are only as good as the rest of the team that enables them. How winning trust of the team-mates enables the person to stretch further is reverse engineered in conversation around specific behaviours that need to be demonstrated consistently to help win that trust.
VALUE CONTINUUM reveals the grey that is behaviour and personality and how differences affect opinions on everyday issues. This activity helps demonstrates the inherent diversity in a team that we may not acknowledge. And that people make opposing choices or have divergent opinions not because they want to but because they are just being themselves.
- Session Focus: Collaboration is about changing one’s orientation from only seeking help from peers to complete one’s tasks to offering help and enabling them first before expecting help from them. This session covers the elements likerespecting dependencies and Building Trusting Relationships, taking ‘Individual’ ownership and initiative and constantly aligning priorities with people who have a shared goal.
- Activity in focus: Human Matrix : In this activity, participants must cross over a maze of wooden blocks arranged in a matrix with 4 quadrants. The group is divided into 4 teams and they are each given a specific route covering 3 of the 4 quadrants. There are rules that govern how the teams may use the blocks and under what circumstances the blocks may be taken away.
- Learning Connect: The activity design establishes upfront the need to acknowledge and respect interdependence as the 4 teams try to reach their exits to complete the matrix, together. The learning for collaboration emerges when teams realise the impact of one’s actions on the team’s goal and how taking personal responsibility for the overall common purpose, is the key to successful collaboration.
- Session Focus: Collaboration is about changing one’s orientation from only seeking help from peers to complete one’s tasks to offering help and enabling them first before expecting help from them. This session covers the elements like respecting dependencies and Building Trusting Relationships, taking ‘Individual’ ownership and initiative and constantly aligning priorities with people who have a shared goal.
- Activity in focus: Human Matrix : In this activity, participants must cross over a maze of wooden blocks arranged in a matrix with 4 quadrants. The group is divided into 4 teams and they are each given a specific route covering 3 of the 4 quadrants. There are rules that govern how the teams may use the blocks and under what circumstances the blocks may be taken away.
- Learning Connect: The activity design establishes upfront the need to acknowledge and respect interdependence as the 4 teams try to reach their exits to complete the matrix, together. The learning for collaboration emerges when teams realise the impact of one’s actions on the team’s goal and how taking personal responsibility for the overall common purpose, is the key to successful collaboration.
- Session Focus: In this module we talk about how ownership differs from accountability. We also take a deeper look at what it means to be accountable as well as how does one take ownership.
- Activity in Focus: Traffic Jam: In this activity with simulated traffic jam, the teams have to workout a solution to move from one side to another of a layout using an empty space. The rules and constraints makes this activity a tough nut to crack!
- Learning Connect: The activity provides an opportunity for a deeper conversation around ownership towards a goal and the level of engagement & accountability the team members have towards a project or assignment.
Not allowing people to talk during the execution of the activity creates a situation which forces the participants to demonstrate ownership as there are no instructions to follow. The successful completion of the activity hence requires everybody to be fully accountable for their actions and simultaneously demonstrate ownership towards the results.
- Session Focus: This module is about getting your participants to understand the big difference between being good at what you do and getting things done. Using this module, you’ll be able to give your participants a clear understanding of what being Result Oriented means and how it is different from the ‘effort’ mindset and ‘task’ orientation.
- Activity in Focus: Magic Mat: In this ROI driven game, the participants must cross a marsh of sinking sand using special mats. There would be 2 sizes of the mats and each mat will have a cost associated with it. There will be points given to the team for each person crossing over to the other side of the marsh.
There are certain rules as to how the teams can handle the mats and the number of mats they can use - Learning Connect: The crux of the activity lies in planning and executing while keeping the result in mind as circumstances keep changing when mats are lost and bought. Teams must not just be focused on the task of getting across but also take overall ownership of the result and work with everyone in the team to make that a reality.
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