TEAM BUILDING
A team building course is about getting people to interact with each other. As a result the course is designed to teach the theory through practice. Every concept explained in the course is followed by a relevant exercise which a trainer can use to further emphasize a key point.
The course contains more than 20 practical exercises that a trainer can choose from to tailor the course based on the delegates’ needs. Delegates will have a chance to participate in exercises on subjects such as coaching, cooperation, problem solving, trust and emotional skills. The exercises include 12 optional activities which can be used to extend the course further or to focus on specific areas based on delegates’ needs. These exercises can be used to increase the bonding between team members through shared experience or collective problem solving. All exercises are exclusive to this course and each exercise has been designed specifically in line with a concept vital to the making of a successful team.
Training Duration: 3 days
Objectives:
By the end of this course, delegates will learn
• how to communicate with each other to get better results,
• how to think beyond the little details and think of the main objective,
• how to support each other using emotional skills and coaching skills to provide feedback and increase trust and reliability throughout the team.
Course Outlines
Day One
Ideal Teams
• What are the advantages of working in a team and why should you care?
• What are the three core management responsibilities and what does this mean for team members?
• What three elements should be addressed to avoid ending up with a dysfunctional team?
Team Life Cycle
• How teams progress over time?
• How quickly can teams go from one stage to another towards the ideal team?
• What are the ideal leadership styles for an ideal team?
Team Roles
• What roles can each team member take and how does this affect the rest of the team?
• What are the positive and negative qualities of these roles?
• What are the examples of these roles?
• What combinations of roles do you need to have in an ideal team?
• Which types of people are ideal for which types of roles?
Network Effect
• How to visualise a team’s communication channels?
• How to identify isolated, overloaded, under-loaded, critical and other types of members? What does this mean for a team?
• What are structural components of a team and how do they contribute to a team’s success?
o Management games & role plays
Day Two
Team Coaching
• How to systematically manage teams based on their maturity?
• How to encourage teams to solve problems collectively?
• How to increase a team’s efficiency using peer-to-peer and management coaching?
• What techniques to use to increase bonding, trust and professionalism in teams?
Creating team character
• Using principles, boundaries
• Making group decision
• Building customer relation
• Working with suppliers
• Holding effective meeting
• Goal setting and measuring results
• Giving and receiving and feedback
• Facilitating groups
• Team problem solving
• Tools for problem solving
• Planning for action
Team communication basics
• Building a collaborative team environment
• Managing team conflict
• Team member roles and responsibilities
• Managing team performance
• Setting team members
• Team leaders role and responsibility
• Being a living example
• Barrier busting
o Management games & role plays
Solving common team problems
o cultural problems
o team member problems
o team problems
o Problems between teams
o enterprise wide problems
o problems outside of the organization
o Management games & role plays
Day three
Creating wining team
o select your team carefully
o making time for your team
o setting Agenda
o Capturing team learning
o working with other teams
o Management games & role plays
Team Learning
o gathering information
o team learning comes from experiences
o Management games & role plays
Spreading team knowledge around
o replicating a team
o identifying and creating New leasers
When followers won't follow
o failure of vision, mission, execution, leadership
o lake of exercise of leadership
o Management games & role plays
Leading across culture
o leading in a diverse world
o emerging as a leader from a cultural group
o leading across international divides
o leading in the Virtual Age
o Management games & role plays
Teaching Methodology:
Theory 40%
Games & role play 30%
Exercises 10%
Team presentation 20%
Limitations:
No examination
Training results:
• Reduce dysfunctional individual conflicts
• Increase group efficiency
• Create warmly & peaceful environment
