WORKSHOPS > TEAM-BUILDING TACTICS: Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts!
Teams are an inevitable and essential part of a productive, efficient and nurturing workplace. A bad team can prove toxic: in-fighting, rivalries and personal issues spilling over into the professional doman can seriously affect output and morale. A good team, meanwhile, can not only make work a positive experience for employees, but can lead to accomplishments and levels of productivity far in excess of those a group of random individuals could ever hope to attain.
Some of the issues this workshop explores:
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Maximise the greatest strengths of a group, and implement methods to ensure group harmony.
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Develop techniques to differentiate the 'personal' from the 'professional', and how to get group members to 'energise' each other.
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Understand the hidden dangers of teams - when and how can things go wrong, and how are these situations best avoided (the concept of 'groupthink' will be used as an example).
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Explore some of the defined rôles of a team, including difficult and un-cooperative group-members. How can individuals change rôles, and what strategies can be used to discourage 'typecasting' and 'stereotyping'.
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How can the situation be best managed when different teams need to work together? How can the 'in-group' / 'out-group' stalemate be best solved?
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Taking teams to the next level: brainstorming at work.
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Understand the concept of 'power' - what it is and what it's not.
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Developing the skills of delegation in team settings.
This workshop provides some of the latest research from a very diverse and dynamic field, and naturally complements the workshops offered on Office Politics and Diversity in the Workplace.
To schedule this workshop for your organisation, or obtain further details, please contact Dr Jason Cressey