Basics of Team Building

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Consider the following statistics on retention. We retain:

“10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, and 30% of what we see,

50% of what we hear and see,
70% of what we say, and 90% of what we say and do.”

Basics of Team Building

Team Building is a process in which a work group examines how it is currently operating, identifies how it could improve its effectiveness, and implements the procedures and processes that enable it to get the job done in the best possible way. In this course, the participants will focus on how teamwork can impact positively on accomplishing tasks and on conflict resolution in work teams. They will define their roles in improving the quality of services/products that your company provides and they will build teamwork skills.

Participants will learn to

· Link team efforts to department or functional goals

· Recognize when a team is working well or not

· Use techniques for helping a team assess how well it is functioning

· Understand why people behave the way they do in groups

· Use tools that result in more effective meetings

· Create a plan for using the techniques they have learned on the job

Approach to learning

The participants will use a self-assessment exercise to better understand how they personally feel about working in a team, to recognize the issues affecting how people work together and how to handle conflict resolution in their work teams. Using their own experience, they create a tool and use it to assess the level of teamwork in their own areas. Through a series of group exercises, case studies, and role plays, they will learn a variety of techniques for making their teams more effective.

The Nature of Experiential Learning

Experiential learning is both exciting and challenging. It includes a range of different processes such as individual or team problem solving initiatives, physical challenges, games, simulation exercises, structured processes, sharing sessions, guided visualizations, and structured interactions. In all these events, students are actively engaged in the learning process and are able to generate meaningful, relevant insights from their experience.

The Nature of Experiential Learning has been defined as having four main characteristics:

The learner is aware of the processes which are taking place, and which are enabling learning to occur; the learner is involved in a reflective experience that enables the person to relate current learning to past, present and future; the experience and content is personally significant: what is being learned and how it is being learned hold a special importance for that person; there is an involvement of the whole self - body, thoughts, feelings and actions, not just of the mind. In other words, the learner is fully engaged as a whole person.

Examples of topics to be covered

· Improving team performance and the quality of our service/product.

· Characteristics of high performing teams: Key factors in team effectiveness

· Group dynamics: what happens in a group and why

· Strategies for improving teamwork: Leadership skills

· Problem solving in groups: directing ourselves to get things done

· Feedback: a key element in opening up communication

Leadership Training Courses

Mastering Leadership requires continuous attention to a number of complex issues. True leadership is strategic, not tactical; that is to say that leadership addresses long-term issues, not short-term crises. Effective leaders also find that all members of a team must be ready to play critical leadership roles, reinforcing the idea that leaders teach others to be leaders, not followers. And, successful leaders know that the needs of the group guide the techniques and strategies that leaders use to guide and facilitate the activities of the group.

Participants will learn to:

· To instill teamwork spirit among participants.

· To test participant's mental strength and self-endurance in achieving goals.

· To encourage participants to realize the importance of planning in implementing a project in order to ensure success.

· To inculcate the habit of adhering to rules and procedure and loving work at the same time.

Examples of topics to be covered:

Goals orientated programs that aim to improve:

Self-confidence | Ability to reason | Team Work | Problem Solving | Orienteering | Basic Survival Training | Cultural Knowledge | Religious Knowledge | Geographical Knowledge | Environmental Knowledge

Safety and Service

· Excellent Health & Safety and Safe Environments

· Access to Good Medical Facilities

· Excellent Service