Feb
22
Team Building - a quick guide
February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
What is Team Building?
The key objectives of any team building activity are:
- Clarify the collective goals
- Identify the inhibitors that prevent the team from reaching their goals and remove them
- Put in place enablers that assist them
- Measure and monitor progress, to ensure the goals are achieved
To work effectively as a team you need agreement on exactly what sort of team you are: what are the goals, what is each member’s role, who needs to work closely with whom, what should the game plan be? Sometimes it’s as simple as learning more about the people you work with, and sometimes it’s complicated, such as working through entrenched difficulties or defining how a long-distance team communicates.
A tailor-made team building event allows you to do this by taking some time away from the workplace to slow things right down. Through discussion, brain storming, game play, role play and goal setting, you can sort out problems, put forward new ideas, plan the future, look at the team’s purpose, vision and mission and learn more about each other as people. Subsequent to a team building event team members will enjoy a fresh perspective, achieve a sense of focus, build confidence and prepare for the real “game” ahead. This is why many business attribute team building to be a very important part of management and training.
Research shows that a team building event has a positive effect on the motivation, confidence, morale, and effectiveness of the team and its individual members that immediately transfers to the workplace.
Each team building event is created from a specific brief and is tailor-made by working closely with your company to ensure the most appropriate programme.
Other more traditional techniques often address the inhibitors to collective performance: relationships and communication. However, if a group is only a group, then the benefits of such techniques may be limited. At best, there may be no need to resolve relationship problems.
Team building events are designed to help create and nurture successful, professional, productive and motivated teams.
Jan
29
A Business Coach - how can they help your business?
January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We have come across Chris Kaday, a business coach and business mentor, with an enviable profile and reputation.
Chris’ website is packed full of information about how business coaching / business mentoring can help you develop and improve your business.
Chris writes …
‘As a business mentor and business coach I am constantly amazed at the number of companies who come to me with only a vague idea of what they want to achieve in their business. They often have no specific targets and most important of all, no plan on how they will grow the business over say the coming year. You will only be successful if you plan to be successful and such a plan need not be complex or difficult to produce. Just setting out the revenues you require as compared to the previous year and some simple steps on how you are going to achieve them is a good first step. It is also important to identify the barriers which are holding back your growth and have identified some good ways of overcoming them. The main requirement is for this to be in writing, not in your head, even a couple of pages will do. Imagine getting on board a ship piloted by a captain who only had a vague idea in his head of how he is going to cross the ocean instead of setting his course using some clear charts. He will be even more vulnerable if a storm comes up which might well be the case in the current economic climate.’
Find out more about Chris’ website -> Business Coach Chris Kaday
