Team Building

We all understand the old adage ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts’.

Diversity can bring new ideas, great energy, collaboration and inspiration. In the right environment, trusting relationships are developed and team members embrace the challenge of raising their own standards to better support each other. High performing teams in this zone seem to roll on from success to success, maintaining a sense of vibrance and fun while simultanteously expanding their concept of what is possible.

How do teams come together?

Great teams are developed through a focus on the individual in the team context. Why? Because for the whole to be greater than the some of the parts, each member of the team must:

  • want to be there (beyond a payslip)
  • be excited by and feel part of the vision that defines their team
  • understand what the bigger game is and how they and the team contribute to it
  • feel they are supported in being the best they can be and have permission to innovate and excel, and
  • be able to articulate their unique contribution to the grander picture.

When team members reach this place, invariably they focus more on what they can give rather than what they can get.

The building blocks

The formula that allows a great team to build itself is relatively straight forward. Rather than focusing on the rules, rewards and penalties that will extract the right behaviours, the focus shifts to what is needed to unleash and bring together the talent that is within each team member. The foundations of this paradigm are:

  • a better understanding of behaviours and their impact (emotional intelligence)
  • a clear and common purpose
  • open and honest communication
  • trust (and an environment that promotes it), and
  • accountability

What do we cover in Team Building Programs?

Dare2XL tailors its Programs to meet your specific needs and concerns, built around the framework discussed. Training programs typically cover topics such as:

  • Getting leverage for change
  • Expanding possibilities
  • Focusing for success
  • Getting control of your internal state
  • Empowering ways of being
  • Identifying and releasing limiting beliefs
  • Problem solving through perspective
  • Communication, language and meaning – say what you mean!
  • Norms – a framework for trusting relationships, collaboration, innovation and accountability
  • Language – how you use it and what it says about you
  • Team purpose – clarity, mining for client needs and ‘fitting in’.
  • Setting goals, measuring what matters and creating team accountability
  • The team story – rites of passage, defining moments and aspirations
  • Finding your niche – your values, being in ‘the zone’, and changing the rules for your best game.

Through these processes and understandings, teams begin to build the environment that will enable them to flourish as a team and as individuals.

What will we do?

Dare2XL Team Building Programs build relationships between team members. The programs incorporate collaborative games, challenging tasks and encourage robust discussion between team members so that a new path forward can be forged together.

The programs are interactive and can involve:

  • Facilitated (robust) discussion
  • Individual exercises and reflection
  • Group visualisation
  • Group games and exercises (including providing frank feedback)
  • Developing a plan of action, and an accountability framework to ensure we implement what we learn.

What will change after completing the Team Building Workshops?

Combined with great leadership, teams use these tools to achieve radical improvement in their results, morale and customer impact. You and your team will leave the program with:

  • A better understanding of themselves, how they impact others and what they need to do to empower themselves and others (emotional intelligence)
  • An improved ability to manage their internal state and be resilient
  • Deeper relationships with each other
  • An understanding of each other’s unique ability to contribute
  • A team commitment for change
  • A roadmap to achieve superior results at an individual and group level.

You need help when…

Most of us have been in a team where the converse was true. Agendas, personality clashes, secretive and uncooperative behaviour, or simply an unwillingness to look beyond the boundaries of a job description, resulted in the ‘whole’ being a lot less than the ‘sum of the parts’.

To be a member of a team like this is disempowering. In a team that is internally competitive, concepts like sharing new ideas, stretching or expanding, trusting and relying on others, getting genuinely excited about work, all bring a sense of vulnerability. In contrast, these sorts of activities are actively encouraged, celebrated and rewarded in highly effective teams. If you know a team like this, we’d love to help.

Contact Dare2XL to book your Team Building Program now.

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