Team Building
Contents of PDF
The documentation contained in the PDF provides the framework for your team development efforts. Part of this program will be the audit instruments namely, the diagnostic team building exercise and the problem description team building activities, used to determine the problem, or problems, employees perceive as being barriers.
Not only will these be barriers influence teamwork, but they will also adversely affect productivity and hence job security.
The team building PDF contains 129 pages (A4)
NB. If you are in any management field or position, the content, especially the background material (on techniques and improvement process etc.) will develop and enhance your thinking, perhaps (and hopefully) for the rest of your career. It's that good. And it really works, countless tough assignments attest to this.
- The team building process overview
- Setting up the exercise and activities
- Conducting the 'health check' exercise and the activities
- Summarizing and tabulating the results, including SWOT sheets for each dimension / team building block
- Finding solutions to the problems or areas for improvement highlighted
- Selling to the team and management the improvement ideas and implementing solutions
- The Team Building Exercise
- Question sheet
- Individual employee summary sheets
- Team Dimension Summary Sheet
- For each dimension, a scores summary, and a SWOT section for team discussion, (as an aide to solution finding, after agreeing on the problems.)
- Trainer articles for each of the 9 dimensions / building blocks
- Supporting materials on the key stages to aide solution finding, decision making, overcoming resistance and 'selling' your recommendations.
The logical format will enable you to take a 'step by step' approach from one stage to the next, to the final outcome, an improvement in team performance and team cohesion.
Terms of Reference Document
A professional approach to preparation is essential and will save much time and effort in this and any other management project. To this end, included is a terms of reference document for you to use in your team building program. The more 'aforethought' you put into this document the more successful will be your team building efforts.
Full instructions are given, in order for you to complete this most important step. A well framed terms of reference document will considerably increase your chances of achieving the best possible solution, within the constraints placed on your team building project.
You will also find this document useful in all your other management projects.
To Summarize
The Team Building PDF will enable you to:
- Draw employees into the team decision making process through consultation and participation, in programed manor
- Through a programed sequence of activities and an exercise, have employees define the problems
- Allow employees to have their say on work issues and their needs
- Properly setup a program to address the issues raised
- Save money on expensive consulting fees, one 2 hour session using the team building exercise and the team building activities will yield the same information as any consultant at a fraction of the cost
- Develop solutions to issues
- Agree on mutually beneficial encompassing solution
- Get the mutually beneficial encompassing solution implemented
- Considerably improve your leadership skills
The Benefits of this Team Building Program
- Improves working relations by involving employees in an improvement or developmental process
- Yields a smoother running organization
- Improves resource productivity
- Achieves goal congruence
