Experiential Learning
Explore the critical components and advantages of active training. Hands-on exercises show how your participants can learn through doing. (Keynote talk)
EXPERIENTIAL TEAMBUILDING WORKSHOPS
Half-Day Session:
This hands-on workshop will help participants to identify team strengths as well as opportunities for improvement that are the foundation of ongoing teambuilding efforts. The 3-hour session will include the facilitation of the chosen survival simulation consensus activity for individual teams (up to four teams per session) or the Common Currency game to address interdepartmental teambuilding.
Full-Day Session:
This workshop builds on the half-day session by adding a 3-hour action planning segment that uses the identified team strengths and improvement areas as a basis for problem solving and continued teambuilding efforts.
WITHIN TEAMS:
Survival simulations
are excellent
tools for team building because groups experience first-hand the exciting
benefits of group thinking and decision making.
Within the context of a plausible but imaginary situation, team members
are free to learn real lessons about how their behavior affects others.
Working together to solve prescribed challenges, group members practice
vital skills that are reinforced through focused reflection and discussion.
These consensus activities demonstrate and teach team synergy, where the
whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Recommended team size is 5 to 7 participants, but as many as four work
teams can be accommodated per session. Select
one scenario from among the following activities:
Gather your pith helmet and go on a jungle survival adventure! Participants must reach agreement in this imaginary setting in order to succeed. They will learn why consensus produces the best decisions and how teams draw on synergy to strengthen their power. (Half-day or Full Day with extended Strategic Planning session)
Wander into the unknown of the frozen, forbidding landscape of the Arctic to spark synergy in any icy wasteland. Participants must reach agreement in this simulated journey in order to succeed. Teams find out if their combined force can exceed the power of any single team member. (Half-day or Full Day with extended Strategic Planning session)
Can you survive in the "Empty Quarter" of the Arabian Desert searching for the hidden mines of King Solomon? Participants will rank order 15 survival items to see if the team can perform better than any one individual alone. (Half-day or Full Day with extended Strategic Planning session)
Traverse the treacherous mountainside high in the Himalayas. Participants must arrive at consensus on a variety of scenarios in order to succeed and experience the magic of synergy. (Half-day or Full Day with extended Strategic Planning session)
Traverse three different ecological zones in Peru -- the dry coastal desert, the snow-capped Andes Mountains, and the tropical rainforest of the Amazon Basin. Participants determine choices of actions in a variety of situations to provide insight into the ability of a team to attain group consensus. (Half-day or Full Day with extended Strategic Planning session)
ACROSS THE ORGANIZATION:
It is important to understand that a blend of cooperation and competition is necessary to help teams strive to do their best. Generating a constructive competitive spirit that motivates individuals to maximize their contributions allows an organization to achieve its goals more effectively. Teams that interact across organizational functions must learn how to support a cooperative culture that signals to everyone that they are in this together and that they help each other accomplish goals, while supporting a sense of competition that sparks creativity and productivity. People must learn how to compete against the standards of excellence rather than against one another.
Common Currency: The Cooperative-Competition Game
Is it possible to practice the strategies of competition and cooperation at the same time? Yes! It's called co-opetition. Discover this fresh approach to individual, team, and organizational development. The game is designed to stress the importance of group interdependence as teams exchange information and resources in an attempt to become the winning country. (Half-day or Full Day with extended Strategic Planning session)
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