CREATING A HEALTHY TEAM ENVIRONMENT

A ONE AND HALF DAY TRAINING PROGRAMME

OVERVIEW

Traditional ‘team-building’ sessions where employees get together to perform activities like rope climbing and forming trust circles while useful do not achieve any lasting long-term impact. Studies show that the most benefit such traditional team-building activities have does not last longer than a 2-4 month period. To have a lasting impact, your team sessions need to have more depth. For starters, employees within your team need to develop genuine ‘vulnerability’ based trust with one another. The word trust here does not refer to the predictive sense of trust where we come to say things like ‘I have worked with him before, I know what he is like and I can anticipate what he will do next or how he will respond.” Rather, vulnerability based trust comes when people within the team implicitly trust one another enough to make statements like,

‘I don’t know the answer’

“I need help’

‘I made a mistake’

‘Can you help me on this, you are better in this area than me?’, or even ‘I’m sorry but what I did yesterday was wrong’

When people are able to be that transparent with one another, it changes the dynamic of an organisation completely and they learn to trust one another inherently. However, the leader needs to go first and must be prepared to walk the talk…

Once this is established, the organisation can then move on to address the second issue that can derail team success; and that is failure to communicate with clarity. Once clarity has been established, the next step involves over-communicating clarity. The final steps involves encouraging employees to work from a position of ‘strength’, where people are encouraged to work from an understanding of their unique strengths and to use this awareness to frame issues from a ‘problem’ focus to a ‘solution’ focused approach.

What You Will Gain From This Session

You will gain from a step by step methodical approach on how to: a) Cultivate an environment where team members implicitly trust one another to get the job done,

b) Create a team atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable addressing the difficult issues in ensuring that ‘buy-in’ and commitment is achieved;

c) Ensure your team members are all united behind a common and singular goal;

d) Understand each of your team members strengths and how to use this to the team’s maximum advantage;

e) Develop a mind-set where your team automatically moves toward finding a solution instead of dwelling over a problem.

Call us at 03-42669191 or email training@lshumancapital.com for a full training agenda and proposal