TEAM BUILDING

Course Overview :

Team building is a philosophy of job design in which employees are viewed as members of interdependent teams instead of as individual workers. Team building (which is correctly spelled with two words) refers to a wide range of activities, presented to businesses, schools, sports teams, religious or nonprofit organizations designed for improving team performance. Team building is pursued via a variety of practices, and can range from simple bonding exercises to complex simulations and multi-day team building retreats designed to develop a team (including group assessment and group-dynamic games), usually falling somewhere in between. It generally sits within the theory and practice of organizational development, but can also be applied to sports teams, school groups, and other contexts. Team building is not to be confused with “team recreation” that consists of activities for teams that are strictly recreational. Team building can also be seen in day-to-day operations of an organization and team dynamic can be improved through successful leadership.

Prerequisites

• Anyone who leads a team or is part of a team, teams attending as a group to improve their methods of working together and improve the teams effectiveness.

Course Content

Day 1

• • • Introduction
    • Investing in Teamwork
    • Team building
    • Planning
    • Structure
    • The common goal
    • Team Goals
    • Action plan re Goals
    • Assessment of Team Effectiveness

Day 2 

Team Management

• • • Establishing Team Rules
    • SWOT analysis
    • Building on individual Strengths and improving weaknesses.
    • Motivation
    • Delegation
    • The individual within the team.

Communication

• • • Oral, written and visual
    • Within and out with the Team.
    • Establishing Roles within the team
    • Class workshop

Day 3

Characteristics of a Team

• • • Awareness of unity
    • Team Creativity
    • Team Decisions
    • Interpersonal team relationship

Problem Solving

• • Methods and techniques
  • Resolving issues
  • Course summary and close