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Team Building

Duration: 1 or 2 days

Overview

This course is designed to enable delegates to strengthen team bonds and develop an understanding as to the benefits of good teamwork. Managing people and creating a team ethos to achieve desired objectives are crucial elements of any Manager's success.

Key Learning

• The nature and characteristics of a successful team
• Understanding team dynamics
• 10 team building activities
• Communication skills
• Managing team and individual performance
• Delegation
• Motivation
• Team reviews

Please note that I am able to facilitate a number of team building activities that can be structured around a meeting or dinner, these activities last between one and three hours

Please note that  Myers Briggs and Belbin Team roles can be used as part of the Team building process.

A team role as defined by Dr Meredith Belbin is:

"A tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way."

Meredith’s work at Henley Management College identified 9 clusters of behaviors – each of which is termed a team-role. Each team-role has a combination of strengths and allowable weaknesses.

When you complete the Belbin® self-perception inventory you will receive (among other reports) a ‘fingerprint’ of your preferences for each of the 9 Team Roles. You may find that you have 3 or 4 natural roles which you can use appropriately depending on the current situation. Very few people display characteristics of just one team role.

The value of Belbin® team-role theory lies in enabling an individual or team to benefit from self-knowledge and adjust according to the demands being made by the external situation.

As Belbin® Team Roles describe a pattern of behaviour this fingerprint isn’t fixed as many factors influence how we behave – for example a change in job. Ideally you should re-complete a Belbin® self-perception inventory as you progress through your career. Each Belbin® report is only a snapshot of your behaviour at that one given time.

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