High Performing Teams with a Challenging Activity

 

Objectives

• Identify and demonstrate qualities of high performance teams.
• Assess the extent to which the team measures up to these qualities.
• Develop a plan to build on the strengths and compensate for the weaknesses of the team.

Day 1 Morning Outline

• Activity followed by small group discussion to benchmark characteristics of a high performing team.
• Build a group definition of performance, interactions and processes that contribute to a high performing teams’ success.
• Self-evaluation of team attributes.

Day 1 Afternoon Outline

• Challenging Physical Activity
• Incorporate rating system into challenges that allows small groups to evaluate their effectiveness.
• Summarize what the team learned during the challenge and conceptualise using the iZone Team Development Model

Day 2 Morning Outline

• Introduce Problem-Solving Model and review problem-solving processes used in activities from previous day.
• Participate in an interactive problem-solving challenge using the model as a guide.
• Tabletop exercise that shows different modes of decision-making.
• Brainstorm in small groups the appropriate use of each decision-making mode in the work environment.
• Develop action plan to build on skills practiced throughout the workshop.