As you know, successful teamwork rarely happens without the right kind leadership and process in place.  We help your teams work better together through improved communication, clear decision making steps, having the ability and confidence to have difficult conversation and most importantly deliver better results the right way.  We understand the challenges of developing teams and the blocks to good teamwork.  We can support your team’s effectiveness at each stage of team development, by enhancing group dynamics, interpersonal communication, and trust.  Depending on the team challenge,  we use a variety of tools such as the Drexler Sibbett team performance model ,the forte team pulse and well as Belbin and the five dysfunctions of a team model

  • We work with all team levels — C-suite and executive teams, mid-level teams, and new employee teams, cascading through all levels your core values, desired competencies, organizational priorities, and leadership commitments.
  • We design and facilitate off-sites for your team to improve team function, plan strategically, and innovate for mission success.
  • We work with individual team members as well as the whole team.
  • We coach your team leaders to lead the team to excellence.
  • We provide team coaching services to help intact teams leverage their strengths and address team breakdowns and derailers.
  • We coach the coaches – the executives who are in charge of keeping multiple teams running effectively and adding value.

Testimonials

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Mark Henderson

Director, Oil and Gas at Stockdale Securities Limited

“Simon provided an excellent, relevant team-building and management training programme for me and my team at Credit Suisse. He was very well prepared and made the day interesting, informative and enjoyable. Very professional.”

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Neil Meyrick

Director Leadership Development at Dell

“Simon is an expert facilitator, trainer and engaging storyteller. Dell has used Simon and his team on many occasions to deliver eye-opening and meaningful workshops and classes that have a had a real and positve impact on managers across the organisation.”

Team Building Exercises

The action learning activities we utilise offer a team fun and engaging ways to learn and practice the skills of teamwork. The format we use is highly-participatory and interactive. Participants in our team building programmes find the experience enjoyable as well as educational. We focus on creating an inclusive atmosphere where all members of a group, regardless of ability, feel comfortable participating in our programmes.

Team Building Facilitation

Team exercises are fun and memorable – but meaningful learning will only take place when combined with effective facilitation which guides participants towards seeing, recognising and understanding the patterns of team dynamics and processes that affect their teamwork.

A team building facilitator can greatly improve the effectiveness of your corporate team building event. After each task there is a structured review session (the length and depth of these reviews is determined during the design of the programme with you) during which the group is encouraged to examine their actions, behaviours and the process by which they tackled the task.

  • Team building activities are accompanied by debriefs, brain storming sessions and group work so that participants recognise learnings and apply them back to the workplace.
  • The advantage of this process over traditional methods of learning is that the teams and the facilitators can quickly see whether there was success or failure and what behaviors contributed to the overall team result.
  • From senior management teams to sports teams, Simon has the experience and knowledge to develop and deliver a suitable programme for each specific group’s needs.

Simon will work with you prior to the team building event to ensure the training objectives are met. Choosing the right set of team building tasks and models and the appropriate level of reflection and discussion will ensure that the experiential learning programme is designed to be great fun and relevant to your team’s specific training needs.

Our approach to building teams is multi-dimensional. Some workshops and team building programmes are simply aimed at teams bonding or understanding the nature of common team building objectives such as communication skills, trust, creativity or problem solving. For others an appropriate team building programme may address diversity issues (i.e. cultural, gender, social), leadership training or team inductions through more in-depth analysis and application to the work environment.

At either end of the spectrum of team building programme design, our experiential learning workshops can add tremendous value to the effect of team building processes. And a process it is! Unfortunately, there is no magical answer; no secret that once revealed will instantly transform the team. We realise that team building is not instantaneous; it is a process and a journey of self-discovery.