Team Building Skills for Managers

What is the premise for Bodhih’s workshop around “How to Build a Successful Team?”

A team building workshop can be an entertaining diversion where people get to know everyone across departments, a fun learning experience where team members learn how one function is dependent on another to achieve organizational success.

The actual test of these team building workshops is after team members return to office. The purpose of this training gets fulfilled only when people drive home the concepts learnt in the workshop and start applying the same at workplace. Team Building skills training can be a powerful tool in developing strengths, addressing weaknesses and creating a work environment where people work as a team taking full ownership of their roles having organizational goal accomplishment as an ultimate objective.

What are the common conflicts and behavioural observations that show up when team building activities are absent?

There are many kinds of common conflicts and rifts when team building activities are absent in an organization like – certain formation of groups that creates divisions within the team, Team members do not know one another, People shift focus to individual targets from team or organizational targets and lose flexibility and coordination, Poor communication causes slow progress and shock, People are not aware or do not realize the benefits of working as a team, Resistance to change which blocks effective performance and quality, Loss of confidence and enthusiasm within individuals and groups.

Bodhih’s workshop on building great teams targets various aspects of team working together, and practices of building your team in business.

Team building is a continuous process which strengthens when the team spirit enters the mindset of every employee. It can happen when team cohesiveness becomes a part of organizational culture.

At Bodhih, Team building Programs talk about understanding the concept (and details) of the Team building paradigm itself.

What does Bodhih’s program on Team Building cover?

Team building includes the role that communication plays in creating effective teams, the four stages of team blending, the various stages of self that engages in team dynamics, and the various kinds of conflict resolution techniques and negotiation styles.

Starting off with facilitator led presentation, Bodhih’s Team building program tackles the module on the role of communication that creates effective teams. Through group discussions, the learners get an overview of both verbal and non-verbal techniques and specifically on why non-verbal techniques matter. Through individual activity and insightful analysis (of non-verbal cues – repetition, contradiction, substitution, complementing, accenting) the participants appreciate that it is important to become more sensitive not only to body language and non-verbal cues of others, but also to your own.

Putting together a team is a lot like putting together jigsaw puzzles – and this is done well with verbal and non-verbal communication techniques

The session through role plays, further delves deeper into the other aspects of nonverbal communication – like facial expressions, body movements, postures, gestures and eye-contact, touch, space and voice. The essential takeaway is that non-verbal communication is something that cannot be faked but is important to drive towards authenticity.

Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles. This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the next session at the Team building process training –Blending In.

How to build a successful team is a systematic process of observing team energies right from when a team is formed.

This session uses class exercises, videos and facilitator presentations to detail out the elements that make up the four stages of team blending in. Participants reflect on their past experiences and relate to the concept sharing of Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing.

These four stages have distinct aspects of team members’ feeling, behaviours and the overall impact on team tasks and accomplishments. Through group discussions, the class arrives at various realizations that helps them visualise a team blending journey. Group activity is used for these realizations to be reinforced in the participant’s minds for future application.

At Bodhih, Team building skills program is a popular session that is part of a larger Leadership skills training suite.

The session draws richly from research done on management studies that focusses on Team building techniques and also cultural studies that talks about practices that helps and hinders team building spirit.

Building great teams is a matter of understanding how human behaviours work or oppose in a given context.

The heart of the Team building method lies in the insightful session that highlights the communication styles of various team members and the various balances that we experience across people: how direct or reserved they are, how openly they show emotion, and how readily they adapt. The module throws open the many problems that team formations often encounter – low trust, avoiding healthy disagreement, weak accountability and losing focus on results. Group discussions and activities, and debrief facilitated by the trainer, helps the group reflect, ideate and collate the combat strategies for the dysfunctional behaviour patterns.

How would you gain from Team building techniques workshop at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its Building team program along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the “how to build a successful team” skill sessions takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s Team building workshops comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long term benefits are to institutionalise Team building skills by embedding appropriate communication techniques including non-verbal behaviours and a deeper application of the strategies that make up the four team blending-in stages.

What is Bodhih’s promise on Team working together workshops?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Team building talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, how team members have embraced the power of superior communication skills through active listening, demonstrating understanding of conflict resolution through social behaviour and finally be able to visualise the success in cross functional teams.

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