How to Train your Team?

How to train your team?

Bodhih’s workshop on Team training through influence management helps participants to understand the underlying mindsets of their team members and ways to delay behavior through the iceberg model of wants-needs-motives. Bodhih’s Facilitator uses group activity, class presentations, and individual reflection activities to surface how participants can relate to real-world experience and bond with virtual team members across the globe. Team dynamics questions and that is followed by a facilitator debrief session.

Team training workshop takes into account all the basics that make best teams. Effective communication fits into the context of team management in today’s organizations and its relevance.

Bodhih’s Team training session delivers the multiple training and facilitation approaches that managers and trainers can take for team training activities. Through class presentations, individual activity and group discussions, Bodhih’s facilitator lays out the approaches – Presentation methods, Lecture, Audio-visual instructions, Hands on methods, On the job training, Self-directed learning, Apprenticeship, Simulation, Case Study, Business Games, Role plays, Behaviour modelling, Group building method, Adventure learning, Team training, and action learning.

All these approaches have their own specific strengths and weaknesses. They are used for certain purposes and also need certain degree of expertise to master. Bodhih’s facilitator explains the definition of each and through real world illustrations, brings out the nuances one by one. Participants make a note of the personal insights and the possibilities they can take back to apply on their teams.

Bodhih’s Team training program (on how to train your team) delves into the various communication styles and behavioural patterns that leads to enhanced team bonding. Through class presentations, learners are walked through the verbal and non-verbal techniques for effective communication. Scenarios and role plays are used to surface non-verbal communication cues like – repetition, contradiction, substitution, complementing and accenting. Class learners through video presentations, are instructed to pay equal attention to various body-language cues like facial expressions, body movements and posture, gestures, eye contact, touch, space and voice. Examples are given to build self-awareness to all these modes, so in a team building scenario, there is a greater understanding of a person’s current state of mind.

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 sessions at Team training –Blending In.

Through facilitator led presentations and group discussions, participants are familiarised with the four stages of team blending – Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. The team blending framework is brought to an application level, that is detailed out by the Bodhih’s Facilitator with corresponding characteristics from the multiple perspectives of feelings, behaviours and team tasks, across all the four stages of team blending.

Bodhih’s Team training workshop, next moves to the session on social styles and their effect on team building. Through role plays and class presentations, participants are sequentially exposed to analytical style, amiable style, expressive style, and driving style. Major identification and patterns are shared with the class for these four major styles. Each of these four styles lie somewhere in the continuum between Relationship shared Vs Task completion. The class comprehends that on the surface, each style is closely linked to whether an individual tends to assert himself or herself or respond to others in social settings, and whether he tends to display emotion or secure control in group settings.

At Bodhih, Team training course is a popular session that is part of a larger leadership skills training suite. The session brings latest research done on team building, team training and psychology studies done on team blending.

The heart of Bodhih’s Team training lies in the powerful session – the dysfunctions of social styles. Led through a case study, and also class presentations, participants are taken through the major challenge patterns as observed in performing teams across cultures and industries. These can be – absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results. All the five mentioned erratic behaviours are studied in brief. There are detailed notes that the participants can refer, along with the experiences that they gather in the role play sessions conducted in real time.
The session progresses through individual reflection and instructor led presentation that finally wraps the workshop with details on how to summarize and consolidate the personal insights, class observations, action plan and a note to myself that visualises future success.

How would you gain from India’s best Team training courses at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its Team training workshop 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 Team training process sessions takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s Team training 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 embed specific communication practices, blending team behaviours and multiple ways of training and facilitation styles.

What is Bodhih’s promise on Team training workshops?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Team training talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, demonstrating higher appreciation of diverse thinking and communication styles, aligning to the four stages of team blending, exhibiting higher self-awareness when it comes to behaving with a certain social style and simultaneously being cognizant of the dysfunctions intrinsic to all social styles.