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Interpersonal Skills

This is a step by step guide to understand and apply the principles of team building, interpersonal skills and motivation theories to achieve high performances.

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Interpersonal skills training helps team members communicate, collaborate and handle friction so they work better together. It applies team-building, interpersonal and motivation principles through business games, role-plays and team challenges, ending with a team charter. Bodhih runs it as a 1-day workshop for an intact team or three 2.5-hour virtual sessions, plus a 60-day charter review.

  • Delivered in person at your location or as live virtual sessions
  • Designed with the ADDIE model and evaluated for behaviour change
  • Offered by Bodhih since 2008 to 2,000+ organisations across 7 regions

Where and how: interpersonal skills training as an in-person workshop in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Jaipur; as a live online course; or delivered overseas in Dubai, Singapore and across the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

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I to WE, team work, team building, interpersonal skills

I to We workshop is a step by step guide to understand and apply the principles of team building, interpersonal skills and motivation theories to achieve high performances.

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What are the benefits of working in a team? What are the principles of teamwork motivation? What are the rules of teamwork success?

Bodhih’s workshop on teambuilding “I to WE” tackles all these questions.

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What is the importance of Bodhih’s I to We training workshop?

I to We training workshop is a combination of the team bonding skills, communication and motivation principles that translates to superlative team performance. ‘I to We’ workshop is about the process of enabling a group of people identify and reach a set of specific goals. The importance of the team building workshop lies in the clarification of team goals, identifying issues that inhibit teams from reaching their goals, and taking proactive steps to address issues, and remove inhibitors till the time goals are achieved.

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Why is teamwork important?

Participants that attend Bodhih’s I to We workshop would appreciate that high- performing teams exhibit accountability, purpose, cohesiveness and collaboration. The team members not only share expectations for accomplishing group tasks, but trust and support one another and respect one another’s individual differences. Successful team building events not only bring people closer together, but they also lead to more successful and creative workplace ideas.

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What are the goals of Bodhih’s I to We training program?

Bodhih’s team bonding training workshop focuses on transforming people’s behaviour for the long run and change how they perceive and perform in teams. Bodhih’s workshop brings teams closer and increases the overall effectiveness of the teams through a host of games and team activities. No matter how stressed the team was before the training, post team building training the team is highly energized and motivated. The best part is that they also leave with the science to maintain this energy and motivation in the long run.

Teamwork success depends on identifying the core competencies that show up the weak links in team and prevent it from achieving success that it is capable of.

Bodhih’s workshop on team building uses tools to throw light on forming habits of self-endowment to take responsibility, boosting initiative, responsibility and behaviour, advanced techniques of goal setting, and continual improvements in accountability.

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What are the learning outcomes from Bodhih’s I to We training workshop?

Bodhih’s workshop on team bonding skills is targeted on using communication skills to keep teams together, enhance productivity by building strong teams, dealing with barriers to creative thinking as a team, Using team bonding as a means to enhance leadership skills and Setting definite goals.

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What are the key focus areas for Bodhih’s I to we workshop?

The focus areas that Bodhih’s facilitator brings alive with class presentations, videos, management games, workbook activity, and group discussions and individual reflection are – improves morale and leadership skills, finds the barriers that thwart creativity, clearly defines objectives and goals, improves processes and procedures and finally, Improves organisational productivity.

Bodhih’s program on team bonding strategies begins by sensitizing participants to who is an ideal team player, the interpersonal dynamics in a team, and generating team synergies.

With the help of a facilitator led presentation and class discussion, learners unravel the significance of inspiring the team. Learners use real world examples to delayer the team purpose, the difference between solving Vs selling, innovation Vs ideation, and the importance of respect and recognition. Bodhih’s facilitator with a team exercise, establishes the premise of how when team members feel inspired and motivated, they are more likely to work together.

The key components of team bonding skills workshop are explained within the module –managing group dynamics.

Through individual activity, group discussion, videos, and facilitator led presentation, participants are coached on the interaction between different peoples of the team. Through the two class games – broken squares and Lost on the moon – the participants learn ways in which team members can be motivated and inspired.

Bodhih’s facilitators, expose learners (through videos) to the different techniques of building flexibility, trust and transparency. Facilitator led presentations underscore the qualities of authentic relationships that are the of prime importance when building resilience and longevity in teams. The class joins the dots between trust, authenticity and long-term meaningful relationships that drives team success.

In the I to We workshop, Class participants’ role-play multiple scenarios to understand the barriers and threats to team bonding. Along with Bodhih’s facilitator, the group brainstorms to find out how they can combat personality-triggered conflicts at the workplace with success. In Bodhih’s team building strategies workshop, the tenured facilitator through real world example and videos, highlights techniques of unity during certainty and interdependence drills. Learners work through a case study anchored on the lessons of working together in times of “natural disasters” and retain individual and group goals through tough times.

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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 session at I to We workshop – One team strategy.

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Bodhih’s workshop on I to We deep-dives into work effectiveness by appreciating the power of motivation.

Through class activity, and personal reflection, learners build practical day to day techniques that will help them translate disconnected individual input into meaningful group output.

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At Bodhih, team building program is a much sought-after session that is part of a larger behavioural skills suite.

The session brings latest research done on team bonding strategy, and best practices sourced from the renowned training and developmental studies across the world.

The heart of Bodhih’s interpersonal skills program lies in the powerful session of consolidating learnings through customizing the principles to individual use.

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How would you gain from interpersonal skills and team bonding program at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its team building techniques 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 I to We program takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s team building workshop comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights that ensures interpersonal skills and team building techniques are grasped and applied by chosen individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise skills by embedding an understanding of group dynamics, communication styles, and discerning respect and recognition in terms of team bonding.

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What is Bodhih’s promise on interpersonal skills and team bonding skills courses?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on team bonding techniques talk about enhanced abilities to build team synergies, and advanced techniques to infuse resilience and accountability along with flexibility.

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Sample training plan: 1-day hands-on design

This one-day 'I to We' workshop moves a group of capable individuals towards working as one team. It is built on experiential games followed by honest debriefs that link each game to real work. The team solves a silent puzzle that only works if people give pieces away, ranks survival items alone and then together, builds a bridge with limited materials and clashing briefs, and practises handling personality-driven friction. The day ends with a team charter on goals, roles, recognition and how conflict will be handled.

85% hands-on practice6.8 contact hoursCohort: 10–30 participants from one team or project groupIn person · Live virtual
Day 1From I to We

The team can see how its habits help or hinder it, practise new ways of working together and agree a charter to sustain them.

  1. 09:30–10:00Silent line-upEnergiser
  2. 10:00–10:45Do we share the same goals?Diagnostic
  3. 11:00–11:45The silent puzzleGroup challenge
  4. 11:45–13:00Stranded in the Western GhatsBusiness game
  5. 13:45–14:45Friction without falloutRole-play
  6. 15:00–16:15Capstone: the bridge buildSimulation
  7. 16:15–16:45Recognition roundFeedback round
  8. 16:45–17:30Our team charterAction planning
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Every session’s activity, timings, outputs and materials, plus pre-work, a 90-day reinforcement plan and how impact is measured. Free, emailed to you instantly.

Recommended: 1 day in person (09:30–17:30) for an intact team, or 3 × 2.5-hour live virtual sessions with online team challenges, plus a 60-day team charter review. A sample design: every Bodhih program is customised after a short needs analysis.

How long is interpersonal skills team training?

The recommended design is one day in person, from 09:30 to 17:30, for an intact team, followed by a 60-day charter review. It also runs as three live virtual sessions of 2.5 hours with online team challenges. An offsite version can add outdoor activities.

What activities are included in interpersonal skills team training?

The team lines up in silence, compares its understanding of team goals on a wall, solves a silent puzzle where pieces can only be given away and ranks survival items alone and together. The capstone is a bridge build with split briefs and a changing client requirement, followed by a signed team charter.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is interpersonal skills training?
Who is the Interpersonal Skills program for?

Professionals and managers who want to communicate with clarity and impact. Bodhih tailors the examples, case studies and depth to your industry, culture and team level.

How long is the Interpersonal Skills program?

Bodhih recommends 1 day in person (09:30–17:30) for an intact team, or 3 × 2.5-hour live virtual sessions with online team challenges, plus a 60-day team charter review. The length can be shortened or extended after a needs analysis.

Can Interpersonal Skills be delivered online?

Yes. Interpersonal Skills can run in person at your location, as live virtual sessions for distributed or hybrid teams, or as a blended journey that adds self-paced learning on Bodhih.org between sessions.

How is the impact of Interpersonal Skills measured?

Success measures for Interpersonal Skills are agreed with you before design, as part of the ADDIE model. Bodhih can add pre- and post-program assessments on AssessAll and manager check-ins to track behaviour change.

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