Team Development Training Bart Allen Berry

Work Team Development Programs

"This is the best team development program we have ever participated in"

Chris Hynes - Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical

Our Teamwork Programs blend team assessment, experiential problem solving and decision making exercises and teamwork fundamentals with high energy shared experiences for a powerful and memorable program designed to create results back at work.

Our emphasis with our team building programs is to merge business best practice learning and team building fundamentals with real experiential practice of working together - trying new teamwork skills on for size.

A wide range of subjects are explored including communication, planning, participation, problem solving, involvement and team leadership. We have over 65 team exercises that we can choose from and adapt the program and learning the specific needs of the group.

We Offer 2 Team Building Program Options:

NEW TEAMS - One Day Team Building

New Teams can accelerate their productivity by investing in a one day facilitated session where they practice working together:

> Increase connection and familiarizations with one another

> Learn to apply great teamwork behavior as an intact work group

> Increase individual awareness and skills as an effective team player

> Discover and demonstrate new capabilities as a work group

> Bypass typical landmines and mistakes during early stages of team formation

> Get up to speed faster and release the potential of the work group

> Have fun together and create a positive team culture for the future

This is a very worthwhile investment in your people in the first weeks or months of their formation as a team.

The full day team building program is idea for an intact work group, or several departments that need to be better integrated together. These include some didactic ‘ideal state for the team’ framing, teamwork fundamentals training, experiential exercises, Teamwork Behavior Inventory Self-Assessment and learning summary contract for how they will work together in the future.

Program held at your location or any offsite environment - ideally with an outdoor area for some exercises or a ballroom for some of the larger exercises - runs from 8am to 5pm with a working lunch. Groups sizes from 8 to 100.

The Full Day Program is a great teamwork fundamentals primer with an emphasis on bringing skills back to the workplace and creating a strong teamwork cultural dynamic.

Two-Day Intact Work Team Program

Teams with a lot of 'water under the bridge' and a longer history together often have more complex set of issues that need delicate unravelling, before team members are ready to re-commit to a higher level of performance together.

This two day experience leverages an in-residence, in depth interventional process where improving teamwork and moving to high performance is the main outcome. Our Teamwork Survey For Workgroups (50 question anonymous teamwork audit) is used to give voice to shared concern and identify teamwork issues in the way of a full diagnosis of the strengths and weaknesses of each team. This help us tailor specific exercises and activities to address specific issues within the team.

In addition to experiential exercises and high adventure components, there is also a very powerful peer feedback component, an in depth organizational simulation to integrate teamwork learning’s and a full action planning sessions with improvement planning and improvement teams chartered with creating results back at work.

What makes the two day program so powerful is that each team pre-identifies the specific measurable processes back in the workplace that will be positively impacted by better teamwork – driving the focus of the entire program to not only better team member relations, but organizational performance as well.

Got a tough team? Have aggressive goals together?

This is the Team Development program for you.

This program is ideally delivered in a two day residential setting at an offsite location of your choosing. The unfamiliar environment out of work helps teams relax and focus solely on teamwork without distraction or interruption. The Anonymous Teamwork Survey is administered online before the offsite with results prepared as part of the first phase of the program.

Teams participate in facilitated exercises, discussions and increasingly complex challenges together that require them to function with higher and higher levels of teamwork. While fun and interactive, each activity and exercise has specific objectives for increasing team performance.

A Powerful Peer Feedback process helps individuals recognize specific teamwork behaviors that might be holding them back and gets to root issues in a safe non-confrontive way. Team planning sessions at the end of the program see the intact work team making specific commitments to how they will work together better to increase their performance, satisfaction and level of excellence.

Our programs have been administered to many of the world’s finest companies, government, military and entrepreneurial startups. We have worked extensively with manufacturing, electronics and engineering groups of all kinds. We have provided training for more than 200,000 employees and managers. Our experience of over 30 years of operating multiple training centers, international work and experience working make our firm a great resource for you here in North America.

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