Teambuilding, Experiential Learning and Development Programs

Experiential learning has been the key learning process throughout human evolution, as a discipline experiential learning has existed nearly as long as the average human has been learning through books. It easily crosses cultural, age and socio-economic boundaries and involves the whole person.

The fact that people learn through experience is easily accepted. The key is in ensuring that transference of the experience crosses into the participants’ work or home lives.

Experiential Team/Leadership Development Training and Teambuilding

Teamworks™ is a leader in experiential training and has been specialising in team building development and leadership training for some 20 years. Teamworks™ approach is different, fun and most importantly extremely effective.

Theory, discussion and facilitation in a high-energy learning environment are integrated with practical activities to ensure participants are able to apply their experience and learnings back to the workplace. Programs allow for personal reflection on the personal significance of participants individual and team behaviours and values.

Teamworks™ has a strong commitment to maximising participants’ learning from their development training experience, and to help them apply the lessons back in the workplace and home lives.

• Teamwork and Team Process
• Leadership
• Customer Focus (Internal/External)
• Learning Organisations
• Values
• Personal Growth
• Performance Enhancement
• Reward and Recognition
• Fun

Demonstrated Knowledge & Experience

Teamworks™ provide expert facilitation to ensure that there is a direct transfer of learning outcomes back to the workplace. A broad range of programs offers a variety of activities and challenges. These have been creatively refined over the years to nurture and enhance teamwork, trust, support and self-esteem.

Descriptions of Programs

Most of our programs are custom designed to meet the specific objectives of your business. The following program descriptions will give an insight into some of our more frequently used programs and team events. However, all Teamworks™ programs are tailored to suit your organisation's needs. We can arrange anything from a multi-day jungle trek, a surfing safari or a five minute conference energiser to pump up delegates between sessions. Our experienced consultants are happy to make suggestions based on your requirements or tailor a program to a very specific set of requirements – whatever your group needs, we can deliver.

OUR AIM: TO HELP YOU DECIPHER, EXPERIENTIALLY, THE “PUZZLE OF TEAMWORK".

Team Assessor

Assess your team. No need to travel. This program can often be conducted on site. Designed to fit into a 3 – 4 hour session, the Team Assessor uses action learning and experiential training models to help both participants and managers identify team and individuals’ strengths and weaknesses. A useful management tool that highlights areas for improvement or can be used to reinforce a workshop or conference theme.

Team Leader Development Workshop

This stimulating experiential development training program is designed to develop and promote essential skills needed by current and potential leaders. Theory, discussion and facilitation in a high energy learning environment are integrated with practical activities ensuring participants are able to apply their experience and learning back to the workplace. The programme allows for personal reflection on the significance of their individual behaviours and how it affects team behaviour. Skilled facilitators will work the group in this ‘hands-on’ workshop offering a unique opportunity to highlight, identify and apply theoretical leadership and team models providing practical demonstration of their impact.

Content:

• TIPS for Success (Team Initiative and Problem Solvers)
• ‘How to Build and Lead Championship Teams’ theory session
• Background discussion on Leadership versus Management
• Trust, support, communication matrix
• Discussional sharing of ideas and workplace experiences by course participants from different organisations
• Facilitated activity and learning debriefs
• Facilitated workshop designed to make a difference and increase learning retention by developing a personal leadership action plan for the workplace
• Forcefield analysis used to help implementation of the action plan.

Learning outcomes:

As a result of attending this program, participants should be able to:

• Identify and list the components that makes a ‘Championship Team’ and how this applies to their workplace
• Differentiate between the roles of leadership and management
• Develop a practical understanding of and apply methodologies to empower their teams
• Improve the quality of their leadership as well as identify weaknesses in their leadership styles
• Enhance their understanding of team dynamics and how to harness it.

TIPS For Success (Team Initiative & Problem Solvers)

Help focus on team and personal issues through the removal of the normal constraints of the workplace. Many of the games, trust and initiative activities are metaphors to the working team designed specifically to reproduce stresses that elicit behaviour patterns found at work. These patterns of decision making, application skills and team roles are examined through processing and debriefing discussions.

FUNN Games, Initiatives, & Warm-up Activities

These fun, wacky and sometimes bizarre activities are a great way to break the ice at a conference, to give people a wake up after lunch, or simply for some good FUNN and a chance to ‘get to know you’ better. Team games and activities include all sorts of props and will get people moving, shaking and having a good laugh together. FUNN means Functional Understanding Not Necessary! These activities are very simple, and great for helping groups have fun together.

The Adventure Challenge

This exhilarating course is designed and delivered to “break the ice”, build trust and support, encourage communication and cooperation, leadership skills and motivate participants to achieve something “out of their comfort zone”. There is a wide range of adrenalin rushes and confidence boosters, including the 120m Flying Fox, Mohawk Walk (Low Ropes Course), Pamper Pole (Ultimate Leap of Faith) and Brain-teasing games and initiatives (TIPS for Success). All this combines to create a fun-filled, action-packed day.

High Ropes Course

Modelled on, and expanded from, the successes of Project Adventure U.S.A., this is an excellent team and personal development facilitator. Individuals face large personal challenges climbing around our course of bridges and swings 10m up in the trees, whilst their team mates are fully responsible for maintaining the safety systems. Our professional instructors maintain close supervision, but the need to rely on others while pushing oneself is obviously stressed.

Mini Olympics

Fun and challenging for all. Large groups are broken into smaller teams and compete in ‘round robin’ fashion working against the clock in a series of timed tasks including; Holey Pipe, Trollies, Mine Field, Group Juggle etc. A fun and zany team building day.

Teamworks™ Challenge

Sends people on a journey where they face complex challenges, requiring teams to work in small groups achieving objectives and moving against set time limits. Participants must organise themselves into task orientated teams, through delegation and skill recognition. They learn their role in a team; their strengths and limitations, the essential ingredients to form a team and the rewards an efficient one brings. The challenge moves from small team initiatives to a large team strategic exercise, with multiple objectives and an overlaying time line. This is a fun yet demanding team experience for those teams wishing to extend themselves.

Earn As Much As You Can

Not your normal outdoor adventure program – on this one your feet are never more than one metre off the ground! A high impact day is created in the not-so-physical activities, through the use of engaging games and initiatives as part of an overall challenge to earn as much as you can. Groups earn credits by ‘playing the odds’ on their success through a series of TIPS for Success (Team Initiatives and Problem Solvers) activities. This motivational on-ground programme allows groups to explore and develop the power of team synergy. Small groups work independently on different initiatives to acquire plans, equipment and credits to ‘Earn As Much As You Can’ and become the champion team. Only when these smaller groups come together with a common vision are they able to go past competition and succeed as a cooperative team.

Site Central

Site Central is a team exercise that requires the management and administration of multiple team challenges simultaneously. Participants are allocated to roles of ‘manager’, ‘supervisor’ and ‘worker’, with the collective objective of maximising profit from these tasks. The exercise rewards continuous improvement, effective networking and negotiation, and a flexible approach to team management. This activity can be modified to closely mirror your own business and its operational structures, so that debriefing can accurately focus on relevant leadership issues. It is suitable for groups from all levels of organisational work, but is particularly relevant for:

• Intact work teams which include a number of management levels.
• Leadership development of supervisors and middle management.
• Organisations targeting cultural change, flatter management structures and self-directed work teams.

Diffuse The Bomb

You have three hours and the clock is counting down. Cryptic information is flowing in from your team in the field and the possibilities are narrowing down. You learn of the sabotage group and the other friendly competition, the strategy is changing, can the team keep pace and be the first to the deadly vile and the explosion set to wreak havoc on Margaret River and the Australian water system. The team will be pushed to its limit in its ability to self organise, adapt to a changing pattern of events, think critically and laterally with an oversupply of information, move decisively within set time parameters, negotiate with competitors and move against negative forces.

Sector Challenge

The team will be challenged to work as effectively as possible over two, one-hour shift sessions. You will have the opportunity to tackle a number of TIPS (Team Initiatives & Problem Solvers) activities earning points for your level of success in each. The better you perform as a team the more points you will earn. The TIPS activities have been established in a number of geographically separate sectors. Your objective is to complete as many of the TIPS activities as possible in the time available and to maximise profits and develop your team.

Rottnest Safari Challenge

A group problem solving exercise requiring team work and strategic planning. Construction tasks, navigation exercises, mental problem solving and fun activities come together in a mythical scenario to enhance team spirit, awareness, co-operation and communication. This event can be videotaped by a professional enabling the group to reflect on the day and have a memento of the event. Challenges may involve your team working in a tunnel, at the beach, on the water, in the forest or setting up a complex sequence of events to complete one of the activities in the Safari Challenge.

Abseiling

Exposes people to an extreme level of perceived risk, and demands that they trust and communicate with others. Whilst the real risk level is kept very low by the use of the latest safety equipment and instructional techniques, it encourages people to embrace risks. People leave with greater self-confidence, expanded personal horizons, and with a feeling that, '...if I can abseil, I can do anything!'

Caving

Exploring a series of magnificent caves often pushes people to their limits. After abseiling or walking into the cave, participants travel 'solo' to meet their team mates. Using minimal light, the team is directed through the narrow confines of the cave, where crucial team issues such as communication, delegation, trust and utilisation of resources must be addressed to be successful. Team effectiveness is highlighted, and the issues obstructing it easily identified for future discussion.

Canoeing

Canoeing trips are the perfect reward for a group’s special contributions and efforts. The journey can be relaxing or more adventurous, depending on the group’s needs. Whether it’s the tranquil glass waters or the fast flowing white water, you can rest assured with our trained and experienced guides. A canoeing trip can be coupled with a series of team challenges and may include; sections of navigation and bushwalking. Groups may choose to experience an overnight wilderness adventure – a camp fire is one of the greatest ways to bond team members.

The Amazing Rat Race

Two parts urban adventure race, one part treasure hunt, one part popular reality show and ten parts FUN. The Amazing Rat Race is a cost effective way of entertaining large groups and ideal for both team building and hospitality based objectives. With The Amazing Rat Race, we have created an exciting and playful event that is also a sophisticated and challenging business development simulation.

Building high performance teams at work is a Challenge, so just how do teams get off to a good start? How do they strategically plan? How do they access the knowledge and skills of their team members? How do they communicate effectively - so that everyone has a say and everyone is heard?

These are just a few of the questions every organisation must answer on its road to harnessing the power and the diversity of its people.

During the Race, you will actively turn teamwork into results - learning new team techniques for reducing errors, increasing production, inspiring innovation and boosting your bottom line, and you will do this while using the power of observation and communication, solving mind-boggling puzzles and overcoming various mystery challenges.

Everyone has fun, but at the end of the event you are right back where you started. By contrast, The Amazing Rat Race is an engaging and energetic business development tool. All our efforts are geared towards helping you achieve greater understanding of your business challenges and generating a deeper dialogue about how teams can increase productivity.

Mystery Challenge

The program unfolds in a shroud of mystery and intrigue. Participants must put the clues together to obtain the information they need to find the ‘Lost Wisdoms’. The group solves problems and undertakes various exercises requiring team work and strategic planning. Construction tasks, navigation exercises, mental problem solving and fun activities come together in a mythical scenario to enhance team spirit, awareness, co-operation and communication.

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