Team Development Events with a Teambuild / Trust focus

Team building / Building Trust
Much as is said in the title, this type of event looks to build bonds between team members, to foster commitment, a sense of team identity and drive.

It can be a structured series of discussions, team exercises,followed by action planning. It would typically be one or two days, usually away from the work environment, with follow-up meetings to monitor implementation of action plans.

When would you use 'outdoors' teambuilding?
Ideally when you need to bring team interaction issues out into the open very quickly, and where the team members are enthusiastic about this sort of thing. Can be a great 'unfreezing' activity. Talk it through with an expert, who can recommend whether you should use this method or not.

An example of a team building trust and defusing conflict -

Case Studies: Building trust

The management team of a department booked a day with us to do some development work. It emerged early on that several members felt unwilling to bring certain staff issues to the group; they displayed far more trust within their individual teams than with other management team members. They began to build bridges by discussing what sort of 'ground rules' - particularly of confidentiality - should be established for the team. This enabled them to get into gentle discussion of some real problems for the whole department, allowing everyone to say how they would have been better resolved with more cooperation. Gradually, they managed to establish a mutually acceptable 'threshold' and list the sorts of issues that would be above this, and would be acceptable for everybody to bring to the management table. This was only the beginning of a development process, but a vital one.

Get in touch if you wish to discuss these methods further!