Training & Workshops...

Teambuilding / Team Chartering

Teambuilding Workshop

This is a core module of the Supervisor and Leadership Development Program

Workshop PPP Statement

Purpose:

Participants will experience aspects of effective team work, explore characteristics of an effective team, learn about the stages of team growth, and understand leader responsibilities at each stage

Products:

By the end of this session, participants will:
  • Experience, through hands-on teambuilding activities, aspects of effective teamwork
  • Understood key communication principles
  • Analyzed several "real world" communication failures
  • Explored characteristics of an effective team
  • Understood the stages of team growth and leader responsibilities at each stage
  • Understood the concept of synergy

Process:

  • Topics: Essential characteristics of effective teams: people and task issues
  • Stages of team development and growth: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
  • Team effectiveness critique: self-scoring tool
  • GBRASS model for task accomplishment
  • Role of the team leader
  • Analyzing trust
  • Barriers to teambuilding
  • Characteristics of effective team members
  • Plus... 5-6 hands-on, highly interactive teambuilding activities with debrief and key learnings

Customized Team Chartering Sessions

Chartering ad hoc teams in targeted areas is one critical starting point in evolving a Lean culture within an organization. Change Partners has successfully conducted on-site chartering of Safety Teams, Communication Teams, Equipment Teams, Leadership Teams, Marketing Teams, Quality Teams, Training Teams, Continuous Improvement Teams, Human Resource Teams and various Ad Hoc Teams for companies such as Trus Joist Weyerhaueser, Alcan Sheet Products, Smelter Service Corporation and Power Partners, Inc. Change Partners also facilitates re-chartering sessions to help sustain or reinvigorate existing teams within an organization.

Team Chartering PPP Statement

Purpose:

To lay the foundation for a successful ad hoc team

Products:

  • Understanding of chartering process
  • Team member commitments
  • Team mission statement
  • Team name, logo and slogan/tag line
  • Team operating principles
  • Team roles and meeting logistics / meeting ground rules or code of conduct
  • Strategy list
  • Objective statement (strategy framing tool)
  • Action plan
  • Strategy timeline
  • Teamwork insights
  • A working knowledge of meeting tools

Process:

  • Individual, sub-group and full-group activities and discussions
  • Team exercises and corresponding debriefs
  • Facilitator-led teaching briefs