Team Building
“When planning my team building session, Vanessa provided me with structure and guidance to help me to get at the needs of my team. When facilitating, she customized her approach and developed ways to get at leadership competencies of all members of the team. She tailored interactive games to get us moving and having fun while learning about different leadership styles. Many members of my team approached me after the day to say that this was the best team building session they had ever participated in. As the team manager, I got the results I wanted and my team continues to benefit from the day.”
A team will make or break a department or organization. A team, like an individual, has its own personality, skill set, needs, perceptions, and desires. To function effectively, a team needs the cooperation, knowledge, competence, and commitment of each individual. A team needs to accomplish a number of goals:
- Create the opportunity to work together outside work, allowing participants to highlight their strengths
- Work through their weaknesses
- Uncover the key attributes that really define it as a team.
I will help you to create an agenda that takes you from hearing “Another meeting?” to “This looks interesting,” At the end of the session, you will hear “What a great day. When can we do that again?”
A team building session with me is always fun. When people are relaxed and having a good time, their mindsets are more open and creative and they are more willing to listen and not judge. My sessions are not typical team building sessions where participants simply play games.
While my sessions are fun, they encourage real learning that can be applied directly back at the workplace. Through initiatives, discussions, and group exercises, I encourage people to think differently, try new approaches to challenges, and come up with tangible strategies to adapt to changing environments.
When people have the time to think through situations, without feeling constrained by deadlines, pressures, and distractions, very powerful and insightful ideas and solutions emerge. All my sessions result in many outcomes:
- A new energy
- A clearer focus
- Practical strategies and solutions
- Most importantly, a stronger bond within the team
- Fun
“I first encountered Vanessa years ago as a middle-manager during a leadership training session. I was impressed with the course, the approach and the long-term positive impacts that the techniques continue to have in my life to this day. Our paths crossed again when I had been promoted to senior management and had been mandated with putting together a day and a half of teaming activities for a group of 40 people – middle to senior managers and our Client counterparts. Vanessa worked with me to put together suitable, interesting and fun learning activities. Two days before the scheduled session, one of my colleagues approached me and asked if his team and Client counterparts (another 40 people) could join our teaming session. Vanessa responded quickly by re-working the sessions. Needless to say, I felt there was a lot riding on this. The session was a roaring success. People participated and were engaged and had a great time and the objective of partnering with our Client was achieved.”
Here is a link to a sample team building agenda. It gives you an idea of how I can design a fun, informative and engaging day.
Contact me, and we can schedule a meeting at your office to discuss how I can help your team to go to the next level.