Workshops

Innovative Teams

Making it happen in teams

Are you getting the most out of your people? Do you see the symptoms of team
ineffectiveness – dysfunction, internal bickering, turf battles, indifference, missing targets and ultimately, loss of revenue? Who are our role models in teamwork? What kind of payoff do we seek in our interactions with others, and how do we get it?

The number one reason why people don’t get along in teams is this: they don’t know how to. Yet we all know that in business, success is not a solo act. Although the very essence of organisations is to organise people working together, we are never actually taught to work in teams. We learn to work only as individuals, and team work doesn’t come naturally.

Let your people identify their roles in the team, and understand the roles others prefer to play. Let them build on this insight to create an effective team of professionals.

The Performa approach

This workshop teaches teamwork in a unique way by utilizing all three learning styles
(tactile, visual, audio) through experiential exercises, theory and reflection. It offers
participants an opportunity to undertake projects in teams and, under the supervision and feedback of our experts, it allows them to develop an understanding of how teams work in practice.

Our commitment to creativity and innovation is fully applied in this workshop. Creative
exploration and creative problem-solving form the basis of an approach which will stimulate the team to stretch its potential well beyond what the simple mechanics of teamwork allows.

Objectives
• Understand and develop the essentials of winning teams: trust, conflict-resolution,
commitment, accountability, results
• Learn how to deal with the causes of team ineffectiveness and the common pitfall-
misalignment of personal goals with those of the team
• Learn how to avoid the consensus that aligns all to the lowest common denominator
• Provide a framework whereby participants distinguish individual contributions to the team, and define their own contributions to the team
• Facilitate the creation of personal and group goal plans regarding team effectiveness

Methods
Group experiential projects, exercises and role-play. Theory is presented as a supporting background, and coaching provides feedback for the development of team effectiveness.

Click here to read about some of the challenges covered in the Performa workshops and what participants said about their experiences.

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"At the end of our workshop with Performa, not only did we emerge with new creative problem-solving skills, we emerged as a better, more dynamic, more cohesive team"

Kate Thompson,
Managing Director, Bearing Point

"Creativity enables people to think the unthinkable, do the undoable."

John Hayes & Patricia Hough