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Some of the most intense team building sessions that we have had the privilege of facilitating, have happened when we managed to break through a glass ceiling of trust amongst the members, and people truly & openly spoke and shared some of their deepest feelings, fears, hopes, influences, apprehensions and achievements. Yes, we are true believers in the Power of a Huddle!

But over a period of doing many such workshops, one of the realizations that has slowly crept on us is that, much as we would like it, the magic that happens within a group of people huddling in conversation, often times does not happen automatically – it needs to be facilitated.
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Recently had the opportunity to go through the work by Shawn and Kevin Coyne, Brain Steering – A Better approach to Breakthrough ideas. Conventional brainstorming sessions in most organizations, end up being ineffective “tick in the box” affairs without yielding tangible results, mainly due to haphazard planning and poor facilitation. So what are some of the things you can do next time you have to conduct a brain storming session for your team?

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Never before has any single event transformed a nation of so many disparate cultures and colors under one color – Blue!!Yes folks, blue is officially the new black!! From ads exhorting you to bleed blue to having the Indian team picture posted on any blue surface worth noticing, there has not been any shortage of innovative ways to use the blue color during this world cup. Sport has been always been viewed as having the potential to unite people, a classic example being the brilliant movie on the World Cup winning South African Rugby team –
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Once a team is successfully built, each member will unleash their creativity and hidden potential and also generate ideas.

“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress and working together is success”
Team building is an opportunity to learn the art of blending individual brilliance and team excellence. Team is also about empowering each other and we achieve maximum success, when we work as a team.

When someone is leading a team as a leader it is important to inspire and motivate the members. Once that is done each member will unleash their creativity and hidden potential and also generate ideas leading to a successful implementation. It is important to build a culture of team synergy and bonding, to support one another to play as a winning team. Below I have mentioned a few kickers essential to lead a successful team: Continue reading “Team Building – Motivating Employees to Be Innovative”

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This article from McKinsey Quarterly looks at identifying some of the common issues that plague top management teams across organizations and also offers honest insights into actions that can kick-start the development of a good team at the top.

Organizations across the world have identified the importance of having a strong team at the top but fail to set down criteria for identifying key leadership talent and developing them once recruited as leaders.

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Recent times have seen the development of virtual teams across many organizations, owing to massive geographic expansion plans and clustering of specific competencies. During workshops conducted across the country, I have had the opportunity of observing team members of different organizations spread out across vast geographies. They did not possibly fit the bill of the conventional definition of a virtual team – the image coming to mind that of different clusters of individuals working across offshore/onshore locations in a software development firm. But organizations, with operations spread across a country like India with its cultural diversities are as much a virtual team as the former case.  We got a first hand experience of this, when we were speaking to team members in one particular location, whose manager happened to belong to a state which was as different from the team’s as could be, right from the language spoken to understanding of their roles! Such scenarios are becoming exceedingly common, and it becomes important to examine some of the things we can do better while managing these “virtual” teams as well, separated by distance and culture.  Below are some of my thoughts on the subject
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I recently had the opportunity to read the work by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman – “First Break all the rules: What the world’s greatest managers do differently”. The book is based on extensive research done by Gallup on measuring workplace effectiveness and how some of the best managers in the world handle their teams. The extensiveness of empirical research to arrive at the findings is evident from the sheer numbers involved, over 105,000 employees across 2500 business units in different industries!! I found the questions used as a “measuring stick” by the study exhaustive and very powerful even in measuring the effectiveness of teams in organizations.

First break all the rules - book

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Here are 12 of the most powerful questions that teams can use as a dipstick of where they stand.
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As a Facilitator, I find satisfaction in meeting clients, getting to know their objectives and translating them into Experiential Learning activities.

Facilitating an entire program is an invigorating, exciting experience for me, especially so when the team is able to meet their learning objectives and they shake our hands at the end of the day, saying: ‘Thank you so much – we had a great time!’

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AREAS OF INSIGHT:

  • Getting to  know team members better
  • Recognizing inherent strengths within the team
  • Respecting personal differences

OVERVIEW:

This is a very simple and interesting exercise to understand the different strengths that individual members bring to the team and designing a team charter. It is especially useful for senior teams, who might have reservations about opening up in a team building workshop.  This works best for small groups of up-to 10-15 people.

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