Improve communication and collaboration between team members, increase the level of group cohesion and positive energy, get to know each other better (if a new team, or new members), generate an action plan for improving team dynamics.
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is driven by your team's particular needs, struggles and goals.
Below are some ''ingredients'' we might use in the custom-made recipe for your team.
— Patrick Lencioni
Understand the characteristics of high-performing teams and how to foster them, as well as team dysfunctions (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, inattention to results) – with the completion of The 5 Behaviours of a Cohesive Team assessment (Patrick Lencioni’s model)
The team assessment gives:
a sense of the team’s strengths and struggle areas
an evaluation of the team’s current dynamics across the five behaviours
a way to measure growth and progress. We recommend a re-assessment after the team gets a chance to learn and practice new skills. This provides valuable feedback on team progress and where more focus would be beneficial.
Part of the workshop can be designed as a fun and engaging team activity using Lego Serious Play – building knowledge by building things.
Typical outcomes of such activities:
awareness of self and own strengths ("super-powers")
getting to know colleagues on a deeper level
dialogue
team engagement
flow
collaboration
reflection
creation of a common vision / identity of the team (’'dream team’’).
Lego builds make participants more curious about each other, more open to sharing in a different way than they do at work.
#GiveYourMindAHand
#BuildKnowledgeByBuildingThings
Psychological safety – what it is, why it is important (findings from Google’s Project Oxygen)
Completion of The Fearless Organisation Scan (prior to workshop)
Analyze the team’s overall psychological safety index, as well as separately on the four dimensions: Willingness to help and teaming, Inclusion and diversity, Attitude to risk and failure, Open conversation. Identify blockers and gaps in team members’ perceptions.
Play the psychological safety card game
Learning to notice when safety is at risk during a difficult conversation and what to do about it (emotional self-regulation techniques, managing the emotions of the other person)
Practice positive feedback with the positive ‘’gossip’’ activity – for a boost of happy chemicals :-)
On the road to creating a a ‘’fearless’’ team – What individual members can personally do in the team to increase psychological safety (their own, as well as others’)
Create a team ’’contract’’ (a set of IN and OUT behaviours) meant to increase the psychological safety in the team, so that members are not afraid to speak up when they have problems or don’t know how to handle certain issues.
Emotional reactions, what triggers them
Conflict dynamics, approaches to conflict: assert, retreat and analyze or accommodate
Recognize own role in the problem
Identify unmet needs and underlying motivations of the other person
Manage yourself, the other person and the relationship during a difficult interaction (emotional intelligence@work), by maintaining an effective dialogue
Brain science-based suggestions on how to improve difficult interactions - through The SCARF® Model (Neuroleadership Institute) – assesses the differences in people’s social motivation. Having SCARF needs (status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, fairness) met creates trust and increases psychological safety.
Practice positive feedback (positive ‘’gossip’’ activity)
Limiting unproductive behaviours through constructive feedback (Behaviour – Impact – Action/Agreement and Radical Candor feedback models)
Anticipating and preventing difficult conversations / conflicts
Training instruments to facilitate self-awareness or measure team effectiveness
Depending on the particular needs of your team, we might use:
Thomas Personal Profile by Thomas International (based on the 4 DISC® Personality Types)
Group Styles Inventory (by Human Synergistics), coupled with a team ''survival'' simulation
The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team Assessment (Patrick Lencioni)
Improve communication, collaboration and team cohesion!