Team Building Workshops

Team Building Workshops:

After twenty three years of working with hundreds of communities, organizations and teams, it is clear to me that those groups that made impressive accomplishments all integrated six common values into their culture.

Intention and Alignment

Successful teams share core goals and values. They communicate openly about them, particularly in light of personal behaviors and decisions that affect the organization. We will lead your group through a discovery process to hash out what the group is trying to create and how to collaborate. Alignment of group intentions and core values lays the foundation for powerful actions.

Ongoing feedback mechanisms are essential in assuring these values and visions are upheld. Communications skills are needed to do that effectively, so practical tools and communication insights are a big part of the GRASSROUTE GUIDE Team Building Workshops.

Team Building Test

Does your team have active core values that guide its actions?
Are all the members of the team aligned to these values?
Does your team’s words, commitment, and intentions align with their actions?
Do the group intentions serve something beyond the actual groups themselves?
Do your groups utilize feedback if someone does not adhere to the values of the group?
Is there safety within these groups for this discussion to occur?

Relational and Holistic

Interconnection is the foundation of existence. Look at life itself. All living things exchange energy. If this exchange ceases, life itself ceases.
Energized teams maintain a rich level of interconnectedness and networking. Whenever a member is removed or added to the group, the change has a holistic impact. So it behooves us to look at who we bring into our teams and how that process is handled. Group activities that go beyond task achievements, such as play and social activities, are an essential part of maintaining group cohesion. The GRASSROUTE GUIDE Team Building Workshops include exercises that foster awareness of this interconnection and establish structured group activities to keep the interaction alive and fresh.

Team Building Test

Who on your team is an introvert or extrovert?
Do team members take risks by extending out to others?
Does your team regularly participate in non-task related activities like play, and social group endeavors?
Does your team tap into the power of the collective mind?
Do team members see that they are a part of a holistic web?
Are team members aware of the repercussions of their actions?

Diversity and Balance

Energy’s nature is expressed across a broad spectrum of vibrations. For example, short electromagnetic waves like gama rays measure just one-billionth of a centimeter in size; while a single radio broadcast wave can spread over six miles. When we accept the broad spectrum of human expressions, we embrace energy’s nature. On the other hand, prejudice and intolerance dampen any group field.

Quantum physics recognizes that negatively charged electrons balance the presence of positrons. Basically, all forms of existence maintains both symmetry and dynamic balance. The optimal team structure embraces diversity and strikes a balance between leadership hierarchy and collective will.

The GRASSROUTE GUIDE Team Building Workshops includes activities that bring awareness to exclusionary belief patterns to create appreciation for the diversity of human expression. We’ll also play with the balance of form and structure of your team’s decision making process.

Team Building Test

Is your team made up of people who are very different from each other?
Do team members feel the freedom to express who they truly are without fear of judgment?
How are important team decisions made?
Does your team operate with a lot of gravity – full of inertia, moving slowly, taking great effort to accomplish simple tasks, acting fearful and mistrusting?
How much balanced force does your team have – are you focused, centered, and at peace?

Possibility and Uncertainty

Energy is never static, protons and electrons are constantly on the move. Quantum physics understands that the best they can do is express energy and matter in terms of probability. If your team environment is too rigid problems will certainly arise. It’s so much more effective to embrace possibility and uncertainty as part of your team’s culture.

High energy groups consciously develop possibilities by encouraging the development of individual’s talents and passions. It means letting others take the lead on projects, give them space to learn. The idea is to support, not control, their leadership development, and at the same time provide honest feedback on performance. This value fosters a learning environment on all levels.

Team Building Test

How do you view your team’s potential?
Do you prefer optimistic people?
Do you speak positively of others and make light of your burdens?
In brainstorming sessions does your team see the advantages of an idea first, before pointing out the disadvantages?
Instead of looking for reasons why something can’t be done, do you search for ways in which it can?
Does fear prevent team members from taking occasional risks and experimenting with things outside the routine?

Open and Flowing

We do not exist in a static environment but in a dynamic, active world. When our personal egos are strong, it creates a barrier to reception and flexibility. To achieve openness and flow, we need to dissolve the rigid judgments and structures we build in our lives, our relations, and organizations. In an empowered team listening, forgiveness, spontaneity are part of the group’s culture.

Groups and individuals who are open are flexible in their attitudes, behaviors, and actions. They aren’t stuck in old habits that no longer serve the group’s intentions. They tolerate change and the new ideas of the moment. You rarely find pockets of withheld information. Leaders don’t control information in order to hold power. Although high levels of stress occur in occasional peaks, the members don’t feel long-term, ongoing distress. Such a group exemplifies what I mean by “open and flowing”.

In the GRASSROUTE GUIDE Team Building Workshops we’ll practice exchanging information openly. We stage co-creative exercises that are fun. You’ll laugh.

Team Building Test

Does your team tend to confine itself to the four walls of its regular meeting place?
Is the team isolated and shut off from the world?
Are your team members good listeners?
Do your team members listen to other’s viewpoints even when they disagree?
Do your team flow with unexpected occurrences or do they often shut down and react when things don’t go in expected ways?
Are your team an open system? Is there receptivity and exchange throughout the team for ideas and information?

Synergy and Love

Energy moves in waves. When two waves are in phase, the effect is greater than simply one-plus-one. With synergy, one and one make the power of four. Two energy units appear out of nowhere. The process of synergy leads to an energy manifestation. When a group produces more than the sum of its parts through the joint effort of its members, it is achieving synergy.
There is an emotional signature that resonates within any group; this is something you can feel as some meetings are caring, some confront tough issues, some are filled with anger, some with love. The emotion of a higher vibration – love, enthusiasm, aliveness, and joy – occurs when the team is in alignment with the nature of this higher vibration. When you feel that energy of love and peace you are feeling the vibration of energy’s higher nature. When we bring that vibration in our relationships we open to possibility as we access the higher vibration.

In the GRASSROUTE GUIDE Team Building Workshops we have activities that foster synergy, to build your team’s energy field so it’ll be powerful and connected to weather any storm and creatively respond to any opportunity.

Team Building Test

Has your team accomplished a sense of synergistic emergence in its relations at work, and play?
How does it feel when your team is in this high energy zone?
Are your team members sensitive to the energy they put behind their words when they communicate?
How closely do your team members align with energy’s nature in their own personal life?
What is your teams most significant behavior that opposes energy’s nature?
Are you actively cultivating synergy within your team?