Mike’s role as an adventure and Team Building consultant uses three overlapping, but distinct roles. Each of the roles mentioned below keeps the learning and Team training meaningful, self-reflective, team-reflective, and most importantly fun!
The overlapping of roles are best summarized in the explanation below;

• Consultant. In this role, he establishes and maintains contact with the client, jointly assesses the client’s situation, elicits information, designs programs, serves as confidant and advisor to the primary client contact.

• Trainer. In this role, he sets the tone of the training, then communicates, educates and improvises as he orchestrates and delivers the content through a sequence of activities and facilitated group discussion

• Facilitator. In this role, he leads the debriefings [processing], engaging and challenging participants to dig for deeper meaning, mediating disagreements and pushing for ever-greater clarity and understanding.[Butler 19]

Each of these roles is inter-dependent upon each other. For example if the training lacks the full “buy-in” or approval of the primary client contact, (usually Human Resources, a Team Leader, or a Supervisor in some capacity), the program will fail to reach a higher level of success and fail to have a long term effect on the team and the participants within the team. It is imperative that a discussion takes place and that Mike and the client contact are both in agreement on how the program will progress, what objectives and goals are going to be reached as well as how to follow up the Team training program. What if the client contact is unclear about what objectives and goals to be reached? That is where Mike will meet, process and enable the client contact to better see and understand what it is that really needs to be addressed in the training session.

Additionally during the training new evidence of inter-behavioral barriers may present themselves and the program takes an unexpected turn. This is when the true test of a trainer’s ability becomes evident. Does the trainer choose to stay the course and work on the pre-defined objectives? Does the trainer choose to go in a different direction and follow what has just arisen? Does the trainer have the skills, knowledge and abilities to in a synergistic fashion meld both together? Mike has been in all three situations and the answer really is “YES”. It all depends on the situation at hand. That is why when choosing a team building consultant or team building company an organization must research and feel comfortable with the qualifications of the facilitator.
Some questions to ask team building companies are as simple as, who are your facilitators?
Can you tell me an example of a program you have lead that is like our situation?

If you research the CREATE-LEARNING website you will see the breadth of experience that Mike brings to training and consulting programs. Maybe you have even worked with Mike before.

CREATE-LEARNING hopes you choose us to be your Team Training and development organization, although if you choose not to, know that you can still contact us and we will help you find the best company for your program. Whether it is CREATE-LEARNING or somewhere else we are truly committed to growing your organization and empowering your people and organization to actualize, internalize and realize their potential. 

 

Butler, Steve. Adventure in Business. 1. Pearson Custom Publishing, 1999.