Sales Team, Team Building
Program Goals: Keep the Team competitive, while Illustrating growth through a shared pool of resources.
1. Get to know others: For participants to learn about the team and the members that make up the team. Develop respect and appreciation for the skills, diverse backgrounds, values, and talents that each member brings to the team and understand that their individual attributes are a resource to be tapped for team effectiveness and learning.
2. Development of Sales Team: For participants to leave here feeling like a cohesive team with a shared vision and purpose. To highlight team theory and skills sets for team growth.
4. Enjoyment: The teambuilding program will be enjoyable and set an expectation that the team setting will be rewarding while requiring hard work to increase and sustain effectiveness.
Program Agenda:
Initiative: Change Up (all group) participants are given playing cards and led through a series of initiatives based on the cards and their quick thinking
Focus: Communication and working within a “change” dynamic while still improving upon performance.
Processing: What strategies did the group develop to implement an effective solution? What was the consequence of change during the activity? What strategies did the group develop to adjust to change? What recommendations does the group have for managing change at work based on the experience?
Initiative: Team Tag (6 teams)
Focus: Fun
Processing: Strategies and techniques
Initiative: Pipeline (all group 4 small teams working in collaborations) the group is challenged to transport different objects down a “pipeline” with communication blockers, and deceptive information.
Focus: accomplishing varied “customer” tasks while reaching a larger organizational goal and steam lining communication to be effective at meeting “customer” needs as well as organizational goals.
Processing: Did the team create a workable plan? How did this happen? Was the time spent planning adequate? Did you set a clear goal? Was it realistic? What would you do differently next time to improve effectiveness performance?
Initiative: Jigsaw Board Room Connector (2 teams)
Focus: Higher level communication, sharing responsibilities for the accomplishment of goals.
Processing: This will be a participantt lead processing activity, allowing the participants to extract personal learnings, and share these learnings if they wish.
Initiative: Catapult Challenge (3 team competition!!) teams design and build structure to shoot objects at targets located ~ 50 feet away.
Focus: Creative problem solving, working within a change dynamic
Processing: This activity will feed into our final processing dialog.
Wrap Up: Thank you, and now what? Discussion about taking the day back to the office
(Group hug) high fives!!
Special Notes on Processing:
Create-Learning Facilitators will process and reflect after the majority of the activities. This session may include although is not limited to use of Metaphor cards, group drawing, Socratic question and answers, Small group presentations of learning, Personal reflection through the use of sharing circles and various hand signals, as well as creating concrete plans of how the skills gained will be used in the workplace personally and professionally.
Create-Learning has shown results using a variety of processing activities to actively engage each participant. Create-Learning uses processing techniques and activities to give each individual participant the greatest learning possible for the day.
Individuals and teams will learn about the different personalities and skills of their peers. This is learned through the hands on nature of the activities and the highly interactive processing session after each activity. Create-Learning enables the group to take credit and responsibility for their own learning, and gives them tools that can be used immediately in the workplace.