What The Learning EDGE provides is much more than the activities that can generate camaraderie but many times are forgotten when people return to work.
What we provide is a structured and customized training program that will be reinforced by custom activities that are geared to begin to change behavior. We provide you a custom curriculum based on the behavior goals you have identified, in our survey, that need to be changed, reinforced or modified. We then provide the necessary tools and techniques that will allow participants to begin making those changes. The custom activities are not only fun but provide the controlled environment to practice with the new tools and techniques and provide the positive reinforcement to begin the desired change in individual and team behavior.
EXAMPLE
If you were wanting the team to be able to more effectively handle conflict, we would provide and discuss the phases of conflict, the conflict model and then provide you several conflict tools and avoidance techniques that would help the team to deal with the conflicts they face everyday in the workplace. The custom activities would then set up conflict situations that would allow the team members to practice what they had learned about conflict and begin the process of implementing the tools and techniques into their new skill sets.
The debriefs are geared to allow discussion from the team members about the tools and techniques and then provides the environment to discuss where these types of situations exit on the job and how they would use the tools or techniques to handle these in the future. We capture all these responses and highlight these in our follow-up newsletter and can provide the opportunity for the team to set action plans to begin to handle these conflicts in their areas of responsibilities.
These are the same type of learning techniques that the instructors are using at The University of Texas at Dallas in their middle management and leadership challenge programs for the school of business.
TEAMBUILDING WITH A DIFFERENCE!
The objective of The Learning E.D.G.E.'s Team Building workshops is to prepare any business team to become more productive and efficient in working together to service both the internal and external customer needs. If companies are not teaming internally to lead the way, their competition is. The customer is looking for solid business teams to effectively and efficiently help meet their needs by building team partnerships that will foster growth and bottom line results through the area of business solutions.
Adventure Learning Team Building is a series of custom experiences designed by The Learning E.D.G.E. to help your management, department, and business teams:
•Better understand and effectively manage changes while experiencing the strength of an empowered team.
•Define different characteristics of effective team leaders and learn how to identify and display those types of characteristics in a team environment.
•Define different characteristics of effective team members and learn how to identify and display those types of characteristics in a team environment.
•To challenge the team both mentally and physically in learning experiences that will be easily transferable to on the job situations.
•Define the areas in the management team where conflict may surface and practice specific ways to manage that conflict.
•Challenge the team to use the total range of team resources they have to solve issues they will face in custom designed learning experiences.
•Understand and begin to appreciate the individual skills, abilities, and talents that each team member brings with them.
•Be able to understand that mistakes will be made and things will happen that change the dynamics of the situation, but a unified team can overcome any adversity and reach their targeted goals.
•Understand and begin to utilize the 6-step leadership process that includes: evaluating the situation, P&O for the task, laying out the strategy, setting up the lines of communication, carrying out the plan and evaluating the results.
•Learning to have fun and trust your fellow team members while balancing the flow of action with reflection.
Deliverables
1. A list of specific changes that are taking place and how each team member can manage the change effectively.
2. A list of the top 5 characteristics of effective leaders and support team members.
3. Communication approaches to use at future meetings with internal and external customers.
4. Develop a team profile focusing on the flexibility necessary by each team member to reach both internal and external customers.
5. Lay out specific approaches to manage team conflict and make team decisions using the simple 4-step method.
6. A leadership and team member profile defining strengths and weaknesses in the areas of: group dynamics, team process, and team leadership.
7. A series of defined team goals for improving performance while transferring lessons learned from the outdoor classroom to the boardroom.
8. Build a continuous improvement attitude that relieves stress and dumps frustration.
