Facilitating Adventurous Conversations
If you are serious about the performance of your team, it is time to help them get the sleep they need. .
Trust is the glue that holds a team together and it is the most valuable element in a brand. It is also fragile and hard to build. This book examines how trust can be built and broken in business.
This guide is so concise it can be read in a lunch hour, yet it contains valuable insights that will help you and your team to thrive.
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◀ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ▶Motivating your team members can make a noticeable difference to their performance and the atmosphere at work. Here are five tips to give your team a boost, so they know you care.
1. Say thank you more often and mean it.
If you thank every team member at least once a day and explain why they have done a good job rather than just saying a token ‘thanks’ this will make their day a whole lot better, empower them and you’ll see productivity increase….
For the ultimate exercise in developing trust, take your team out on the blindfolded 4×4 challenge for an experience that will never be forgotten.
Learn how to trust your colleagues!
Trust is something that is usually earned rather than gifted and without trust within the workings of a business, communication can become flawed, direction can be lost and ultimately the company can suffer as a result. Our blindfolded 4×4 challenge develops trust amongst colleagues. And it’s a real laugh too!…
The Team Machine is an fun team building event that requires participants to co-operate with other teams to achieve a common goal.
Each team is given a set of building materials to create a moving sculpture. The plans are muddled requiring sharing of data before building can commence. Components must be assembled in just the right way for the individual mechanisms to work. Later the teams must work together to find the correct sequence of mechanisms, so that, once launched each element will trigger the next in a chain reaction building to an explosive finale!
Have a look at The Team Machine in action at a recent Fresh Tracks team building event.
A run through the countryside demonstrated how a group can quickly become a team when faced with an unexpected challenge.
Two ewes and four lambs were out of their field and roaming the woods on a local running route, so we responsibly set about coaxing them back through the gate to the rest of their flock. Only a video could do justice to the comedy value of a group waving, bahhing, heading off sheep and trying to behave like sheepdogs. However, on reflection, we went through the following team development process…
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Finding a team building event for a large department can be a challenge. The Activists want to run about while the Reflectors would rather observe. Pragmatists will ask ‘What’s the point of this?’ While Theorists might prefer to study and solve a complex puzzle.
We reckon we’ve developed a format that can please all of the people all of the time. We combine a variety of competitive team challenges to meet each participant’s preferred style, demonstrating that our differences can be the source of our success in a team….
Over the last 20 years we’ve had the privilege of working with thousands of teams from groups of children through to boards of FTSE companies.
There are several things we can learn from junior teams and the way they work together
On reflection, it seems that the more senior the team the less effective it may be, here’s why:…
When the Deep Water Horizon court case opened in February 2013, oil giant BP were accused of “putting profit before safety”. The resulting $4.5bn settlement sent shivers through Chief Executives across the globe.
Fresh Tracks facilitated a practical exercise for Balfour Beatty...
The requirement to generate profits on large, low margin contracts is a distinct challenge to the construction industry. …
Trust is a two way street, and developing trust within your team can be a key strategy to driving the business forward.
Our blindfolded 4x4 driving course is a great trust exercise
We recently re-discovered this piece from the Times (March 3, 2005) about our blindfolded 4×4 driving course. A perfect event for demonstrating and developing trust… and a lot of fun to boot….
When it comes to working as a team, studies show that bees really are the best. Here are our top five lessons we can apply to our own working lives.
Top 5 from the hive
1. Honest communication and sharing information is at the heart of the team.
Bees use vibrations and pheromones to help pass complex messages. We have so much technology to help us communicate; let’s not forget that using it with honesty is they key to excellent communication. …
When children’s charity Rainbow Trust wanted to engage with Lombard Financial Services, our Toy Factory Exercise was the perfect fit.
Our Toy Factory Exercise was a success for all involved
The day began with Lynn (a family support worker) from Rainbow Trust sharing her experience of working with a family going through the crisis of child bereavement, and how she uses play therapy to engage with and support siblings….
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