Team Building

The work environment has become increasingly complex and requires the use of teams for optimal performance. In addition to the benefits to organizational performance, the use of work teams increases employee satisfaction and commitment. While the team approach has many potential advantages, these benefits are often unrealized because teams are often formed without guidance, and must operate without the benefit of formal team planning and implementation. High performing teams are not born, they are trained. Our targeted approach to team building is customized to your organization's specific needs and is based on diagnostic and organizational data.

Diagnostic Data Collection

To facilitate the team building process and leadership training process, our consultants will request that trainees provide us with data regarding team operations and functioning. Typically this information can be collected through the use of paper and pencil surveys. These surveys will be collected prior to training delivery and results of the surveys will provide the basis for group exercises. Our consultants extensively utilize both off-the-shelf instruments, such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and the 16PF, as well as custom designed questionnaires. The diagnostic information gathered will also serve as the basis for exercises designed to make team members aware of their own characteristics and how those characteristics impact team performance.

Training Delivery

Strategic Organizational Solutions consultants have a wealth of knowledge and experience with adult training methods and techniques including the use of case studies, role playing, small group discussion and facilitation, simulations and direct lecture presentations. Team building sessions are customized to the needs of the team in question, based on the data collected in the diagnostic phase and the goals of management and the team. Our consultants will work with you to determine the objectives you wish to accomplish as well as the duration of training. Typically, team building training involves discussions of team processes and stages of team development, as well as role negotiations. Other components that may be incorporated in the team building session include: exercises in communication, managing conflict, and feedback. Sessions also generally involve presentation and discussion of diagnostic data.

Outdoor Adventure Based Training

The ability to overcome challenge as a group can be a pivotal characteristic that can propel your organization towards its goals. Our certified ropes course instructors will guide your corporate team through a series of low, mid, and high level exercises designed to challenge your team to find what it takes to overcome difficult obstacles. Your team will progress through ground level icebreakers and physical barriers and ultimately onto our high (forty feet) level obstacles; the cat walk, the cable walk, the wall climb, the slide for life, and more.