Team Building and Collaborative Decision-Making

What?

This interactive session features serious fun that combines organizational celebration, networking, and collaborative exploration of issues and missions. The session will be customized before and during its delivery to suit the organizational resources, preferences, and constraints. The session can last from 90 minutes to a whole day to ensure that the outcomes go beyond me "feel-good" reactions to serious dialogues and sustainable decisions.

Why?

In the midst of the daily routine and constant demands for putting out fires, it is easy to forget our core mission and the personal fulfillment that our jobs provide us. It is also easy to ignore the fact that we belong to various teams collaborating with each other to meet exciting challenges. This session is designed to help us pause a moment, take stock of what we are all about, and celebrate our strengths and achievement. It is not, however, a mindless party but rather a playful and creative way of looking at where we are and where we would like to go.

How?

The session will feature structured activities that last for 3 to 30 minutes. A specific set of activities will be selected through conversations with clients and modified with just-in-time inputs from participants.

Goal

Interact with your colleagues in an effective and energizing fashion to explore organizational issues, projects, strategies, and mission.

Outcomes

Meet new colleagues and learn more about the preferences and perceptions of your coworkers.
Form and strengthen informal networks and teams.
Share personal preferences, perceptions, and goals with others.
Explore professional and organizational issues, questions, initiative, strategies, and mission. Express your enthusiasm and concerns.
Discover you individual, team, and organizational strengths.
Develop action plans for maintaining your energy and excitement in the midst of daily routine. Implement the plan.
Become energized with renewed understanding and commitment to the positive aspects and meaningfulness of your professional activities.
Learn group activities that you can use to structure your information-sharing and decision-making tasks.

Who?

The session will be conducted by one or more experienced facilitators from the Thiagi group: Matthew Richter, Tracy Tagliati, and Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan.