Realign and Reinvigorate (2D)

Great Team, Awesome Future!

Overview

Overview

 

Any organization suffers greatly if their promising employees become misaligned, demotivated, or lose sight of the core purpose of the company.  

So, how do we effectively motivate and help our employees build the correct mindsets, attitudes and synergy for the long run? Each year, companies organize incentive trips and offer enticing rewards to galvanize their employees. However, you’ll quickly realise that rewards are insufficient if the team’s organizational commitment is still unchanged. 

 

In this impactful teambuilding program, Teacher Kean leverages on his years of teambuilding and rapport building experience. He has customised a fun and engaging program designed to realign and reinvigorate your employees so they can lead your organization to deliver results beyond expectations and with an immovable sense of mutual trust and respect. The program also includes a vital empathy and active listening session so every participant has a safe space to voice ideas and concerns, and for the entire team to support and understand each other better. 

This program is also a great opportunity for the high achievers or potential leaders to be acknowledged and appreciated. The participants will be engaged in deeply engaging and change-provoking activities, and their learning will be cemented and enhanced by dynamic debriefing and sharing sessions. 

Program Objectives

Functioning as a team to communicate effectively

Empathy and trust

Leadership and relationship-building

Achieving high performance as a team

Motivating themselves to excellence in the workplace

METHODOLOGY

The training consists of a meticulously designed blend of interactive learning, experiential games and activities, group coaching and dynamic debrief sessions. The teambuilding is interactive and engaging, incorporating techniques used by Barristers from the UK as well as the work of established researchers and authors. 

Program Outline

This two-day program adopts and inwards-outwards approach, where we help participants achieve personal mastery, before moving onto trust and teamwork, and finally tackling organizational issues and decision making as a team: 

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Areas of Focus

  • Personal mastery and motivating themselves to excellence 
  • Understanding themselves (values, beliefs, principles, mindsets) 
  • Effective communication and interaction for collaboration 
  • Empathy and trust 
  • Leadership and relationship building 
  • Problem solving and critical thinking as a team 
  • Innovation and resourcefulness 
  • Achieving high performance as a team 
Day 1 Activity 1: GOOD MORNINGS, TEAM FORMATION AND 1, 2, 3, 4 (9.00AM – 10.30AM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Functioning as a team to communicate effectively
  • Empathy and trust
  • Leadership and relationship-building

Activity Description (Indoors):

An excellent icebreaker in a fun variant of Bingo, participants are each given a sheet with brief character descriptions. Their task is to go around the room seeking the signatures of people matching those descriptions while learning interesting facts about their colleagues. The activity focuses on developing rapport-building skills for the participants. Additionally, in debrief, participants will explore the Working Smart Formula, which focuses on 6 keywords: “Effort – Result”, “Efficient – Effective”, and “Work Smart – Work Hard”. Finally, the communication and self-deployment skills learned in Sign and Go will serve as an excellent prelude and foundation for the following activities.
Day 1 Activity 2: EGG REFLECTION (10.30AM – 11.30AM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Achieving high performance as a team
  • Motivating themselves to excellence in the workplace
 

Activity Description (Indoors):

Participants will be assigned a hard-boiled egg each, and given a purposely vague set of instructions to decorate their own eggs using colored marker pens and other art tools. It will be emphasized that there will be no points and no prizes awarded. Some participants will industriously and meticulously decorate their eggs, whereas some others will not even bother to do a decent job. Why is this? In the plot twist debrief and reflection session, participants realize the effort expended in decorating their eggs will serve as a starting point for internal reflection (their mindsets and their attitudes towards problems and tasks), and also serve a catalyst for personal improvement and growth.
Day 1 Activity 3: LEADERLESS GAME (11.30AM – 1.00PM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Functioning as a team to communicate effectively for collaboration
  • Empathy and trust
  • Achieving high performance as a team
 

Activity Description (Indoors):

In this laughter-filled activity, participants are blindfolded and cannot communicate verbally. Their task is to overcome a set of challenges, without being able to see and robbed of conventional communication methods. In the midst of mass confusion and laughter, natural leaders will emerge and creative collaboration will bloom.  In the debrief and reflection session, participants will be challenged with Warren Bennis’s Self Leadership Strategies – Vision, Communication, Trust and Self Deployment. We also see how the participants will rise to the challenge when they are “handicapped” from their senses and pushed outside their comfort zones.
Day 1 Activity 4: SILVER LINING (2.00PM – 3.30PM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Functioning as a team to communicate effectively
  • Empathy and trust
  • Leadership and relationship-building
  • Achieving high performance as a team
 

Activity Description (Indoors):

In this activity, participants will first be taught the 5 crucial communication skills when it comes to active listening and empathy. Next, participants will have to take turns telling a story according to pre-determined themes (e.g., How I hurt someone else in the past, a mistake I made in the workplace. The rest of the team will show their appreciation for the storyteller, and take turns to offer a positive outlook on the sad story (highlight the silver lining from the incident). This powerful re-framing exercise helps participants build the skills of creating safe spaces for their colleagues, accepting and giving feedback, active listening and empathy.
Day 1 Activity 5: CHICKEN TALK (3.30PM – 5.00PM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Communicating effectively for collaboration
  • Empathy and trust
  • Leadership and relationship-building
  • Achieving high performance as a team
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Activity Description (Outdoors):

In this game focused on communication and collaborative skills, the teams will have to select a representative to role-play as the “chicken”. The chicken will be blindfolded and must rely on the team’s verbal instructions with the main goal of collecting as many eggs as possible. The catch? The team can only communicate with the chicken using the word “talk”. Teams will have to work together and push their innovation and teamwork skills to the limit to establish different variations of the word “talk” (e.g. talk, talk TALK!) to direct the blindfolded chicken. Along the way, the team will encounter crises and external disturbances. Can the team trust each other sufficiently to weather the storms?

DEBRIEF AND END OF DAY 1!

Day 2 Activity 1: BALLOON HAMPER EXPRESS (9.00AM – 10.30AM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Functioning as a team to communicate effectively
  • Leadership and relationship-building
  • Achieving high performance as a team
  • Motivating themselves to excellence in the workplace
 

Activity Description (Outdoors):

In this impactful exercise on persuasion skills and crisis management, the teams must imagine that they are a “balloon hamper” shop, and they have to fulfill the demands of 4 very different, and very demanding customers. Participants will take turns to play different key roles in the organization, including sales, marketing, logistics, production, operations, and admin support. Once they’ve stepped into the shoes of other departments, they will learn to greatly appreciate the contribution of their colleagues, whilst learning to work together to overcome difficult external stakeholders and unexpected situations.
Day 2 Activity 2: PLUG THE LEAKS (10.30AM – 11.30AM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Functioning as a team to communicate effectively
  • Empathy and trust
  • Leadership and relationship-building
  • Achieving high performance as a team
  • Motivating themselves to excellence in the workplace
 

Activity Description (Outdoors):

The aim of this activity is to get the “treasure” out of the tube using water. However, the tube is riddled with holes, causing the participants’ massive efforts to seem wasteful. This task tests the participants’ willingness to step outside their comfort zones and to contribute as much as they can whilst being decisive and working fast. The game can occasionally be very frustrating and tiring but the end result is extremely satisfying! In the debrief, we emphasize the fact that the road to accomplishing a goal will always be filled with challenges and obstacles, but with everyone’s support, the goal can definitely be achieved.
Day 2 Activity 3: TRAFFIC JAM (11.30AM – 1.00PM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Functioning as a team to communicate effectively
  • Leadership and relationship-building
  • Achieving high performance as a team

Activity Description (Indoors):

The participants will be separated into groups of 10 and be tasked with a seemingly impossible and puzzling mission. A generous prize reward will be offered to all the participants, but only if they manage to beat the clock together as a large team. The individual groups will attempt to finish the task through trial and error, but they will realize that they cannot make progress if they rush to solve the problem. Excellent analytical and post-mortem skills are required to pinpoint the root problems and to make team decisions based on correctly identified criteria. Once a group has accomplished their task, they must quickly collaborate and help the other groups so the entire teambuilding workshop can achieve the rewards together before time runs out!
Day 2 Activity 4: RESCUE MISSION (2.00PM – 3.30PM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Functioning as a team to communicate effectively
  • Empathy and trust
  • Leadership and relationship-building
  • Achieving high performance as a team
  • Motivating themselves to excellence in the workplace
 Activity Description (Outdoors): "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington Things are not smooth sailing all the time. When a crisis occurs, do you have the skills and team support to handle it? The teams will “rescue” their injured member by building their own stretcher with limited resources and can only communicate using semaphore. This task demonstrates that often, we need to take a step back, reassess the situation and pool everyone’s resources to help a struggling team member.
Finale Activity: MEGA-STRUCTURE CHALLENGE (3.30PM – 4.30PM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Functioning as a team to communicate effectively
  • Empathy and trust
  • Leadership and relationship-building
  • Achieving high performance as a team
  • Motivating themselves to excellence in the workplace

 Activity Description (Indoors):

This grand finale activity aims to reconcile all the teams into ONE, so that the organization can forge ahead in unity regardless of beliefs, differences in opinions, and variety of personal styles. Given limited resources, the teams need to collaborate to build an awesome cardboard mega-structure that meets the colorful, but seemingly impossible criteria set by the trainers. As with any inclusive organization, we need each department, unit, and branch to be aligned in their daily tasks in order to add massive value to our clients and stakeholders. This inspiring final activity helps participants to take ownership and pride in their contributions toward the organization’s larger vision.
LEADERSHIP SHARING, AWARDS, REFLECTIONS AND THE FUTURE (4.30PM – 5.00PM)
Any team building program is only as good as its debriefing and reflection sessions. To conclude the session, the leadership team will be invited to share on what lessons were learnt, how participants can use these lessons to enhance their work, what bad habits to reduce in their work, and what changes they can implement to immediately add value in the workplace.

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