Realign and Reinvigorate (1D)

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: CHICKEN TALK (10.30AM – 11.30AM)

Competencies and Skills:

  • Communicating effectively for collaboration
  • Empathy and trust
  • Leadership and relationship-building
  • Achieving high performance as a team

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?
Day 1 Activity 3: SILVER LINING (11.30AM – 1.00PM)

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 to tell 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 4: BALLOON HAMPER EXPRESS (2.00PM – 3.30PM)

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.
Finale Activity: MEGA-STRUCTURE CHALLENGE (3.30PM – 5.00PM)

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.

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