Team Growth Programme

Behavioural change and personal growth depends on reinforcement through follow-up. The Team Growth Strategy™ consists of three phases with time intervals of a few weeks, instead of a once-off intervention of one or two days (Team Effectiveness).

The programme focuses on growth of the team and individuals. This enhances individual commitment, communication, understanding and self-actualization in the long term. The team develops to such a level of maturity that it becomes self-facilitating.

Phase 1
Fundamentals of Teamwork

This program changes the way people feel and think by gaining awareness of their learning needs. The process will add knowledge to new concepts, or understanding new ways to deal with familiar situations in the workplace. This involves structured activities that relate metaphorically to the living and/or working environment of the delegate.

Outcomes
• Fun
• Socialising
• Understanding values
• Increased focus
• Effective communication
• Improved trust
• Support
• Understanding one another and how values impact on desired behaviour.

Phase 2
Individual Growth in Team Context

This intervention changes the way people feel, think and behave. Learning from the previous intervention is reinforced. A diagnostic programme which measures thinking styles is introduced. The HBDI™ (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument™) helps members to understand how they think and consequently take decisions based on the results of the assessment.

Outcomes
• Fun
• Socialising
• Reinforcing values
• Increased focus
• Effective communication
• Improved trust
• Support
• Understanding one another and myself. This relates to the individual's thinking styleand understanding how to appreciate the thinking styles of others.

Phase 3
Mature self-facilitating team

The TBI Adventures facilitator gradually moves more to the background as the team finds its own voice. The facilitator teaches the team basic debriefing skills to be practiced in the work environment e.g. “Checking-in” and “colour coding”. Learning of previous phases is reinforced.

Outcomes
• Fun
• Socialising
• Reinforcing values
• Increased focus
• Effective communication
• Improved trust
• Support
• Understanding how to function as a whole brain/ balanced- thinking team