| ProSeminar’s team
development & team building events are designed to
help your team develop and to provide a forum to explore
issues critical to team effectiveness
Effective teams depend upon many things
not least of which are
a shared focus, a sense of belonging and a bond between
team members. Team
development and team building events play an important
role in maintaining and developing these aspects of team
spirit. They need to be fun and they also need to have a practical and work-focussed theme.
ProSeminar offers a menu of one- and
two-day facilitated team
development & team building events. Most of these can
also be run as half-day sessions and integrated into longer events such as corporate conferences or
weekends.
Continuous Improvement
& Creative Problem Solving Day
A one-day session helping the
team to focus on for changes and improvements to systems
and processes within their section and develop action
plans accordingly. The event can also
be run on an inter-team basis as a means of bringing
together separate teams for joint problem solving.
Topics
covered include:
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Concept of continuous improvement and bottom up change
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Developing proactive approaches
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Creative
and analytical
thinking techniques
for problem solving
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Making a case and selling an idea
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Action plans
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Getting the Best from
Meetings
A one-day session providing
an opportunity for teams to take stock of their approach
to meeting s and develop their meeting skills and
processes accordingly. The event looks at both formal and
informal meetings.
Topics
covered include:
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What are the problems with our meetings
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Frequency, scheduling and necessity
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Preparing for meetings
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Developing agendas
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Staying focussed
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Developing constructive discussion
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Designating action
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Writing up notes and minutes
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Action plans
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Team Working and Team
Communication Audit
This one-or two-day event
provides an opportunity for the team to take stock of the
way it works and how members interact.
Topics
covered include:
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Top ten frustration factors and time stealers
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Communicating priorities and planning together
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Managing access and interruptions
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Reporting processes and meetings
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Understanding each other’s contribution and viewpoint
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Communication barriers and pitfalls
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Dealing with stress
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Process and system improvement
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Making Appraisal Work
This one-day session is
designed to help you and your team get the best out of
your organisation’s appraisal system – making it work
effectively both appraisers and appraisees. Particular emphasis is placed on encouraging
appraisees to take a proactive approach, feel ownership of
the system and make it work in their own interest as a means of supporting their performance,
development and job satisfaction.
Topics
covered include:
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Understanding the organisation’s appraisal system - objectives and
mechanisms Benefits of appraisal
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Problems with appraisal
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Understanding the dimensions of performance
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Preparing for the appraisal discussion
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Leading and taking part in an appraisal discussion
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What do we need to make appraisal work
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Team
Working Outdoor
Activity Day
This fun event revolves
around a series of outdoor activities and games and aims to develop both team spirit and insights
into how the team works and how team members interact with each
other. The day also provides an opportunity to explore
issues relating to communication ,problem solving and
decision making.
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Meeting Deadlines &
Managing Priorities
An opportunity for the team
to look at the ways team members use their own and other
and each others’ time and work together to build a
‘time sensitive’ culture in which each team member works to protect the time
of their colleagues, plans ahead with others in mind and
gives them the time and attention they need. This event also provides an occasion for the team to
work together in deciding on joint action to ‘work
smarter’.
Themes include:
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top ten frustration factors
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making and handling requests
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handling crises and conflicting priority
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managing interruptions and accessibility - creating ‘quality time’
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planning together
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personal profiles and time management styles
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