The Inclusive Team Player Training
For Organisations Only
In-house training
- Face-to-face (flexible structure <15 people)
- Live virtual (flexible structure <15 people)
- Conferences and events (<500 people)
- Webinar (1hr introduction <1000 people)
- With or without actors
- Fully customisable
The Inclusive Team Player Training – 2 Days
This comprehensive and varied course will help participants understand the importance of collaboration and working as a cohesive team to achieve success. It differs from the usual team building programme, as it focusses on aspects of team participation, together with encouraging attendees to take responsibility to be a trusted, committed, and inclusive team member.
The design includes a range of different team building activities, coupled with self-awareness development. The course is fast paced, informative, and a fun learning experience.
Course Content
Creating trust amongst team colleagues
Trust: why is it so important and how do we build trust with work colleagues is the question we discuss in groups. This is followed by an experiential team activity to demonstrate what we mean by trust and how to build it. We round this session off by examining team diversity and the benefits of creating an inclusive team that celebrates differences and the uniqueness of all its team members.
Team communication
An individual assessment to build understanding of our communication style, using the profiling tool ‘The Colour of Communication’. This enables us to understand our own and recognise the communication style of others. How we flex our communication approach is essential to building rapport and trust with team colleagues, whose style may differ from our own. Using scenarios, we explore different communication types and how to build positive relationships with people who are different from you.
Unconscious bias
We all have Unconscious Biases, there will be people we instinctively get on with better than others. What is unconscious bias, and how does it impact team cohesion? Here we use a video to demonstrate how unconscious bias gets in the ways of good teamwork.
Followed by a practical group activity to understand how we might be bias towards a group or individual/s and what practical steps we can take to mitigate unconscious biases, and as a result be more excepting and inclusive.
Bring your whole self to work
Research shows when individuals are comfortable and feel supported within the working environment, they are more likely to bring themselves to work and be their authentic selves. Teams where individuals can be themselves are more likely to succeed than those where a team is fraught with tension. We explore what we mean by ‘Bringing yourself to work’ and how does being yourself contribute to building trust with others? Using visualisation techniques, the content moves on to ask, if you were to leave some of yourself at home – what part of you would you bring to work, what would you leave at home and why?
The session finishes with an activity to explore how we can be the complete person and stay authentic in our projection of ourselves.
Tolerance and Acceptance
If we are going to be ourselves, then the team will benefit from understanding the importance of tolerance and acceptance.
Working with team goals and objectives
Working with scenarios, the group consider and practice setting and agreeing team objectives for specific team task/activity. The second part of the session involving individuals assessing their strengths and how they can use them to contribute successfully to team activity.
Experiential Team Activity: This is teamwork!
A multi-faceted team experiential exercise that brings to life the issues of teamwork, cooperation, building trust and inclusion. Participants compete against the clock to achieve team success. The activity is built around an online Escape Room Game. The activity is thoroughly reviewed where we draw out the learning. Participants are then invited to think-forward and consider an action plan both as a team and as individuals.
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Contact us with your availability for a call and we will send you a proposal, programme outline and quotation for your learning and development project.
Use Actors in Your Training
Through clever script writing, goose-bump inducing delivery and professional facilitation we can bring so much to life. We stimulate emotion, penetrate the long-term memory and create lasting change.
When we use live drama, we are able to have the actors play out the scenario and then be hot seated for the audience to ask them questions whilst they remain in character. Hot seating works so well because actors work with a pre-rehearsed backstory, so they are able to respond in character. They progressively reveal unexpected elements of their story that will not have previously been told. It can bust assumptions that the audience might have made based on the scenario (situation) but not fully understanding the impact at first sight.
Using actors in this programme enables us to bring to:
- See a typical situation from a different perspective
- Give attendees a chance to challenge the actors whilst they are still in character
- Demonstrate that things aren’t always what they seem at first glance
- Provide delegates with an opportunity to test out alternative ways of approaching different situations
- Create an experience which stays in the long-term memory
Case Study
Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
Upskilling engineering, architectural and bio-medical graduates“I want to take the chance to thank you again for this wonderful course, it’s been my absolute pleasure and honour to be trained by you. I honestly learned a lot during this week, I hope we will keep in touch.”
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