Taking your group through a journey of experience, philosophy, pragmatism, and fun. Blending love for team building, leadership, innovation and experiential learning, and your group moves beyond listening. They learn, experience, laugh, gain knowledge and behaviors to make themselves and their teams better.
Have you ever spoken to someone and politely listened, then when you leave not a word was understood? They were speaking in English (or the a language you understand) and what was said you just don’t understand. You would have been better off not talking to this person at all.
Why does that happen?
“Mike Cardus facilitated a afternoon of exercises, which got participants working together in a positive fashion.The positives of the organization were emphasized, and we got to step back, and take a fresh look at who we are, and how we got there. This provided the perspective to enable us to keep the organization strong.”
Leading team building & leadership programs the vision of how the process fits into the plan and goals of your group is a challenge. Here are some questions that serve you in facilitating the group to determine that Vision.
I had the absolute pleasure of serving Gamma Phi Beta from the University of Rochester New York. These ladies were smart, fun, dedicated and focused.
Developing skills in team building, effective listening & communication. With the outcomes of;
People’s awareness of the team and their own preferred style for communication and information sharing.
Getting to know others better.
Developing techniques and tools to openly discuss best practices and methods for personal as well as advancement within Gamma Phi Beta.
Strengthened bond and feeling of belonging of all Gamma Phi Beta Sisters.
Personal accountability steps for each person to take for the betterment of Gamma Phi Beta.
The thought that teams can be established from an unclear understanding of who is going to complete which task, by when, to what standards creates strife and un-rest amongst people and the teams they are on.
When people on the team know that each member has a specific role and skill set to utilize then all people feel that they are working.
At the conclusion of this process the marketing team;
Decreased the amount of time to make a decision by creating a model and replicable method. This model was recognized by other department and is now being implemented across the organization.
Decisions are being made faster and costing less money, upon observation and interviews what used to take almost 3 months to be decided upon is now done within 1 to 2 weeks.
The majority of people support the decision made. People understand that each decision needs support and not necessarily total agreement.
Active listening and communication to peers, supervisors and direct reports.
Great managerial leaders have excellent staff-
Excellent staff do excellent work-
Excellent work keeps people returning-
Returning people keep staff employed-
Employed staff deserve;
What effect did the program have on you, and the team?
I think the exercises you used were very helpful for the long term interactions. I have on many occasions since the event pulled from the experience when determining how to approach someone and how to pull together a strategy internally to get a deadline or project completed.
In order to break the repetition cycles of expectations we must experience these relationships in new and unique patterns.
The line above is a foundational premise of using team-building activities (experiential design) in learning and training environments.
To your brain working together is working together, whether you are balancing nails on the head of a single nail, or working to balance next years budget.