Team Building Day with New Directions Youth and Family Services Experiential Education Staff
I was invited to spend the day with the Experiential Education Staff at New Directions Youth & Family Services.
You may know the best solution It is no good if the person rejects it
Working to find the solution that is best. Use resistance and questions as a chance to listen to determine what they want.
Team Building Processing Tool STAR Method
The STAR method is a behavioral interviewing method that organizations use to explore predictors of performance.
This STAR method can also be used for processing (de-briefing) a team building and training simulation.
10 Sins of The Facilitator
We have all been guilty of one or more of these. Facilitation is a skill that takes knowledge, practice and patience.
Using Your Smart Phone to Gather Information Cheating or Wise Use of Resources?
As a team member if you have access to resources and knowledge that may help the team be more successful it is your duty to share that knowledge. The team may decide what and how useful the information is.
Plan:Do:Check:Act: Team Building Processing and De-Briefing
Individuals on teams when involved in challenges are really close to the problem and taking a Plan:Do:Check:ACT (PDCA) break will create clarity and teach a model of action steps and solutions finding in real-time examples.
Here is how the model works;
How To Process + De-Brief Team Building Activities
Team Building Facilitators lead activities that add value to the organization, team and person. This is established and created through purposeful processing and de-briefing of the activities. Allowing for functional tie-backs and applications to work, life, the community, etc…
If you are just playing games and not processing and de-briefing the activities then you are a recreation director.