Taylormade Communication

Communication has been the buzz word in the training industry for many years. It has been the scapegoat in numerous failures and the cause of even more, yet there seems to be very little agreement as to what is effective communication. Many different reasons may be voiced around this topic, but the reality is that the same set of communication rules does not apply to everybody in the same way. There will be as many effective communication blueprints as there are situations, teams and unique individuals. Defining effective communication, relevant to a specific situation, team and team development stage, would be far closer to a realistic outlook.

In this program we will focus in these specifics and apply the baser knowledge of effective communications to your team and unique situation.
Allowing your team to leave, COMMUNICATING!

REMIT:
Provide a full day teambuilding and training event for a group of people.
All activities to be fun and challenging, incorporating all team members.
All learning and facilitation to be done in an interactive and fun style, keeping all team members involved and allowing for continuous personal growth.
All activities an d sessions are to focus on the key learning outcomes.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Define and investigate communication styles at interpersonal level.
Define and investigate communication basics at interdepartmental and organizational level.
Assess current communication styles, discuss improvement and design effective structure.
Facilitate the application of effective communication basics.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROCESS:
The process used during the activities is based on the Adventure based experiential learning model. This model will allow teams to acquire skills on both a theoretical, as well as a practical level and facilitate the process of applying these skills in a controlled environment. Activities are followed by interactive discussion session at the activity, where the relevance of the activity as well as the practical implications are discussed and made relevant for the work environment. A process of continues learning is followed, where each activity not only assist in the learning of new skills, but also re-emphasizes the previously acquired skills.

Warm Ups:

A Ka Zo

Guaranteed to get you roaring with laughter. This ice breaker puts everybody on the spot and allows you to let the hair down a bit.

Human Knot

This is where we get rid of the whole idea of personal space. The team get themselves into a human knot, without them even realizing it and then gets the nearly impossible task of untangling that knot. Struggling with a tangle has never been this much fun before.

Intervention:

Helium Pole

The ultimate activity in group cohesion. Groups are to put a thin pole down on the ground without ever letting go of it, sounds easy doesn’t it? No teams we know of have ever managed this on the first attempt. (Reliability and trust, communication, blame shifting)

The Communications Dilemma

This insightful activity allows teams to grasp integral truths about their own communications style and the effectiveness around these styles. The team will be required to clarify a set of instructions that came through in segments, by analyzing these segments and complete the full set of instructions.

Wim’s Bridge

Once again an invention that originated in the camel trophy. Teams are to complete a course by navigating their way over a suspended bridge. Very good activity to get to know fellow team members as well as getting used to structured planning, rather than just structured execution (structured planning, value of trust, personal sacrifice)

Woozy Wires

Trust at its best. Pairs in the team must rely on one another to complete some easy obstacles, which is impossible to complete on your own. (Trust, motivation and personal perception)

Theater Sports

A brand new for teambuilding in South Africa. This fun innovative experience will take every last drop of initiative, where no other drop of initiative has gone before.

Swamp
Team must complete an obstacle type course that seems quite challenging and sometimes just plain impossible; however sticking to some basic team principles makes it very simple. Motivation and support (giving as well as receiving) gets addressed in this activity. (Planning, motivation, support, commitment)