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A few of the people truly do go to remarkable lengths to make team building engaging and exciting! In fact, an away day to go paintballing or an evening out on the tiles are good ways to build relations between your team members and team managers, but you have got to wonder if the learning outcomes can always be remembered the morning after! But building a team is exciting in itself - did you know that building a team is much like saving the world?
Building a team: goals, obstacles and solutions
Let's try a little exercise. Pick your best action motion picture. You know the kind, one with explosions and goodies and baddies. Mine would most likely be Die Hard. Bruce Willis is a cop with a failed marriage, who goes to see his ex-spouse in her workplace. All of a sudden, the building is under siege and Bruce has a single, outlined goal - he needs to save as many company employees as feasible and defeat the baddies.
But reaching goals is difficult. Over the following 90 minutes Bruce gets shot at, duped, chased and made to say some of the tackiest lines in motion picture history. He knows what he would like to gain, but he also knows that there are obstacles in his way. So how does he overcome them? By grasping what he would face and creating a clear action plan.
My fondest moment in that movie is when Bruce is seemingly tricked by his nemesis, and hands him his gun. Fortunately , it's not loaded - because Bruce has identified the hindrance that stands in front of his goal - namely, getting shot - he expected it in advance, and discovered a way to overcome it. That is the principle of making your team better.
Building a team is as exciting as Die Hard
Okay, may be not! But the structure that lies behind each major action motion picture is applicable to each team building eventualities - identify your obviously outlined goals, predict the hurdles that you're going to need to overcome, and then find a good solution to keep you moving forwards. With a professional facilitator who can help with every stage of the procedure , building a team can be reasonably exciting after all.
Building a team: goals, obstacles and solutions
Let's try a little exercise. Pick your best action motion picture. You know the kind, one with explosions and goodies and baddies. Mine would most likely be Die Hard. Bruce Willis is a cop with a failed marriage, who goes to see his ex-spouse in her workplace. All of a sudden, the building is under siege and Bruce has a single, outlined goal - he needs to save as many company employees as feasible and defeat the baddies.
But reaching goals is difficult. Over the following 90 minutes Bruce gets shot at, duped, chased and made to say some of the tackiest lines in motion picture history. He knows what he would like to gain, but he also knows that there are obstacles in his way. So how does he overcome them? By grasping what he would face and creating a clear action plan.
My fondest moment in that movie is when Bruce is seemingly tricked by his nemesis, and hands him his gun. Fortunately , it's not loaded - because Bruce has identified the hindrance that stands in front of his goal - namely, getting shot - he expected it in advance, and discovered a way to overcome it. That is the principle of making your team better.
Building a team is as exciting as Die Hard
Okay, may be not! But the structure that lies behind each major action motion picture is applicable to each team building eventualities - identify your obviously outlined goals, predict the hurdles that you're going to need to overcome, and then find a good solution to keep you moving forwards. With a professional facilitator who can help with every stage of the procedure , building a team can be reasonably exciting after all.
About the Author:
Motivational Speaker Richard Tyler leads Buildingateam which offer organisations extraordinary team building, leadership training and culture change events using art and performance.
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