Building Value Creation Teams
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Building Value Creation Teams: A Two-Day Team Building Program
Below is an example of a two-day team-building program, for newly formed team and or a new leader. Can also be run on two separate days. The schedule and content serve as a flexible guide, adaptable to your team's needs and goals.
Where possible, we highly recommend incorporating a visual artist to illustrate the team's past, present, and future story—bringing the journey to life in a creative and meaningful way.
Overview
This two-day immersive program is designed to foster kindness-driven team dynamics, strengthening the foundations of trust, collaboration, and constructive conflict resolution.
Participants will engage in meaningful conversations, explore team expectations, and develop strategies to overcome challenges together. The program emphasises building a well-balanced, functional team that can adapt and thrive in any situation.
Day 1: Laying the Foundations for a Kind Team
The Foundations of Team Kindness: Exploration of what it means to be a team and the benefits of kindness in creating trust, credibility, and purpose.
Team Dynamics: Discussion around the psychology of individual behaviours and the sociology of group dynamics, including the impact of stakeholders and wider influencing systems that affect the team.
Midday Session: Building Trust and Clarity
Creating a Safe Environment: Introduction of Tetrmap to understand team preferences and exercises that build vulnerability-based trust, ensuring team members feel safe to share and connect.
Afternoon Session: Roles, Responsibilities, and Expectations:
Leveraging teh team's understanding from the Tetrmap preferences to explore team roles and provide clarity and alignment while uncovering the team’s expectations of their leader.
Simultaneously, agreeing the team’s shared responsibility in supporting the team's leader, fostering a more collaborative and accountable environment.
Day 2: Creating and Sustaining a High-Performing Team
Building Strong Foundations for Communication: Discussion on how truth and empathy enhance effective communication.
Healthy Conflict is Kind: Introductuion of techniques for navigating difficult conversations and overcoming obstacles.
Exploration of the importance of conflict in fostering growth and innovation, and learn how to engage in constructive conflict.
Conflict Scenarios: Practice resolving real-world team challenges through role-playing exercises, promoting open communication and mutual respect.
Midday Session: Strengthening Accountability and Adaptability
Accountability Through Credibility: Developing a framework for holding one another accountable in supportive and effective ways.
Adapting to Change: Learn strategies for building a team that can flex and adapt to shifting dynamics while staying grounded in its purpose.
Afternoon Session: Action Planning and Commitments
Team Action Plan: Collaboratively create a roadmap for sustaining team growth, including clear goals and measures of success.
Kindness to Self and Others: Reflect on the importance of self-kindness as a foundation for a compassionate and high-performing team culture.
Closing Activity: Celebrate progress and commit as a team to the principles of kindness and continuous improvement.
Why This Approach Can Work
By focusing on kindness as a foundational principle, this learning cultivates trust, fosters open communication, and equips teams with the tools to navigate challenges together. The combination of theoretical insights, practical applications, and reflective exercises not only helps teams understand each other and perform better but also creates a positive and supportive culture where every member can thrive.
Program Details:
✅ A 2 day workshop with flexibility in delivery
✅ Up to 20 participants
✅ Visual Artist
✅ Team diagnostic tools, e.g. Tetramap
✅ In-Person only
✅ Female & Male faciliators
🚀 To find out more, or to discuss your specific needs further please do contact us.
Summary
We understand that teams are dynamic, living systems—constantly evolving, adapting, and growing. Yet the stark reality is there are no bad teams, just bad leaders!
Our two-day program, presented as a guiding framework, integrates insights from individual psychology and team sociology to effectively address real-world challenges. Teams gain a clearer sense of purpose, understanding how to voice concerns while also knowing what is expected of them. Leaders are challenged to build strong foundations, foster buy-in, and nurture a kinder, more supportive workplace culture.