Team Events
What is a Team Event?
A Team Event is something done by a natural work team. It is an opportunity for a leader and their team to take a step back from day-to-day work, review, reflect and plan.
A Team Event is not the same as team building. We won't take you out into the countryside and get you to dangle each other on the end of ropes. Nor will we make you build bridges out of Lego bricks and draw profound conclusions about how you need to work better as a team. Instead we will help you to work on real issues and pieces of work and develop plans and actions to take back to the workplace.
Typical contents
Successful Team Events are a combination of the following elements:
- •Getting to know each other better
- •Leader Speaks
- •Annual Project Planning
- •Roles and responsibilities review (priorities and workload)
- •Reviewing how the team has been doing
- •Real Work as required
- •Team structure review
- •Improving interfaces with other teams
The knack is to get the balance right and do what is appropriate for your team at that time. Teams need to do different things depending on where they are as a team and what is going on in their organisation and industry.
Duration and who should attend
Duration
2 days (recommended)
1 day minimum. Other options: lunchtime-to-lunchtime or late afternoon start + full day. Overnight stays recommended.
When to have a Team Event
All management teams should have a Team Event:
- •A minimum of once a year as a matter of routine
- •When a new team has been formed
- •When a new leader has been appointed to an existing team
- •When some new members have joined
- •When there is a lot of change going on in the team
- •When the team has a lot of work to do
- •When the team is in trouble - this could be team or task related