TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOP

WHY AND WHEN SHOULD YOU CONDUCT A TEAM EXERCISE?

Stepping back from the day-to-day for a team exercise helps a team plan ahead, build relationships and resolve challenges. In support of the Maxim Travel Agency, offices and teams may avail of a teambuilding workshop to address the following opportunities:

  • When teams are newly formed, or if they have undergone significant change in membership or leadership
  • When there has been a significant shift in the team’s priorities or there is misalignment between the team’scurrent functions and how the team needs to work in the future
  • When the whole team needs to engage in formulating its response to a change
  • When unresolved conflicts hold the team’s performance back
  • When circumstances require the team realign its direction and goals
  • When collaboration requires understanding among team members of roles and responsibilities

The session is designed and led by a neutral facilitator who assesses the needs and tailors an approach for the particular objectives of each team. All information shared with the facilitator is advisory and confidential.

WHAT CAN A TEAM EXERCISE ACHIEVE?

Teams can make progress during a workshop if:

  • At least one full day can be committed to the effort
  • The full team is present, and all team leaders are involved
  • The team leader has articulated concrete outcomes and commits to the follow up actions that the

workshop identifies.

PAST EXAMPLES

Team exercises have helped teams to:

  • Create a team vision and overarching goals that inspire the team to commit to delivery of results

  • Learn interpersonal techniques to build trust and resolve conflict

  • Align between and across teams or units to foster collaboration, promote shared coordination of

    interdependent actions

  • Smooth out the working relationships and processes for dispersed teams (working in different locations/

    time zones) or for teams needing to blend different office cultures and styles

  • Synchronize strategy, structure, processes, and the talent in the team with its programme of work

  • Develop a shared understanding of ‘how we work together’ to create an enabling environment

  • Adapt to changing conditions and position the team accordingly

  • Add individual development to team goals

WHAT ABOUT LEADERSHIP TEAMS?

Leadership or management teams benefit from concentrated efforts to:

  • Develop cohesion as a management team speaking in one voice
  • Think together and arrive at new structures or ways of deploying the talents in the office, division, ordepartment
  • Work out differences in style and communication to build a shared workplace culture
  • Begin a business transformation process

HOW DO YOU REQUEST A TEAM EXERCISE?

Fill out the TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOP REQUEST FORM of this document, and submit the form to MAXIM TRAVEL AGENCY from the Organizational Development Section in MTA, at minhsa@maximtravel.vn. Minh Sa will meet with the unit head to discuss needs and options.

TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOP REQUEST FORM

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

Upon confirmation of the team workshop, the facilitator will:

  • Consult with the team leader(s) about the objectives for the workshop
  • Assess the needs through brief phone interviews and/or surveys with all team members
  • Review themes with the team leader and develop an agreed-upon methodology for the workshop
  • Facilitate the exercise and review the outcomes with the leader to recommend follow-on actions