Corporate Training is not just Team Building.

Many think that a corporate training program will actual create a team, or build a team to be greater. Well, this not necessary the case. Training should be delivered to address a purpose and to attempt to 'kill two birds with one stone' can cause confusion, lower the quality of the program and miss the mark - its a risk to try to conquer too much in a training agenda.

Corporate Training really focuses on the business needs and courses to address specifics, the theory  aspect of the topic, yet sometimes miss the practical implication and illustration of the outcome, teaching  groups about computer skills or products, service technics etc. Team Building is more general, an experience allows the team to see the benefit of working together, and how much better a group work when aligned as a team.

But is Team Building Corporate Training? well its not actual 'sold' as an actual skill or course, many still perceive the wording as fuzzy, or a fun 2 hour session at a conference. Allocating the spend per head still not obvious in ROI accounts - yet to spend $$$ on a Word training program is essential! Where the team could be enhanced, is send a few people on the Word Training program and allow the to cross-skill upon their return to the team - now thats a free team-building activity and a great ROI.

We know how and what is needed to create a great group to work as a unit stronger - its whether a business sees the difference and understands the priority in their needs.

Teambuilding Australia prides itself on being up front on their delivery, offering a ROI and outcome focused proposal.

Creative Corporate Training that adds Colour

Team Masterpiece

Creativity is crucial for a team to succeed and Team Masterpiece will help your team get their brains working in unconventional and fun ways! Creative Corporate Training that adds Colour and a splash of fun to any dry, boring training workshop, seminar or conference. 

Many individuals do not even know that they can be creative. They forget that as a child, their minds were imaginative and constantly developing new and intriguing ways to look at the world. The goal of Team Masterpiece is to draw out these forgotten places of the mind. Through the use of a professional artist, a team will develop their own artistic work. They will think creatively in a fun and unique way.

Teamwork will be developed as groups:

Create and facilitate a new dialogue

Learn more intimate details about their teammates

Remove the blocks they have developed which prevent creative thinking

Find solutions to complicated problems

Work together to create great works of art

Develop works that they thought they were incapable of

Create visual replications of the team’s values and beliefs

Relax and enjoy themselves!

Details of the Exercise:

Each individual will paint on his or her own canvas which can be collectively joined in an office or taken home by each participant

All team members will participate and be encouraged throughout the exercise

Teams will brainstorm, create ideas, and develop the pictures and images that they will create in paint

A professional artist will be provided as a resource for learning and a guide to creation

This professional will walk participants through the painting process in a step-by-step approach to learning

The artist will then look at and make some corrective strokes to the team’s works of art and then they will be framed professionally

Groups of all age ranges and various sizes can participate and find the hidden creative artist inside

If you are ready for this fun and exciting experience for your group that will have them thinking in creative ways, call us for more information at 1300226110.

Prior to participation, the program fee must be paid in full. A full deposit is required thirty days before the program is scheduled to take place. There will be a fee for any cancellations. If cancelled within fourteen days, all payments must be remitted. If cancelled within thirty days, a fifty percent fee will be assessed.

Check out: Brush Strokes - creative art team building activity

A warning, though, before you sign up: Remember that this program runs the risk of providing loads of fun and excitement while creating memories that will last a lifetime! So Creative Corporate Training that adds Colour can be essential in what may appear a 'dry' training workshop - add a splash of fun!

Team Building Feedback

'Thank you for all your support over the past two months and for delivering a wonderful program.' Gosford City Council

'What an awesome night! None of us have had that much fun in a long long time. Thank you very much for such a memorable evening.' Fairfax

'Thanks for putting together an excellent day yesterday... the feedback from everyone has been really positive!' Dept of Defence

'The best team building we have ever done!' TELSTRA

"Feedback was excellent! Comments such as "best teambuilding ever!"

were common". 3M HEALTHCARE

What can I say! You and your team were an absolute hit! Our entire team's response, indicated the activity was a huge success! ING

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Team Issues

The Elephant in the Living Room There is a popular analogy today that refers to "the elephant in the living room". This phrase is an amusing way to talk about a very serious matter, un-discussable team issues. What makes an issue un-discussable is anyone's guess. It could be that the unmentioned issue will create embarrassment for someone, might surface unwanted conflict, or is simply a topic that team members don't know how to broach. Much like an elephant in the living room, the unmentionable issue gets harder to ignore over time. The longer it goes unattended, the messier and larger it gets. It eventually interferes with team functioning like an elephant in one's living room would hinder a normal lifestyle. Although the issue is never directly confronted, it takes team energy and focus away from the job, and preoccupies the team with a disruptive distraction. As you might suspect, to move the elephant out of the team living room you must deal with it. The first step in doing so is to acknowledge that it exists. This means that someone on the team must be brave enough to bring up the issue and accept the consequences involved with shedding light on the subject. The person who does so should be ready to hear others deny that the issue is real, and that it has relevance to team functioning. Despite these protests, the party who sees the issue must be able to provide tangible evidence that the undisclosed topic is indeed pertinent to team success. It is necessary to remember that un-discussable issues remain so because they pose a threat to something or someone that the team values. Be as discreet, kind, factual, and non-judgmental as possible when surfacing the issue and you will increase the likelihood that the topic will be addressed rather than swiftly swept under the carpet again.

New Teambuilding Program

Graffiti Skool Teambuilding

Creativity in a can!

Looking for that visual edge, or another way to creatively express your values in the form of a tag or your logo, then enrol in Graffiti Skool.

Graffiti is regarded as a form of expressive visual art, the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner. We allow your team to develop their own graffiti using many methods of creativity.
With expert tuition, teams get to explore the creative side of Graffiti street art.
Following an introduction, teams are given equipment to design their work. Safety equipment is provided and with guidance from an expert, teams learn and create their very own graffiti art piece.

5-500 pax - any time, location, anywhere....

Basic Team Working's

Basic Team Working

What is a team anyway?

-A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable

-Small Number

-Complementary Skills

-Common Purpose & Performance Goals

-Common Approach

-Mutual Accountability

Ten common teaming problems

-Floundering

-Overbearing participants

-Dominating participants

-Reluctant participants

-Unquestioned acceptance of opinions as facts

-Rush to accomplishment

-Attribution

-Discounts and "plops"

-Wanderlust: digression and tangents

-Feuding members

Five issues to be considered in team building

1. Interdependence

This is the issue of how each member's outcomes are determined, at least in part, by the actions of the other members. The structure of the team task should be such that it requires cooperative interdependence. Functioning independently of other team members, or competing with them should lead to sub optimal outcomes for the entire team. Tasks that require the successful performance of sub tasks by all team members are called divisible, conjunctive tasks.

2. Goal Specification

It is very important for team members to have common goals for team achievement, as well as to communicate clearly about individual goals they may have. The process of clarifying goals may well engage all of the issues on this list. Indeed, shared goals is one of the definitional properties of the concept "team." A simple, but useful, team building task is to assign a newly formed team the task of producing a mission and goals statement.

3. Cohesiveness. 
This term refers to the attractiveness of team membership. Teams are cohesive to the extent that membership in them is positively valued; members are drawn toward the team. In task oriented teams the concept can be differentiated into two sub concepts, social cohesiveness and task cohesiveness. Social cohesiveness refers to the bonds of interpersonal attraction that link team members. Although a high level of social cohesiveness may make team life more pleasant, it is not highly related to team performance. Nevertheless, the patterns of interpersonal attraction within a team are a very prominent concern. Team building exercises that have a component of fun or play are useful in allowing attraction bonds to develop. Task cohesiveness refers to the way in which skills and abilities of the team members mesh to allow effective performance.

4. Roles and Norms
All teams develop a set of roles and norms over time. In task oriented teams, it is essential that the role structure enables the team to cope effectively with the requirements of the task. When the task is divisible and conjunctive, as are most of the important team tasks in our society, the assignment of roles to members who can perform them effectively is essential. Active consideration of the role structure can be an important part of a team building exercise. Task roles may be rotated so that all team members experience, and learn from, all roles. Even then, it is important that the norm governing the assignment of roles is understood and accepted by team members.

Norms are the rules governing the behavior of team members, and include the rewards for behaving in accord with normative requirements, as well as the sanctions for norm violations. Norms will develop in a team, whether or not they are actively discussed. 

5. Communication
Effective interpersonal communication is vital to the smooth functioning of any task team. There are many ways of facilitating the learning of effective communication skills. Active listening exercises, practice in giving and receiving feedback, practice in checking for comprehension of verbal messages, are all aimed at developing skills. It is also important for a team to develop an effective communication network; who communicates to whom; is there anybody "out of the loop?" Norms will develop governing communication. Do those norms encourage everyone to participate, or do they allow one or two dominant members to claim all the "air time?"

(From Scholtes, Peter R., The Team Handbook, Joiner Associates (1988))

Free Teambuilding Activities

teambuilding exercises:Egg Drop

Supplies: Roll of making tape, box of straws, and raw egg for each Team. Virtual money account with supply price list-listed on a chalk or dry erase board. Time: 30-45 minutes

You need to find a location where an egg can be dropped two or three floors down. Instructions: Each team is given a virtual of $5,000 allocation to buy supplies. It costs $250 per straw and $100 for every inch of masking tape. Instruct the teams to build a basket/container in which they put the egg and then drop it the two to three floors without breaking the egg. Encourage the teams to plan out their strategy before they start to buy products. All teams must stay within their budget. When the teams have completed their baskets test them out. Let them drop. Have your cleaning supplies ready!

teambuilding exercises:Scavenger Hunt

Instructions: Pick out 20 to 30 different items or information resources within the company, organization, or on campus. It is good idea to alert the other departments or individuals in your organization that this scavenger hunts will take place. Give each team a specified time to find the items on the list. The debriefing of this activity creates a bonding and the team members can learn a lot about the organization in fast time. This works great with new teams and new employees.

teambuilding exercises :Earthquake Drill

Supplies: 10-12 different size rocks and blindfolds Creating a rock formation into a unique design. Explain to the team that there has been an earthquake. Instructions: Send half of the team out of the room. Ask the team remaining in the room to study the rock formation for one or two minutes. When the time is up ask the team back into the room. Have them close their eyes. Give them a blindfold and explain to them there has been an explosion. They are blind. Explain to the team that stayed in the room, that they must now get verbal instructions from the blind team members. Using their verbal skills they must get the team to reconstruct the rock formation in order to "Save the World." This is a great communication exercise.

teambuilding exercises :Greenlighting

This activity is to look for different options and promote creativity.

Instructions: Identify a problem you would like to tackle or correct. Appoint a scribe for the group to gather all the ideas. Have the group form a circle. Tell the group that no one is allowed to make a negative comment. Like brainstorming, every idea is okay. Each member then gives his or her ideas on how to solve the problem. Only greenlighting, positive ideas are spoken. Go around the circle until all ideas have been shared. This is great idea to solve problems.