Consulting and Technical Support Services

We will consult with you ahead of the experience, in order to understand and meet the needs of your team. The following are some examples of exercises that your team may experience. The final agenda will reflect what we discover both before and during the experience.

Flow

A movement exercise that develops awareness of the energy balance in teams. Through observing movement, we discuss individual and team patterns of behavior and generate an awareness of how to create a healthy balance. Participants get comfortable with each other and the environment.

Create a Portable You

A creative arts exercise that allows each individual to share what they value most in their work and home life.

Discover Shared Values

We discuss the values of the group and review their experience; we look at company values and principles and how the group reflects them in its work. We will then develop and cluster these values into value statements and principles to which all agree.

Bringing Values to Life

Following a discussion of shared values, this experience moves principles and values from the abstract to the concrete. Through performance and presentation, segmented teams express values to the rest of the group.

Bring Your Team Success to Life

This experience highlights team success, with a focus on future success demonstrated by segmented teams to the rest of the group through performance and presentation.

Shelter from the Storm

The real world offers challenging weather! Together, your team must create a shelter that all can gather in for safety using ambient materials in a limited time. Afterwards, we discuss the experience in relation to the challenges and successes they experienced, how they cooperated together, and relate that to the work environment.

Create a Communication Culture

The group defines and documents its strategy for communicating within itself. Technical training is provided for using the private website, which is created and transcribed during the Value Gathering with the values, goals and commitments of your team. Next action steps and timelines are transcribed into the website, promoting follow-up to commitments.

Commitments and Learnings

The group identifies commitments they can make as individuals to bringing their values into the workplace, and share learning from the overall experience.

Follow-up for Team Transformation

We are dedicated to making it real and making it last. We strongly believe that our assistance both before and after the event ensures a quality experience that will enhance your team. A strategy is developed before your event, to ensure that your team’s experience aligns with your goals. After your event, we follow-up with your team to assist the translation of their commitments back into the workplace. Consulting time with our facilitators will include one follow-up session within the first month after the event, to ensure that your new website is productive to your goals and commitments. In addition, facilitators will provide consulting time to support the first 6 months’ progress of your Work Design Team, which is an outgrowth of the event experience.

Work Design Team

After the Value Gathering event, the Work Design Team meets monthly, to monitor, develop and implement action items. Team members will be chosen by management and are representatives of the wider team (usually about 5 to 8 people). In addition to implementing the action items from the Value Gathering, they solicit new ideas and suggestions that correspond to the continuing needs of the wider team and then determine new action items to be presented for managerial approval. Once action items are approved, the Work Design Team delegates the implementation and continues to monitor progress. The Work Design Team ensures that commitments are completed and your team continues developing and implementing new initiatives to enhance success.