Advanced Team Training?
Personal productivity, Plan No CommentsAs someone who travels by nearly all modes of transport and who has benefited from advanced driver lessons, I am taken by the potential for advanced cyclist training when I see some very scary bike work each day!
A small number of cyclists give the rest in Cambridge or London a bad name and generate less leeway for others from rageful drivers.
The same maybe true in teams. A few bits of bad behaviour undermine the efforts of the many.
I did three fun game based training sessions yesterday. These were to explore and emphasise the behaviours needed for great group work – ways of working that would help underpin that organisations stated values (nb they do indeed use their values in their recruitment and appraisal processes – so they are right up there at level 5 of our values model – but that is another story).
Anyhow this work got me thinking of about Advanced Team Training and how rarely that happens in a planned way.
What would you put in the curriculum?
I would include;
- Bill Isaacs dialogue skills, dilemma resolution and negotiation for handling conflict with lightness and tact
- John Heron’s six ways of intervening
- Myers Briggs understanding of strengths and difference
…amongst many others to develop the disciplines for great team work and experience.