As 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.

Tags: behaviour, values