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.
Australia is an interesting place with its phrases to encourage personal responsibly (eg “Slip Slap Slop”, “Stop Revive and Survive” and “Get Down Low – Go, Go, GO”) and some regulation (eg cycle helmets).
