Teambuilding day(s)

Practice connective communication for trust that lasts under pressure

Teambuilding: how do you create a team with a strong basis of trust?

Teambuilding activities help strengthen bonds but often the effects don’t last. Once back under pressure at work, it’s easy to revert to knee jerk reactions and judgments towards each other. Losing sight of common underlying needs and goals.

How to create a strong team bond with a basis of trust that lasts under pressure?

By mastering the team art of connective communication. Practicing it in day-to-day work helps members stay aware of social dynamics with colleagues and clients. You learn to use friction as a signal to pause and dive deeper. Taking the time to explore different perspectives and leverage diversity to make the most effective decisions. Even when the pressure is on.

This builds trust that lasts. Even when the pressure is on. 

Connective communication team building day(s)

Overview

Build Team Trust: 0,5-2 day teambuilding days 

Team Trust Building workshop - Teams (0,5 day)

Goal:

Increase understanding & appreciation of differences in perspectives, backgrounds, values, personality types & communication styles. Learn to practice connective communication: from basic common human needs. Connective communication improves team bond & trust.

Elements covered:

  1. Personality types & communication styles. Uses personality/team role test (MBTI, DISC, Insights) as basis for effective connective communication.
  2. Neuroscience of social stress 
  3. Effective Connective Communication. Combines interactive Mindfulness, Deep listening, Non- Violent Communication techniques to explore what basic common human needs underly friction in interaction turn this around to build trust

Practicalities:

  • For teams/departments
  • 0,5 day
  • Onsite or Offsite as desired
  • 5-30 participants
  • Eur 1200 – 2000,- (depending on team needs)
  • Excluding travel- and location costs

Team Trust Building day - Offsite (1 day)

Goal:

In addition to increasing understanding differences & practicing connective communication, team members learn to work with personal- & team stress patterns, practicing how to reconnect to self and others under pressure. This maintains trust in stress & turbulence.

Elements covered:

  1. Personal boundaries:recognize and act on them
  2. Individual stress reaction patterns
  3. Mindful self-awareness & re-centering
  4. Personality types & communication styles
  5. Neuroscience of social stress
  6. Effective Connective Communication

Practicalities:

  • For teams/departments
  • 1 day
  • Offsite
  • 5-30 participants
  • Eur 2100 – 3500,- (depending on team needs)
  • Excluding location/travel costs

Team Journey Building Trust - Offsite (2 days)

Goal:

Increase understanding of differences & practicing connective communication. work with stress patterns and build trust under pressure. Apply learnings for effective decision making in a real team meeting (around purpose or key theme).

Elements covered:

  1. Personal boundaries:recognize and act on them
  2. Individual stress reaction patterns
  3. Mindful self-awareness & re-centering
  4. Personality types & communication styles
  5. Neuroscience of social stress
  6. Effective Connective Communication
  7. Recognizing a team stress dynamic and hit pause
  8. Team sensing journey – around key theme
  9. Bringing it all together in a real team meeting
  10. Effective decision making – practices & tools
  11. Morning & evening meditation & yoga

When desired, these days can include working on an actual Change/Innovation case using World Café and Uprocess. (See also: Leadership Team Change Journey) 

Practicalities:

  • For teams/departments
  • 2 days (& 1 night)
  • Offsite, amidst nature
  • 5-30 participants
  • Eur 5.250 – 8.750,- (depending on team needs)
  • Excluding location/travel costs

 

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“Mindfulness develops my consciousness and self-awareness. I register things on many more levels which improves the quality of my decisions. We advise leaders at the top: The best leaders I meet distinguish themselves with a high level of self-awareness. Mindfulbizz used Mindfulness based methods to train our research team, helping them deal with stress; listen to each other; make better decisions and come up with more creative ideas.”
Pieter Ligthart
MANAGING DIRECTOR RUSSEL REYNOLDS
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TEAM TRUST BUILDING PLAYLIST

THIS PLAYLIST OF 5 TRACKS SUPPORTS YOU TO MASTER THE ART OF CONNECTIVE COMMUNICATION.

PRACTICE THE BODY SCAN DAILY TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF BODY SIGNALS AND PERSONAL BOUNDARIES. USE THE 3 OR 10 MIN. EXERCISE TO RECONNECT TO SELF, OBSERVE BELIEFS, FEELINGS AND UNMET NEEDS IN DIFFICULT COMMUNICATIONS.

TO REALLY IMPROVE TEAM TRUST, EXPLORE TAKING 1-2 TEAM DAYS WITH US TO PRACTICE CONNECTIVE COMMUNICATION.

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