Learning aims
- Development of teamwork skills
- Development of leadership skills
- Development of personal self-awareness and personal boundaries
“What did you notice? How did you feel?”
Focussing on
- Clarity of goal
- Operational
- Non-operational
- Cooperation
- What worked (behaviour)
- What didn’t work (behaviour)
- Giving effective feedback (theory and practice of this in a previous half day release session)
- Controversy versus creativity
Triangles of outcome
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COOPERATIVE – COMPETITIVE – INDIVIDUALISTIC
Group work options (from Group Skills – Johnson and Johnson)
- Components in an effective group
- Social interdependence
- Goal-related behaviour
- Clarity of goals
- Outcomes of cooperation
- Cohesion
- Trust
Some of the group discussion areas
- Interaction
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Peer influence
- Utilising the resources of others
- Divergent thinking
- Emotional involvement in the task
- Acceptance and support amongst group members
- Trust
- Conflict management
- Division of labour
- Fear of failure
Typical structure
2 days, residential, meals, equipment and bedding provided
- Session 1 : leadership and teamwork theory and group work
- Session 2 : outside – games – particularly exploring leadership, with the group process, discussed as it happens using “process stops”.
- Session 3 : Raft-building, particularly exploring teamwork, with the group process discussed as it happens.
- Session 4 : Ghyll scrambling, particularly exploring boundaries and personal self-awareness, with the group process discussed as it happens.
Some of the feedback from the courses
What positive elements did you recognise?
- Courage
- Encouragement
- Listening
- Teamwork
- Role recognition
- Delegation
- Praise
- Adaptation
- Improvement in skills
- Improvement in behaviour
- Decision making
- Coordinating
- Commitment
- Persistence
- Support
- Patience
- Participation
- Assertiveness
- Achievement
- Problem solving
- Improvising
- Trust
- Enjoyment
What did the group learn about teamwork and leadership?
- Tasks made easier with teamwork (some probably not possible to solve without)
- Some “quiet” people manage to express themselves
- Getting stuck in sometimes best to do
- We work well as a group
- An individual’s role can change depending on the dynamics of the other team members
- To sit back and watch required trust in the other team members
- To get a task completed, teamwork is necessary, and everyone’s views and ideas will need to be taken into account
- Work is easier with good teamwork
- Seeing different attributes – people in “another light”
- Different environments break down misconceptions
- Different strengths under different stresses
- Personalities “magnified”
- Needing both leaders and team players
- Everyone sometimes being both
- Everyone in each role at some time
- Everyone has the skills for both
- Leadership
- Ideas
- Listening
- Management of group
What did the group members learn about themselves?
- Determination to achieve
- Experimenting with roles
- Energising
- Relaxing – time to think
- Getting to know people
- Looking at leadership in more detail
- Process of teamwork
- Less clarity – thinking about things
- More clarity
- Assertiveness vs confrontation
- Trust
- Risk taking
- Encouragement
- Conflict and contrast between team
- Effect of leaders on group
- Confirmed some behaviours
- Maybe not always an introvert?!?
- Enjoyed challenge of leading
- Appreciate “the outdoors”
- Confirmed lack of confidence in some areas
- Altered what is important to me
- More happy to sit back and watch than I thought
- I agree with this
- …(although also more easily frustrated)
- Find it difficult to think about tasks that don’t interest me
- Realised that I tried tact bossy
- Learned to listen to others before expressing my views
- Learned to work in a team
- Enjoyed outdoor activities
- Not willing to take risks