ACT customizes all of our teambuilding and training seminars
to meet the needs of our corporate clients. To read about some
of our areas of specialization and some basic applications, please
click on the text below:
Most corporate clients select two or at the most three of the
below concepts and customize seminars around these criteria. If
other training is desired, please let us know what you are looking
for and we will research which one of our trainers has expertise
in your specific area of need.
Teambuilding
Definition: Teamwork is a cooperative effort by members of a team to achieve a common goal. Teambuilding occurs when a group of people with complementary personal strengths commit to achieve certain focused performance results.
Applications:
Building Morale
Intact teams use this program to improve focus.
Teambuilding when under pressure is taught in both seminars.
Cross Functional Teams from various disciplines and across all departments
Excessive competition between teams, divisions, and retail stores
Objective: To get team members out of their comfort zone and help them to experience new awareness of their needs and how to meet them through team effort and "out of the box" training.
Definition: Effective communication occurs when all parties involved reach a mutual understanding, not necessarily an agreement, but full understanding of what has been said.
Applications:
Learning to communicate under pressure
Using Verbal and Non-verbal communications
Challenging all your assumptions about communications
Objective:
To get team members to evaluate all their assumptions about how they communicate.
Definition: Leadership is the act of providing guidance, direction and control for a team. Leadership includes taking charge, exhibiting authority, and exerting influence.
Applications:
Understanding Leadership under pressure.
Bringing out previously latent leadership qualities.
Helping leaders hone their skills.
Helping overly assertive leaders gain greater balance.
Objective: To create new, unpredictable situations that lend themselves
to chaotic outcomes causing participants to exhibit new leadership
abilities.
Strategic Planning, Creative Problem Solving
and Change Management
Definition:
The ability to carefully, and with foresight, plan out activities,
events, and programs so that even if the process does not go as
expected, and change cannot be managed perfectly, the participants
can follow through and complete the task at hand.
Applications:
Using strategic planning to manage change and overcome corporate deficiencies.
Thinking smart so that work efforts are improved.
Learning how to manage change proactively.
Objective: To create rapidly changing conditions that require strategic thinking and creative problem solving in order to maintain equilibrium and balance.
Definition: The ability to communicate about conflicts, stress, and imbalances in a way that reduces conflict among team members.
Applications:
Bringing about great team balance by application of paradoxical intent, or the reduction of internal and interactive conflicts by participating in conflict as a team.
Enhancing the ability of individuals within a team to relax and let go of stress through active team learning and healthy team competition.
Acting as a mirror for the team in order to identify and become aware of overly aggressive components.
Encouraging the capacity to take responsibility for the actions of the team by "stepping up to the plate" and choosing certain risk-taking actions that reduce stress.
Objective: To learn how to reduce stress and conflict in the midst of highly stressful situations to improve the performance of the team.
Definition: The ability to improve performance (and various
tasks) by changing the processes by which tasks and events are
defined, managed and implemented.
Applications:
To empower individuals, teams and corporations to perform better.
To do more with less whenever possible.
To work more efficiently with fewer staff.
To consolidate time, resources and effort
Objective: To show greater measurable results
by changing how we achieve goals and objectives, so that what
we are trying to achieve (task attainment) is done with greater
streamlining and efficiency.
Definition: Being aware of the net results and change in the overall system that occur any time there is a movement or action by any person or entity within the system, and knowing how to manage these changes pro-actively.
Applications:
To gain greater control over the subtle unseen forces that often hamper or override the best strategic efforts.
To make incremental improvements when none seem possible through understanding the system.
To remove bottlenecks and constraints in order to improve productivity and performance.
To eliminate waste and reduce unnecessary variation in the system smoothly and consistently.
Objective:To gain greater control of the system in incremental efforts in order to improve communication, management techniques, productivity and performance.
