Learning Outcomes
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.
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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.
Interactive Team building games
Communication Skills
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.
Interactive Team building games
Leadership
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.
Interactive Team building games
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.
Interactive Team building games
Conflict Management and Stress Reduction
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.
Interactive Team building games
Time and Resource Management
Definition: The ability to structure time and resources allocated so that the demands of the work setting are met as efficiently as possible.
Applications:
- Managing time and resources under pressure.
- Learning to use your most valuable resources - your employees and staff.
- Using all your available resources to stop limiting performance.
Objective: To gain control of the variables of time and resources in the midst of new out of control circumstances.
Interactive Team building games
Process Improvement
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.
Interactive Team building games
System Thinking
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.
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