Session Synopsis - Teambonding

Sharing synopsis of a session we did some time back for one of India’s largest insurance & finance company.

Topic: Team bonding

Theme:

Synchrony

Collaboration

Ownership

One Team

Problem statement:

No major pain areas/problem statements per se.

Desired outcomes:

Participants should know each other a little better

Participants to be sensitized on working in sync, in collaboration with one another

Participants to be sensitized about ownership

Group size: 52

Methodology:

Facilitraining

Activities/Tools used:

Baton Pass

Topsy Turvy

Domino cascade

Lead Fac: Was supposed to be me but last minute I asked Sapna Jain,CFTP to lead :P

Co-Facs: Vahista Anklesaria , Ankur Seth?? , CA Sarita Mehra Pandey , Hemali Shah , April Strong, ?? ACC (ICF)

Prep:

This was second series & 5th workshop that we were running for this client. In the past we have done sessions for different audience (haven’t posted synopsis about those, will do soon). Still we did have diagnosis calls & sought clarity on the outcomes, roles & deliverables.

One major challenge we have here is the space availability & this time we had a fairly large group. We started exploring options around where all can we do the activities. We had to factor in the group movement, transition, set-up, debrief space etc. Finally, we zeroed down upon their recreation room only & decided to use activities that would take up minimal space rather than using different different venues.

The props were secured & we decided to reach quite early as I wanted to co-facs to have a feel of the activity as they too were going to experience it for the first time.

The set up was done and while doing the topsy turvy, co-facs felt that the sheet might be insufficient. So the activity was re-engineered to accommodate this contingency.

And we were set to go..

Execution:

The session began with my standard JOLT of team swap & then the teams got to the activities. I gave a jolt to Vahista as well asking her to do a rapid fire debrief with her group after the first activity Since we were doing the relay mode, each group did 2 activities.

Closure was done with the groups sharing what is it that they would do differently as individual, department & organization on flip charts and then presenting it to the larger group

What worked:

Specific & detailed contracting with the client sponsor.

Detailed preparation with the team, props & venue

Being fluid during delivery.

Learnings for me:

Check & double check the props

Happy Learning !

Ganesh Dalvi CPF

FOLKS School Of Facilitation and Learning ?

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