Supercharging Your Offsite Team Development Activities

If you're regularly involved in any kind of team activity facilitation, you will? find this new approach will make every client engagement far more engaging, and productive.

As a team facilitator, you will have experienced many groups that thrived in the challenges you've prepared for them, and likely had a few that really struggled.?

Most of them likely fell somewhere in the range of ‘ok’ to ‘pretty good.’

Prescience?

No matter how deep the pre-event discussions may have been with those commissioning the event, the chemistry of the group on the day is generally thought to be impossible to predict.?

Poor skill levels among participants, as well as unanticipated behaviour, can interrupt the sessions, kill the flow, create awkward pauses and stall progress. It’s then down to your skills as a facilitator to rapidly find a productive way forward.?

On the spot you must set a clear, new direction, and continue to guide and deliver with unshakable confidence - ensuring you adopt language patterns perfectly suited to that day’s group of participants, of course.

This is a tall order, especially considering the wide range of mindsets that you, as the trusted facilitator, need to account for; the eclectic gathering of humans, apes and angels that turn up on the day.

Though the most skilled facilitators may be able to steer things back on track when they go awry, they all know the value of foreknowledge.

And this is why they would leap at the chance to get hold of a simple map of each participant’s core character types.?

An understanding of the unique personality traits each team member is critical for effective planning and engagement. Managers of football teams go to great lengths to understand the motivations and preferences, strengths and weaknesses of every individual on their team. (See the previous article on Sir Alec Ferguson.)

If high performance is our aim, we should be looking for methods that can help us towards this same end.

Secret Map?

Now imagine being given a detailed personality profile of each participant.?

This powerful information would enable the facilitator to anticipate the innate motivations, the needs and preferences of each individual, and then to anticipate how they will work together as a team.?

With such things accurately mapped, it becomes possible to plan and deliver far more effective sessions.

Why isn't this approach used much more at team building events??

While many facilitators do their best without such knowledge, those that have benefited from even the most simple personal profiles never want to go back to the old ways. So, what method provides the most helpful information in the shortest time?

The Archetypes of Performance ?

The TEAM ME? profiling approach provides a comprehensive understanding of six, essential archetypal characters - character types we can define numerically with just 90 seconds of user input.

We use archetypes because of the extraordinary depth of insight they provide; reflecting vital character traits in a simple, engaging and memorable way. They are so intuitive that there's little to learn - it's more like 'reminding' people of what they already know - we simply give them a new framework to help them understand, and immediately implement this knowledge to significantly improve their interactions and productivity.

It's simple, powerful and practical.

It works.

Legendary Activation?

By discovering and considering the strengths and preferences of the different archetypes represented in the group, you can now create activities that truly resonate with the team, and forge more memorable and meaningful experiences that meet your client's objectives and exceed your client's expectations.?

The profile results you’ll receive from TEAM ME? HQ will not only enable a more effective delivery of your sessions but also instil a new way of thinking about self, and others, that will positively impact every participant from that day forward.

They will always remember your session because of the way you addressed the nuances of their unique, individual personalities.

The next time you plan a team development activity, consider TEAM ME? profiling - the Master Key to unlocking the legendary potential of any team.

Connect and reach out to me here if you'd be interested to hear how simple it is to access this performance-elevating data to transform the sessions and activities you deliver as a facilitator.