TEAM WORK, TEAM DYNAMISM AND COLLABORATION
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS
When team work, team dynamism and collaboration is put into action as taught and practiced, staff will:
Staff communicate clearer and more directly without fear
Staff trust and respect each other much more
Staff engage with their work more
Staff have the interests of themselves, the team and the organisation balanced.
Grow creativity and resilience
Build confidence and communication skills
Embrace failure early and often
Use "yes, and" appropriately and powerfully to get teams on the same page
Teams act more like tight ensembles, playing off each other's cues and gathering intel or ideas, and modifying in real time
Find it easier to gather group wisdom and intelligence
Actively listen, leap over initial roadblocks and let ideas flow and build without judgment
Be fully present in the face of uncertainty and anxiety
Embrace messiness and uncertainty as a part of the creative and collaborative process
Grow a culture of dynamic, effective, and spontaneous decision-making strategies
🕕 4.5 HOURS IN TOTAL
🏢 MAX. 3 SESSIONS
👥 6-20 PARTICIPANTS
📍IN PERSON OR VIA VIDEO
Participants will take part in over a dozen fun activities, each designed to enhance the Human Intelligence of your participants. These activities target the typical human communication obstacles encountered by typical and atypical teams across the organisation. All together, we’ll identify and dismantle the root causes of poor teamwork and collaboration. This collaborative effort will steer teams towards a more efficient and productive work dynamic, enabling them to perform at their peak.
All while having fun.
WE RUN THESE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE (HI) PROGRAMS TO HELP YOU REALISE YOUR GOALS
and more.
WHAT REBOOTER GROUP CAN DO FOR YOU
What effect poor teamwork has
Ineffective teamwork, collaboration, and team dynamics present formidable challenges within organizations. This leads to inefficient decision-making and a lack of cohesive purpose, resulting in stalled projects and unachieved goals. While some individuals may initially possess ample motivation and drive, self-interest can gradually overshadow collective objectives, often going unnoticed until trust and motivation begin to wane. This erosion of trust and motivation ultimately leads to mediocre collaboration, teamwork, and performance.
How to fix this
Connected communication and trust are one of the antidotes to this. Not just focusing within the team, but between management and staff. The Human Intelligence programs by Rebooter Group use Applied Improvisation (AIM) methodologies to do this.
From it you see a marked improvement in teamwork and collaboration, as the brightened relationships help mold the individuals. Different AIM concepts like ‘listen/accept/build’, “yes, and…”, ‘postpone judgement’ and ‘making others look good’ nurture a supportive and cooperative team atmosphere. With management and staff taking part, a mutual understanding forms the bedrock of stronger interpersonal connections.
When teams focus on supporting processes (‘the adventure’) rather than obsessively judging outcomes, they are more effective in handling the uncertainties and volatilities of modern business life.
Rebooter Group creates an environment similar to successful improvisational theatre groups. This involves:
- developing an experimental and intense collaborative teamwork culture,
- providing real-time information access to all team members,
- participants willing to be vulnerable and take risks,
- drawing on past experiences and expertise, and
- fostering trust and building group bonds.
This lays the groundwork for greater performance which leads to greater innovation, and helps boosts revenue and curtails expenses, and leads to a more successful organisation.
Medical improv is defined as “the adaptation of improvisational theatre principles and training techniques to improve communication, cognition, and teamwork in the field of medicine.” The goal is to enhance clinical skills and build knowledge related to the seven roles of a competent physician defined by Canada’s Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Hartley Jafine (3/10/2018), ‘How theatre training can boost your doctor’s empathy’, The Conversation, ():, Retrieved on 25/9/2023, https://theconversation.com/how-theatre-training-can-boost-your-doctors-empathy-102395
For example, in improvisational theater, ‘Yes/And’ is seen as a core philosophy for building on previous ideas, and an expert in the special police force described the critical role of teamwork and its heavy reliance on team members in any operation.
Lukas Zenk, Nicole Hynek, Günther Schredera, Gloria Bottarob (3/2022), ‘Toward a system model of improvisation’, Thinking Skills and Creativity, 43():, Retrieved on 25/9/2023, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187118712100208X
Mock improvisation practices for managers have been able to expand learning about leadership by creativity and teamwork (Crossan, 1998; Koppett, 2013).
Fernanda Paquelet, Moreira Barbosa, Eduardo Davel (2/2023), ‘Organizational improvisation: challenges and perspectives for management education’, Cadernos Ebape.br’, https://www.scielo.br/j/cebape/a/hqgvBYHwWwFb3j8pRrQfq4s/?format=pdf&lang=en
Although the existence of trust among team members was only one of the items in the scale measuring teamwork skills, trust was frequently emphasized in conversations about Improvisational events and seemed to be a critical factor when team members tried to work together to find a new solution to a problem.
Dusya Vera, Mary Crossan (5/2005), ‘Improvisation and Innovative Performance in Teams’, Organization Science’, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220041816_Improvisation_and_Innovative_Performance_in_Teams
