Highlands Team Building Workshop
This program is designed to enable you and your team members to work effectively together. A team is a composite of the abilities, skills, interests and values of its members. During the program, we will explore the characteristics of your team—the combination of abilities, skills, values and goals of its members. We will examine how you work together at present and how you can increase the productivity and satisfaction of the members.
The process begins with individual participation in the Highlands Ability Battery and feedback. Our assessment of your own innate abilities will help us to understand the elements of your individual work profile. Our aim is to enable you to function better as a team member—to communicate better, to learn more effectively, to avoid conflicts and encourage cooperation, to offer praise, to accept criticism, to admit mistakes, to share ideas, and, in general, to refine your own interests and goals to correspond with the goals and interests of the team.
When you and your team members have completed the Battery, we will prepare and distribute a Team Profile showing how the results on the various Ability work samples were distributed among the members. We will also ask you to complete two forms which will help us understand how you perceive the effectiveness of the team and your own role in the team.
The one-day workshop begins with a review of Abilities and their distribution among the members of the team. We consider Personal Style, the Driving Abilities and the Learning and Communications Channels. Our review is intended to enable the team to draw more effectively on the abilities of its members and to minimize stress among the members
We go on to study the skills of team members, emphasizing that skills are different from abilities. Again, our purpose is to define the members’ skills and to integrate them into the work of the team. As part of our inquiry into skills, we ask the team members to participate in an exercise which will help us all to understand how the team members relate to each other and cooperate to solve a problem. Finally, we inquire into individual values to learn how these affect the team and its work and how they relate to the company’s mission.
We hope that you enjoy the Highlands Team Building Program and find it helpful in your own work and in your relationship to your team and its members.