>> Client Engagements: St Vincent de Paul Team Building

St Vincent de Paul Team Building
Client
Disciplines	Training - Organisation
Situation	A manager had been appointed to bring together a variety of experienced staff from existing teams into a newly created business area.
Challenge	The new team had a variety of skills and experience but had not worked together as a team before. Some members of the team were also unsure of how individually they would cope with the new challenges.
Response	O2C provided St Vincent de Paul a team building course, based around laser sports, focussed on improving their understanding of what a team is, how team operate and the roles and emotions of each team member in relation the stage of the team, team goals and other team members. This course included a full day team based activity using laser sports and a range of other experiential activities to underpin the course outcomes. A comprehensive pre course survey identified each team members understanding of themselves and a team. This provided the facilitation team with a sound knowledge of the level of understanding of the participants. A follow up session four weeks after the full day session was conducted to ensure the outcomes of the training were embedded within the St Vincent de Paul team.
Outcome	The team identified that they had, both individually, and as a group high levels of capability for performing the tasks that were going to be expected of them. They identified as a group that the value Trust would be a key value for them as a group in the activities that they had to undertake together. The follow-up session conducted in the workplace confirmed that the group takeaway activities were being implemented in the new environment.