What can we do to integrate different cultural perspectives into effective team problem-solving? Effective team problem-solving demands more than just technical expertise or individual brilliance. It requires an understanding of different cultural perspectives and an ability to integrate these into a cohesive, functional whole. New Zealand, with its unique blend of cultures, has an opportunity … Continue reading Blending Perspectives for Effective Team Problem-Solving: An Integrative Approach
The Group Styles Inventory (GSI)
The Group Styles Inventory (GSI) is the only research-based tool that provides a valid and reliable measure of how people in groups interact with each other and work as a team to solve problems. Extensively researched and internationally proven, this assessment provides group members with a ‘safe’ way to talk about their behaviour and how … Continue reading The Group Styles Inventory (GSI)
Unlock the secret of team synergy with one of the most widely used exercises for team building and group development in the world. Do your teams have what it takes to survive?
The Desert Situation "It is approximately 10 o'clock in the morning on a mid-August day and you have just crash-landed in the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States." Your task is to rank 15 items salvaged from the plane in the order of their importance to your team's survival. Set in an unfamiliar location, … Continue reading Unlock the secret of team synergy with one of the most widely used exercises for team building and group development in the world. Do your teams have what it takes to survive?
How to create an environment for breakthrough results in any team.
Team breakthroughs require a combination of skill and expertise, constructive interpersonal behaviour and rational thinking. The size of your breakthrough depends on the quality of the decision, multiplied by the degree to which the decision is accepted by those who must implement it. Quality and Acceptance are brought about through consensus decision-making. Skill and expertise … Continue reading How to create an environment for breakthrough results in any team.
Team Development – Using Simulations
Survival Simulation Series exercises require team members to work together effectively to deal with life-threatening situations. These simulations can be used as icebreakers, to establish Constructive norms within a new work group, or to introduce members to the value of synergy or to gauge their synergistic problem-solving skills. How Simulations work Synergy occurs when the interactive … Continue reading Team Development – Using Simulations