All Hands On Deck - A Team Building Exercise

NEXTeams uses a combination of experience-based activities and traditional meeting-style techniques, but the true value of its facilitation comes through the conversations that organically emerge during the process.  These spontaneous and often passionate discussions are where the change in the group dynamics takes place.

Team building, if done well, can be the catalyst to change within an organization.  The only way that this change can be significant or lasting, however, is through effective and timely follow-up.  The follow-up process helps the team to take the lessons learned during the team building activities and build upon them during the day-to-day interactions within their organization.  Follow-up enables the transference of the gains made during the actual team building event.

Our Program Offerings:

Our Team Building Options -Traditional team building activities provide a participatory experience designed to enhance the effectiveness of team performance.  The goal of our team building programs is to utilize challenging and interactive activities as tools for teaching valuable communication and problem solving skills, building a strong foundation of trust, and creating an environment that fosters creativity and healthy risk-taking.

• Portable Team Building
• Rotational Team Building Competitions
• ROPES Challenge Courses
• Team Project Events
• RACE Day Events

Our Adventure Instruction Options – One of the most powerful bonds we can make with the people we work with is through the shared experience of an outdoor adventure.  Putting your life in the hands of one of your team mates, and relying on their judgment and skill is a true measure of one’s trustworthiness.  Our Multi-Sport Adventure programs give small groups and teams an opportunity to form those bonds in an instructional setting, giving individuals new skills that can either serve as a once-in-a-lifetime experience, or set them on a lifetime of new adventures.
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Please Note: All of our Adventure Instruction programs can be found on the GO-AdventureSports website – home to the recreational team building and adventure instruction branch of The NEXTeams Companies.

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Adventure Instruction Programs Include:

• Rock Climbing
• Caving Adventures
• Wilderness Skills
• Adventure Weekend
• Geo-caching
• Adventure Sprint

Professional Facilitation - Combining the experiential education model with traditional facilitated meeting strategies, NEXTeams facilitators will create an environment in which a team can generate highly innovative ideas with increased buy-in from the members of the team.

The Typical Facilitated Session Process is as follows:

1. Focus – Focus the team on the task/problem/process, etc…  Take the time to be sure the team is clear on the objectives.
2. Generate Ideas – Brainstorm ideas, categorize them, and define a system for prioritizing their importance.
3. Decide - Based on the team’s priorities, select the ‘best.’ ideas and how to implement them.
4. Act – Define the action steps necessary to implement the ideas, and follow through with acting on them.
5. Follow-up and Renewal – Be sure to check in and measure the successes and failures of your action plan, and if necessary, go back to the first step and take a fresh start.

Our Facilitated Sessions Options -

• NEXTeams Process
• Meeting Facilitation
• Strategic Planning Retreats
  
• Focus Groups
• 360-degree Feedback
• Quarterly Re-Energizers

Our Objectives with Facilitated Sessions: Our ultimate goal is to give you the tools necessary to run your meetings without us by experiencing the way the meetings are facilitated by us. The main benefit of an outside facilitator is their ability to remain neutral, and to utilize proven techniques for keeping the team on target.

For More Information

Eriq Powers
The NEXTeams Companies
(240) 603-4150
info@nexteams.com
www.nexteams.com