Cascade Learning & Development - NNUH Facilities Team Day

Hunters Hall - Swanton Morley

Working with Iain Wilson and his company Cascade Learning and Development the day revolved around the delivery of the DiSC model and the use of the outside grounds to show the traits of the individuals through experiential exercises.

Great weather, great venue (the first time either of us had used Hunters Hall), and a great response from the team.

Regents Business School at Bramley Lakes

20-22 March 09

Dr Eric Chan of RBS brought up this years International group of Business Graduates to complete a weekend of challenges and experiential exercises relating the activities to theory and personal improvemnt in leadership.

34 Students from 20 diferrent countries where for many English is second or third language, all coped very well with the challenges and the change of environment. The main task was with all students put into 5 teams after a process of MBTI to select the teams and mix of personality types. Then complete a business simulation using the outdoors to gain points that go towards the sunday exercise, RAFT building and racing.

Great weekend! Tired but fun

Weekend led by BL staff - Jon Lloyd assisted by Iain Wilson, Dave Childs, Mike B and Jon Pulford.

John Lewis - Peterborough

Section Managers Team Development Event

Orton Hall Hotel - 9 & 13 March 09

TOOJAYS Lee Martin assembled his A team of Catherine Self, Iain Wilson, Jon Pulford and himself to deliver 2 team event days at the Orton Hall Hotel in Peterborough for the 60 section managers from the local John Lewis branch. The days attended by 30 SMs each day and supported by 4 Department Managers and the Personnel Manager where based around the Patrick Lencioni Model of Team Functions. The morning in the conference room and the afternoon in the hotel grounds completing a series of experiential exercises to reinforce the habits of a High Performance Team.

Great couple of days with highly motivated people.

Rope Crossing Exercise

Iain conducts a hot debrief after the exercise to reinforce the learning and relate back to the store environment

EMUAS - At Bramlel Lakes 7-8 March 09

East Midlands University Air Squadron came to the Bramley Lakes Centre for a 2 day Leadership Camp to develop skills to enhance their chances of sucessfully completing the selection process to join the Royal Air Force as a Commissioned Officer.

The 2 days were a mixture of leadership theory, discovery and experiential exercises aimed at the selection criteria. Also the group of 12 took part in a Geo Politics discussion led by Wing Commander Pat Carter for 2 hours on the Saturday evening.

My thanks to Sgt Jon Taylor for inviting me to be involed with the event.

Hethersett Surgery Team Event

Wednesday 21 January 09

The Surgery Manager and her team of receptionists from the Hethersett Surgery enjoyed an 1 hour afternoon team session working on the understanding of the fundementals of team working.
Highlighting Trust as the cornerstone of all team work.

The team worked through the Lencioni 5 Dysfunctions of a team model

#1: Absence of Trust
The fear of being vulnerable with team members prevents
the building of trust within the team.
#2: Fear of Conflict
The desire to preserve artificial harmony stifles the occurrence
of productive, ideological conflict.
#3: Lack of Commitment
The lack of clarity or buy-in prevents team members from
making decisions they will stick to.
#4: Avoidance of Accountability
The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort prevents team
members from holding one another accountable for their
behaviors and performance.
#5: Inattention to Results
The pursuit of individual goals and personal status erodes the
focus on collective success.

All the team left with acopy of who moved my cheese.

I look forward to working with the group in the future.

MA Global Business Studies Group

at Bramley Lakes 11/12 Oct 08

Professor Eric Chan brought the International Students Regents Business Shool (RBS) as part of their leadership programme towards their MA in International (Global) Studies. In all 22 differant nationalities in the group of 41, ranging from India to Nigeria and Iran to Russia.

5 Groups completed a Management exercise to include Planning, report writing, presentations, experiential tasks, profit and loss accounts, time management and feedback.

The five facilitators, Steve Turner, John Lloyd, Iain Wilson, David ? and myself where kept very busy not only with the programme but the students ensured there was never a dull moment. Amazing to think that for many of them English is a third language.

Great fun but tiring!

SynergE

John Lewis - Peterborough Store

Department Managers (DMs) Team Day

Orton Hall Hotel - Peterborough 30 Sep 08

Toojays Training and Consultancy led by MD Lee Martin supported by Iain Wilson, Katherine Self and Jon Pulford delivered the second John Lewis Peterborough DMs event of 2008. Following the success of event one a two day event held at Bramley Lakes in February 08 this event was designed to visit the success of the first event and see how the One Team - One Deal concept based around the Lencioni 5 dysfunctions had been implanted into the workplace.

TRUST - CONFLICT - COMMITMENT - ACCOUNTABILITY - RESULTS

With credit crunch and consumer confidence on the wain it was great to see and hear the positiveness amongst all the team to do the best we can, get the basics right and be ready for when the markets regain confidence.

A great day with 4 teams completing a series of experiential tasks in the afternoon and reviewing the tasks along the One Team - One Deal model.

Each team gained points toward a final target, by sharing the knowledge of success amongst the team the target was smashed - Well done great day.

Jons Team - Steve, Tom, Michelle, Sue and Ann (SG)