Team building - just warm fuzzies?

Media Release
13 August 2010
For Immediate Release

Team building - is it just a whole lot of corporate warm fuzzies or are there tangible results? How can team training contribute to your bottom line?

First let’s define a team: whilst a team is a group of people, a group is not necessarily a team. Rather, a team is a group of people working together towards a common goal. Thus any exercise in team building is fruitless unless every member of the team is aware of the company’s short and long term goals. Additionally, everyone needs to know their role in working towards these goals.

This said, the most effective team building exercise you can engage in is gaining clarity around your company goals and objectives and then having a defined action plan which everybody contributes too.

How do you achieve this? Mike Catton, director of Valde Training Group, a world-class personal and professional development training company knows teams need to be very clear about why they are undertaking any exercise. “Companies must know what direction they are headed in and how every team member can contribute to achieving the company’s goals.”

Unity at a team level lifts individual engagement, contributes to increased team performance, which leads to increased bottom line benefits.

Setting SMART goals is not enough. Ensuring they are reached is the challenge. “Most goals are achieved at the unconscious brain level,” Mike says. “When the channels between the conscious and unconscious mind are opened, the journey from thought to action becomes short and precise. How we think immediately changes the way in which we perform,” Mike says.

“Therefore teams need to learn how to individually engage their unconscious brains to ensure on-going success.” The power of focus, the effect of habits and harnessing emotions all contributes to success on this area, he adds.

Mike competed and won against almost 2,000 other coaches globally for a prestigious Innocentive award where he provided solutions to the challenge of finding ways to make long term habit changes which ultimately lead to more productivity in business. When these tools and solutions are rolled out across a team – the effects are profoundly powerful, he says.

Mike is passionate about business and empowering teams and chooses to share some of his strategies with people through a series of free Goal Setting Workshops. In theses 45 minute sessions, he presents a revolutionary formula to help gain clarity about what your goals are and more importantly, WHY they are important.

During the short workshops, Mike takes participants on a step-by-step journey, allowing them the space and means to focus on what is important to them. Introducing you to the six languages of the brain; he shows you how to begin the simple process of re-programming your mind to achieve the results you want.

These workshops are presented in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch and more information can be found at www.vtg.co.nz

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