Team Development

Ellen Stevenson, facilitator

Many managers and employees experience symptoms of distress including illness, disrupted sleep patterns and reduced performance. The pressures of constant change and a demanding work environment have put a strain on many employees' ability to cope. The more change in our lives and the greater the changes, the more distress we experience. No two people are exactly alike, and neither is their stress or the way they respond to it. To better manage stress, you first need to identify your stress sources and your personal responses to them. Then you can develop new strategies for enhancing personal health and overall performance. Stress Mastery, featuring Essi Systems' StressMap®, is designed to help participants learn skills to better cope with the changes and pressures at work and at home.

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Building Effective Teams
Days:(2)

Cynthia Cushing, facilitator

Bringing together the knowledge, skills and perspectives of a wide range of people calls for figuring out team roles and relationships, making collaborative decisions, giving constructive feedback and dealing with conflict. Effectively focused and equipped teams can unlock creativity, talent and experience for generating original solutions to difficult challenges. Optimize your team's performance and renew their energy and commitment by refreshing your communication, collaboration and conflict resolution skills in this fun and practical workshop.

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Square Wheels and The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine
Days:(1)

Scott Simmerman, Ph.D., facilitator

This two-part program is memorable, engaging, challenging, collaborative and fun. It starts with Scott's internationally acclaimed Square Wheels® illustrations accomplishing the goals of generating participative involvement in organizational improvement by focusing on problem solving and facilitation skills. Participants create shared goals and visions and then learn simple tools and frameworks to improve communications and shared focus. The second half of the session uses Scott's team building simulation to demonstrate the impact of improved interdepartmental and intrateam collaboration and clearly illustrates ideas for team motivation and leadership. The debriefings of each part will be targeted to the specific desired outcomes for the group.

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How to Have Energy at the End of the Day
Days:(1/2)

Marianne Frederick, RPT, MHSA, facilitator

Laugh out loud as you learn how humor can improve productivity by impacting attitude, fatigue levels, health awareness and motivation. Participants will discuss the three benefits of integrating humor, laughter and a playful spirit into the workplace, and identify five ways to appropriately decrease the tension and fatigue impacted by desk work, keyboarding and other work activities. Participants then create an action plan to utilize positive attitudes, praise and play to improve morale, motivation and productivity.

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MediHumorcine: or 'Humor in Medicine'
Days:(1/2)

Marianne Frederick, RPT, MHSA, facilitator

Learn appropriate use of a play-filled attitude in healthcare to regain balance, enhance communication and rebound from the stress of care giving. Participants will discuss four ways that humor helps to improve communication and manage healthcare changes more effectively, and create an action plan to deal with the stress of care giving that includes finding more creativity and humor in healthcare.

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TeamPlay: Developing Teams and Building Team Spirit
Days:(1)

Marianne Frederick, RPT, MHSA, facilitator

Learn how to help your team discover each other's natural talents, appreciate differences and similarities and get revitalized with team spirit-building communication activities (no ropes required). Participants will take away practical tips, resources and participate in a Diversity Game and Big Five Locator to learn how to facilitate the process when they return to their own organizations.

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Mastering Conflict
Days:(1)

William Wilder, facilitator

This workshop will ensure that any conflict in your organization is expressed in a productive manner and viewed as a potential source for better outcomes. This workshop includes a survival simulation that demonstrates a full range of group-process skills including conflict resolution, consensus decision making and problem solving in a safe, nonthreatening environment. Using 10 realistic cases, participants learn how they typically respond to conflict. Participants also will learn and practice a simple technique for handling conflict in meetings.

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Peak Performance Challenge Course
Days:(1)

Kim Keefer, facilitator

Leaders today are challenged to develop within their organizations the kind of teamwork that fosters innovative problem solving and enhances productivity. Spend a day outside at Furman and experience the Peak Performance outdoor adventure challenge course. Peak Performance is a sequence of increasingly complex and challenging activities designed to increase individual and group knowledge. By exposing issues such as control, communication, conflict, authority and individual listening skills in a non-judgmental way, Peak Performance allows team members to identify the barriers that inhibit performance and to explore solutions that enhance productivity by challenging them mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Partial- and full-day programs are available and can be custom designed to meet your group's specific needs.

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Dramatic Development
Days:(1/2)

George Dupuy, Ph.D., facilitator

Dramatic Development is an exciting new workshop that uses the dramatic arts to create a "living" case experience addressing diversity and ethical issues. It has two major components: