New Working Practices for a New World

A Team Workshop to Review and Re-align Working Practices to Develop Effective Team Performance

Positiveworks have worked in the area of personal and team performance for 12 years and clients report that feeling stretched, out of balance or exhausted affects productivity as individuals become aggressive, communicate ineffectively, make mistakes and bad decisions, and become sick.

This is not a 'soft' issue; it is about adjusting working habits to support the needs of today's workforce and ensure optimum performance.

We provide a focused programme to sharpen and align managerial and team practices to achieve energy, performance and productivity within the timeframes of demanding roles.

This programme enables delegates to:

• Align working practices to today's business demands
• Identify behaviours and actions that support high performance
• Understand how to think and communicate clearly and creatively
• Focus on what matters most at work and in personal life
• Commit to personal and team actions

This programme can be run as a one day workshop or in three x 2 hour modules. These sessions can be run early morning, lunchtime or late afternoon to fit in with busy schedules.

The interactive sessions will focus on the current and desired working practices within the team applied to the context of business initiatives and objectives. The group will have the opportunity to develop personal and team goals and learn some tips and techniques.

The programme enables individuals and teams to:

Session One: Analyse the Impact of Change on their Workplace

• Review current working habits in the light of business needs
• Assess how the world of work has changed and whether current practices are relevant to today's world and client requirements
• Explore the factors that help and hinder work performance
• Analyse the impact of stress and lack of work-life balance on performance, communication, decision-making, health and creativity
• Identify key areas of business focus to achieve maximum productivity

Session Two: Vision and Options for High-Performing Teamwork

• Develop a vision of an effective teamworking environment
• Diversity Exercise: Apply the Herrmann Thinking Preference Model to understand diverse priorities, values and management of time
• Identify new ways of working that support optimum performance
• Explore flexible and homeworking options, rotational working and how to avoid unnecessary time wastage or duplication
• Transform current behavioural habits to support quality of work and quality of life

Session Three: Individual Action for Team Success

• Share methods to observe stress triggers and support team members through intensive workloads
• Conserve energy and feel mentally, physically and emotionally at peak focus
• Prioritise goals and objectives for smarter focus of time
• Develop a plan to change daily behaviours and create a culture that supports work-life balance
• Action Plan: 5 things we will do differently

Positiveworks also offer:

Supporting Skillsets to achieve faster and more effective performance

• Speed Reading - double your reading speed, manage your daily workload by learning techniques to identify and recall key points
• Mind Mapping - a method to structure thoughts, ideas and information to gain clarity, perspective and creativity regarding projects, problems, situations.
• Emotional Intelligence - stress makes us stupid; learn methods to motivate yourself and others, avoid procrastination and harness the power of emotions to achieve success
• Communication skills - lack of communication can severely delay the completion of projects, lose clients and undermine teamwork; learn about communication styles and patterns to save time and convey your message powerfully.