A Team Event is something done by a natural work team. It is an opportunity for a leader and their team to take a step back from day-to-day work, review, reflect and plan.

A Team Event is not the same as team building. We won’t take you out into the countryside and get you to dangle each other on the end of ropes. Nor will we make you build bridges out of Lego bricks and draw profound conclusions about how you need to work better as a team. Instead we will help you to work on real issues and pieces of work and develop plans and actions to take back to the workplace.

Typical contents

Successful Team Events are a combination of the following elements:

• Getting to know each other better
• Leader Speaks
• Strategy review
• Annual Planning
• Roles and responsibilities clarification
• Reviewing how the team has been doing
• Real Work as required
• Improving interfaces with other teams

The knack is to get the balance right and do what is appropriate for your team at that time. Teams need
to do different things depending on where they are as a team and what is going on in their organisation
and industry.