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Team Building Tips with Appreciative Inquiry and The Science of Happiness at Work

Transform your corporate team building events results...faster than any old way of doing team buildings’ games and motivational talks that don’t last. REAL Appreciative team building and the Science of Happiness at work is the new rage for smart business with a powerful and positive focus on results.

Transform your results...faster than any old way of doing team building games and motivational talks with a powerful positive focus

REAL Appreciative team building and the Science of Happiness at work is the new rage for smart business. Gone are the company team building days filled with silly games, people used to call "team building activities". Smart companies are now looking for sustainable results, beyond the short-lived team motivational style talks,

Here are some tips incorporating the positive aspects of Appreciative Inquiry and The Science of Happiness at Work to transform your team building events from average to great.

Using Appreciative Inquiry’s positive foundation and the Science of Happiness @ work in Corporate Team Building events.

The Appreciative Inquiry based approach supports the trend towards a more positive focus on strengths and what-is-working, rather than the old style problem-solving (Name, Blame & Shame) approach as the most effective way to approach REAL team building ideas.

RESILIENCE is also becoming a major need in companies today as competition increases globally. REAL leadership is required to guide, empower and inspire teams to greater performance in a sustainable way.

The Science of Happiness pays! And it… PAYS WELL…6 years of the Science Happiness at Work research carried out worldwide shows those employees who are happy or happier at work:

ü Are 180% more energized

ü Are 155% happier in their jobs

ü Are 108% more engaged at work

ü Are 150% happier with life

ü Love their jobs 79% more

ü Are 50% more motivated

ü Have 40% more confidence

ü Achieve their goals 35% more

ü Contribute 25% more

The real challenge… Most leaders and managers have had no simple way of getting…

· Appreciative Inquiry

· Resilience / AQ

· The Science of Happiness at Work (SOHAW)

…effectively into their organisations. From our past Appreciative team building experience with the Science of Happiness @ Work, we have distilled our wisdom gained into a few simple steps.

Make sure you incorporate these steps into your next team building events and provide a positive focus in your next company Team working Improvement day.


Free Tips for Smarter Team Building Events.

· Make sure that the entire group is involved, from all levels, and make it clear that negativity will not be entertained. Let it be understood that this is a Positive focus ONLY. And that each person is to agree to be a “BUILDER” with whatever comments, suggestions, thoughts and ideas they generate.

· Make it clear to everyone upfront that the focus and discussions will aim to build on strengths, past positive experience, what is ALREADY working in the team, and what else can be done to enhance this for the greater benefit of ALL.

· Make it safe for participation by everyone. Set ground agreements of what attitudes, comments and inputs will be allowed in the team building process – avoid naming, blaming and shaming!

· Set up a trust-level scale on the wall and invite people to mark their present team trust scores on the wall and move them during the day. Talk about what impacts and influences trust levels, and what can be done to improve them on a sustainable basis.

· Set up a Personal Happiness @ Work scale on the wall and invite people to mark their present happiness scores on the wall and to adjust as necessary during the day. Talk about what impacts and influences individual happiness levels, and what can be done to support people to improve and maintain them on a sustainable basis

· Set up talking-circles and get people to talk about positive past experiences around leadership, team building, and what they want more of at work.

· Get groups to agree and document what they will agree to STOP, START and CONTINUE back in the team workplace in order to build better trust, teamwork, happiness and performance.

· Make the learning fun, experiential and encourage participation and input from every person.

· Remove titles, position labels, and seniority advantages, each person takes on a new Identity /name of their ideal role model. Remove all form of authority, fear, reprisal for honest input.

· Make the team learning fun, experiential and encourage participation and input from every person in a “safe” space to share.

· Teach teams about RESILIENCE or AQ (Adversity Intelligence) and how they can individually, and as a team, enhance their self-talk and resilience levels – You need to ensure a 3 Positive to 1 Negative comment Ratio as a minimum. Excellent teams have a 6:1 positive to negative ratio in communications and conversations.
· Incorporate “archetypes” like Lover, Warrior, Magician, Sovereign. Intro the roles, qualities and characteristics and have fun using them to allow people to explore multi-perception position inputs. Eg my Lover says”... or my Warrior says...”
· Document and display Stop Start Continues and regularly discuss how you are maintaining the agreements made.
· If a consensus arises about what needs to be done to improve some area....take visible action to rectify and improve it ASAP and keep on providing feedback. Regular and clear communication is important.

· Do regular company team building events to build and maintain trust, relationships, communication clarity, effective leadership, happiness levels, resilience etc…


Do you Walk Your Talk?

Often the biggest challenge with staff and team building in the workplace is there is a lot of “TALK” from leadership and management, but very little “WALK”. It is a grave mistake to ask for input and then not act on it.

It doesn’t take long for people to see that you don’t value their input, and thereafter just disengage Trust is Bust....again! And Happiness levels crash to low levels too.

Too many leaders think “happy” staff are more productive – this is not always true. Resilient, challenged, engaged, energised and happy staff… deliver exceptional results in a sustainable manner.

By bringing the positive, focus on more of what-is-working approach of Appreciative Inquiry Team Building ideas, and the Self Responsibility aspects of the Science of Happiness at work, leaders can transform their culture from a destructive, politically hostile environment to a great place to work with higher resilience levels, greater happiness states and a more productive environment.

But remember it takes time to rebuild trust. It takes time for the people to see that you are really walking your talk. It takes time to change old habits and entrenched cultures. It also takes time to shift people old mental programmes that reduce resilience and happiness levels.

Through regular Ai based teamwork building events and SOHAW team activities you can begin to create a CultureShift from negative to more positive environment. This brings more available energy into your teams, more time on task, fewer sick days off, and a happier, healthier the workplace.

So next time you are looking for a company team building idea choose appreciative team building and The Science of Happiness at Work process to transform your teams and create a power-filled, positive, resilient, workplace culture.

Remember Employee engagement is controlled by Leadership and management –

Happiness at Work is controlled by each individual – So it’s a joint partnership to transform your teamworking between staff and management…So get smart and get appreciative and happy… fast!

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Tony Dovale is the Chief Team Building Coach at Life Masters South Africa. Tony is an Author, Keynote Business Speaker, Facilitator, and Results Alchemist. Life Masters Team Building events and Leadership Coaching incorporates Appreciative Inquiry, High Voltage Leadership, Nibble Knowledge, Emotionetics, Science of Happiness.

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