Team Cohesion: Shaping Your Effective Team

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Effective teams don’t happen by accident. As workplaces navigate changing expectations, new and long-standing colleagues, and in-person, remote and hybrid ways of working, strong communication, trust and connection become increasingly important.

This highly interactive workshop explores the research behind effective teams and helps participants understand their own contribution to team dynamics. Participants examine psychological safety, communication, individual strengths and the behaviours that help teams work effectively together. They leave with practical individual and team actions they can put to work immediately.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

• Teams wanting to strengthen communication, trust and collaboration
• In-person, remote and hybrid teams
• Teams integrating new and long-standing colleagues
• Teams experiencing change or transition
• Teams looking to improve connection and overall effectiveness

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:

• Individual strengths and how they contribute to the team
• Key components of effective teams
• What psychological safety is and how to strengthen it
• How individual behaviours influence team relationships
• Behaviours and habits that support team growth
• How to develop practical individual and team action plans

COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction

• Setting objectives and intentions
• Exploring the foundations of play and how we learn
• Easing into experiential work

What Makes Teams Effective?

• Exploring research on effective teams
• Understanding dependability within teams
• Creating structure and clarity
• Finding meaning in our work
• Understanding the impact of our work

Building Psychological Safety

• Understanding psychological safety and why it matters
• Recognizing behaviours that build or undermine psychological safety
• Creating space for contribution, questions, ideas and mistakes
• Building trust and connection within teams

Growth, Resilience and Adaptability

• Understanding resilience and adaptability
• Exploring how discomfort contributes to learning and growth
• Introducing neuroplasticity and our capacity to change
• Developing habits that support individual and team growth

Developing the Action Plan

• Identifying opportunities to strengthen team cohesion
• Establishing individual commitments
• Developing shared team actions
• Turning learning into practical next steps

Summary and Evaluations

• Review of key learning
• Final reflections and commitments
• Workshop evaluation

METHODS TO BE USED

This workshop is highly interactive and uses Play-Doh Power Solutions, a hands-on experiential learning methodology that combines tactile creation, colour, metaphor, reflection and facilitated discussion. Participants engage in individual and team exercises designed to explore concepts such as resilience, psychological safety, communication and adaptability in a memorable and practical way.

Research and neuroscience-informed concepts are combined with experiential activities, workplace discussion and action planning so participants can connect the learning directly to their own team.