Do you know how to take your team to the next level?

Testimonial from Learning and Development Team Leader, Mitre10:  After having introduced our People Managers at Mitre10 to the High Performing Teams workshop, we received overwhelmingly positive feedback and a request that we roll a similar workshop out to the rest of the Support Centre teams.

Some of the feedback that we recently received:

“This was a very informative and interesting course, something I can apply outside of work as well.”

“This is very valuable, made me think about my role in the team and which other roles we need, to form a high performing team.”

“Wow, it can be used at home as well, with my family. So interesting.”

The ‘High Performance Teams’ Management Bite 3 hour module takes managers through the following:

• Recognising the 4 team stages and how to take your team to norming
• If you are ready to move to high performance - what are the roles that you need? What roles do you play? How can you build this with your team?

Online Assessments

You can also purchase online Belbin assessments as part of the workshop. These cost $125 per person. Each participant gets a personalised report as well as a group report. Some companies also choose to run all of their teams through the online assessment so that you can see your entire company profile!

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Belbin reports are $65 only for 14 - 17 December.

• If you’d like more information about how the  workshops could work for you please do email us and fill in the details and we will provide you with a full proposal.
• Or you can purchase the module to run yourself.
• We also have a team of accredited facilitators who can come and run the workshops for you. Again please email us if you would like a quote for this.

Many people have heard of the stages that teams go through - from forming to performing. But not much focus is put on how do you move your team forward rather than waiting for it to happen. There are tools and techniques that you can use to move your team through which are covered in Management Bites the book and the workshop. However the interesting thing is that once you get them to norming, the next step is to reach high performance. But what makes up a high performance team?

In the 1970’s Dr Meredith Belbin and his research team at Henley Management College wanted to find out what made high performance teams. They had an idea that it might be about IQ. The more intelligent the people in the team were, the better they would perform.

But the team with the highest IQ (the Apollo team) didn’t perform well.

In fact, what they found was that the success of the team was actually about having 9 different functions in a team being covered. You needed someone who could come up with ideas, explore opportunities, keep people to time, focus on the results and a few other essentials. The teams that had these 9 roles covered - were the highest performing!

You don’t necessarily need 9 people in a team as  people can perform more than one role each - but to reach high performance you do need them all covered!

Workshop Options

Purchase Options

Facilitated Workshop

Whether you want to run a half day workshop, or put several modules together into a 1 or 2 day programme, our Global Accredited Facilitators can come and deliver this for you.

All have significant experience in designing and delivering management workshops and programmes.  They are able to adapt to any audience, and embody the philosophy of the management bites programme – training that is practical, useful and fun.

Online Module

You can’t always get managers together for a workshop - or you may just have one or two managers who would like to complete this  training - so the online module is the way to do this.

Comprising of a number of video’s to watch, quizzes to take, case studies to analyse and actions to make - this module is interactive and the next best thing to coming to the workshop itself.  Priced at just NZ$45 or GBP£22 per person.

Self-Run Workshop

Want a facilitated workshop but without the cost of having someone externally come in to run it? Try a self-run workshop instead! These are designed for anyone to be able to ‘lead’ the workshop.

The Workshop ‘Lead’ has access to a special online module which has videos to play during the workshop, and then guidelines on how to run a discussion following the video. They also have some special training sections run by Angela Atkins to prepare them to lead the workshop.

This also helps build training and facilitation skills for the Workshop ‘Lead’. An extremely cost effective solution at NZ$95/ GBP£45 per person for a workshop so you can run it for just a few managers or for many! The price includes:

•  each attendee having access to an online assessment
• printed workbooks for all attendees
• Access for the Workshop Lead to the online training session with Angela Atkins and the online workshop ‘lead’ module.

Off the Shelf Workshop

Do you have experience facilitating or running training workshops, but not the time to develop the materials yourself, test them out, refine them and then finalise them? Our off the shelf workshop may be the solution for you!

With each workshop you get:

• A set of PowerPoint slides you can customise with your logo.
• A set of A5 workbooks so that managers attending can take notes. Further workbooks can be purchased if you are running this for 13+ managers.
• A Facilitators guide that has notes on how to present each slide and corresponding section in the notebook. These are not ‘scripts’ of what to say, but key messages of what to include so that you can add your own wording to the workshop.

Step by step practical advice, tools and techniques on how to manage your team. Buy a copy for every manager in your business!

The bites books