Team Development and Training - Why Companies Require Team Development

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organisational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Team development and training can have a huge impact on your company’s performance, boosting both productivity and staff morale.

Our proven, professionally presented team development programmes encourage teams to think as a unit and provide individuals and the team with the tools to develop a variety of interpersonal skills, including communication, leadership and motivational skills.

Your teams may be dealing with a range of issues at any one time, such as the need for:

• Enhanced trust and support
• Improved communication within a newly formed team
• Greater team efficiency.

BlueSky Experiences provide bespoke team development and training including:

• Facilitated Team Building
• Facilitated Team Development
• Leadership Development
• Project Working

 We use a variety of team development tools to facilitate the learning at either our modern, purpose-built Team Development and Conference Centre near Perth or at range of attractive venues throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK.

Our expansive range of indoor and outdoor experiential learning tools includes many challenging and exhilarating activities which can be incorporated, as appropriate, into your tailor-made team development programme.

In addition, we can simulate your team’s work environment in safe surroundings to optimise authenticity during the various training exercises and activities.

Our experienced facilitators will observe participants closely throughout the team development activities and feed back to your team on their behaviours, attitude and communication skills in a realistic and understanding manner.

During these feedback sessions, an open and honest approach is encouraged from all team members.

How experiential learning programmes can benefit your company

BlueSky’s customised experiential learning programmes will help improve your team’s development and overall performance, whilst at the same time ensuring each individual team member understands the significance of his or her own role and appreciates more fully the role played by others.

Through a process of needs analysis – which may involve psychometric testing to identify the roles of existing and potential team members – we can ascertain the areas of team development that would benefit from a structured training programme. Our professional course designers then devise a programme which is tailor-made to address the concerns and objectives relevant to your team.

How does experiential learning work?

Each BlueSky experiential learning programme is designed to ensure that it meets your specific requirements precisely and is completely unique to your company and its individuals.

Our wealth of team development experience and extensive range of learning tools mean that we can create a safe environment where natural behaviours and preferences can be observed and analysed in a relaxed but structured format.

Some examples of the experiential learning tools that form an integral part of our team development programmes in Scotland and the rest of the UK are:

• The Low Ropes course is an excellent experiential learning tool where trust communication, motivation and support are the key behaviours explored and analysed.
• The High Ropes course is available both at our Perth Team Development and Conference Centre and at Melville Castle in Edinburgh. This exhilarating Hi Ropes Course requires concentration and determination, having been specially designed to remove participants from their comfort zone and encourage them to explore their own boundaries. For this activity, trust, communication, motivation, support, confidence and teamwork are all essential.
• Building Bridges was developed specifically for Project teams, where a collaborative approach is required to achieve a common goal with multiple contingencies within a business scenario.
• Construction allows BlueSky to explore communication with new teams, where communication styles, preferences and behaviours are essential pre-requisites for the team reaching the performing stage.
• Psychometric Profiling Tools can be used throughout any intervention from prior to post team training. These tools allow our clients to monitor and evaluate team development, and thus to chart progress achieved.

Our reputation for excellence in team development and experiential learning programmes has grown rapidly since BlueSky was established in 2001.

Today companies throughout the UK and abroad acknowledge our proven track record in team development by sending successive teams to benefit from BlueSky’s unique delivery of experiential learning courses.

Moreover, our team development tool kit is completely flexible and mobile, so our team development programme can be delivered anywhere in the UK. Call now on +44 (0)1738 840804 to hear how BlueSky thinking can make a difference to your team development, or email us for more information.