Integrated Team Challenge

How do you successfully bring together different work processes or functions across diverse teams?  What happens when these same teams are working virtually?  Sounds a lot like today’s workplace?  That’s the intent!

The Integrated Team Challenge tests the best of teams to innovate, execute, meet aggressive performance measures and integrate diverse work processes or functions all while simulating a virtual team environment.

How does the Integrated Team Building Challenge work?

Using only the materials supplied, each team must create a life size structure capable of moving a ball bearing (the process) through a complexity of measures.

• Complexity:  Number of times the ball changes direction
  
  
• Time to Market:  Length of time the ball is in the structure
  
  
• Risk-Taking:  Number of times the ball drops to another level while in the maze
  
  
• Market Upswings:  Number of upward ascents of the ball from a downward decline
  
  
• Momentum:  Straight line distance from the drop point to the ‘customer’
  
  
• Quality:  Delivering the process successfully to the ‘customer’

The process gets increasingly complex when multiple structures must be ‘Integrated’ seamlessly under the pressure of time.  Add a few budget cuts that alter the availability of resources and you have an environment that requires adaptability to change.  Which team(s) will earn the most revenue points while managing the complexity of these measures and changing dynamics?  It’s not the fastest team that wins – rather the smartest team or the team that can think ‘outside of the structure’.

From mid-level teams to executive teams, the Integrated Team Challenge requires team members to think strategically while working across a virtual team environment.  Strong collaboration is a must to bring the multiple processes or functions together successfully.

Integrated Team Building Challenge Learning Outcomes:

Each program is tailored to the goals and objectives of the client.  Examples of possible learning outcomes are:

• Working across time, distance, and technology – building an effective strategy and plan for execution
• Team collaboration – multiple teams coming together to ‘integrate’ a diversity of processes for final execution
• Team roles – evaluating each team member’s ability and effectively managing team resources that will drive the team to a successful solution
• Virtual communication – a collaborative project without ‘seeing’ the other teams progress
• Effective management of time – managing strategy, innovation, evaluation of alternatives, execution, measurements and process improvements within a designated period of time
• Focused communication – aligning diverse team priorities into an overall integrated system

Integrated Teambuilding Challenge Sample Agenda

The program requires a minimum of 3 hours and can extend up to 6 hours depending on number of teams, level of integration, and complexity of structures.  Each of the phases below will be timed according to the final program timeline.

• Phase One: Team Foundation & Briefing
  
  
• Phase Two: Strategy, Design & Planning
  Team Leader Meeting at end of Phase Two
  
  
• Phase Three: Building
  A Series of Three Team Leader Meetings
  
  
• Phase Four: Independent Process Execution & Evaluation
  
  
• Phase Five: Process Integration
  
  
• Phase Six: Process Integration Execution & Evaluation

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