The Team/Individuality Duality

Purpose:

To reconnect employees to the benefits of in-person teamwork and its role in personal and overall success. We might not be able to make you love being back in the office full time, but you can begin to appreciate why it’s a good idea.

  • Format: Workshop, Conference or Course

  • Category: Soft Skills

  • Themes: Revelatory, unifying, reset

Capability Gaps addressed:

a) Interpersonal communication.

b) Understanding and appreciation of colleagues.

c) Understanding of role in micro/macro.

d) Underlying involvement and empowerment.

The Business case:

a) Increased engagement and sense of belonging.

b) Empathy towards colleagues aids unity.

c) Understanding roles solidifies purpose.

d) All of the above helps productivity.

The (slow) elevator pitch:

If Hollywood is to be believed, the best teams are made of a ragtag bunch of misfits whose individual quirks combine to save the day. The reality is we’re all hyper-individuals who have all cultivated our own private online spaces where only the things we want to see get shown. We demand instant gratification delivered to our device or doorstep.

Wrangling these ‘selves’ into a cohesive unit can feel impossible - especially if they’ve recently had their flexibility to work remotely removed.

This workshop is part wake-up call, part epiphany. It explores the very essence of teamwork and how individuals can still stand out when putting team success first.

The content, examples and analogies featured in this workshop are refined for your industry/audience to increase engagement, relevance and retention.

Exploring the working reality of ‘team’ in a world of hyper-individualism.

WTF is hyper-individualism?

Thanks to mobile phones, the internet and social media, our worlds are personally curated to within an inch of their lives. These algorithm constructed realities promise much in the way of autonomy and satisfaction, but come at the cost of community, social responsibility and empathy.

How can one workshop speak to every individual?

There’s no finger-pointing or blame. We simply define the issue and invite every individual in attendance to connect with a way to overcome it. It isn’t rocket science, brain surgery, peer-reviewed or clinically-trialled. Sometimes pausing to look around can make all the difference - if you know what to look at.

Is this ‘woke’, DEI, hoo-ha?

Apologies. Was the mention of ‘social responsibility’ triggering? It shouldn’t be. It’s in our DNA. While the recent popularisation of gender, pronoun, and identity debate are a product of hyper-individualism, they’re not a focus here. It’s more about ‘do unto others’ if that’s a phrase you’re more familiar with.

What outcomes will we, as a team, get from this?

As a bare minimum you’ll gain an understanding of the underlying issues and what effect they have. Hopefully, this will pave the way for some revelations and personal epiphanies on they way to a reset towards a more unified workforce. Holding hands and singing Kumbaya while gently swaying is entirely optional.

Who is this topic aimed at?

Any modern workplace containing people. If that sounds disconcertingly vague or unhelpfully broad, it’s an unfortunate reality of the current state of things. There’s a general collective fugue about the place at the moment, and We Have Ways to help shake it off. So, yes, this topic is aimed at everyone.

But we’re not a ‘team’ we’re a ‘family’.

Ok, no you’re not. But even if you think or say you are, families are among the most aggressively diverse and fractious organisations imaginable. Have you ever been or lived with a teenager? Families are still teams for all intents and purposes for this exercise, so let’s just stick with that.

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