Team Building

Our consultants have led a variety of away days, retreats, conferences and reviews for teams and working groups.

Planning meetings with managers of teams are an integral part of such events.

• the headquarters and team managers of a probation service management team explored conflicting views of the core values of the service (two days);
  
  
• the marketing department of an information technology company gained a better understanding of how it was relating to production, and the marketing director took up his managerial function more effectively;
  
  
• health and social services staff responsible for community mental health met in teams to compare and clarify views of their own and each other's roles (one day);
  
  
• workers in a voluntary counselling service for adolescents identified and began to tackle the sources of antagonism between volunteers and paid staff (one day);
  
  
• staff in a small start-up company evolved a series of monthly meetings to make more explicit how their roles and relationships with each other were unfolding;
  
  
• social work and administrative staff in an inner city area used role play, and work in pairs and groups, to find ways of making the stress of their work manageable (one-and-a-half days).

OCS staff worked with each client organisation in identifying the issues that needed to be explored and designing appropriate methods.