ABSTRACT

Building strong, responsive, teams is one of the key factors in putting your organisation ahead of its competitors. So why do many teams fail to deliver to their true potential? The answer is that even when the commitment and the will to succeed exist, hidden pitfalls lay in wait to foil the best intentions of managers and team leaders. This book will enable you to avoid tripping up and so produce teams able to take effective action before problems arise. Legendary Away Days is a complete and invaluable guide to planning and delivering team events suited to a wide range of circumstances including problem-solving, teambuilding, boosting morale and making decisions. Concise and practical, it covers choosing an appropriate event, organising and running the day, keeping control, using external experts and evaluating your event afterwards. Focused on best practice throughout, the book also provides help on ensuring your event is legally protected. If you want your teams to look back on their Away Days as legendary then this is the book you need.

part |2 pages

Part One: Getting Started

chapter 1|18 pages

Organising your Thoughts

part |2 pages

Part Two: Essential Information

part |3 pages

Part Three: The Legendary AwayDays

chapter 10|6 pages

The Celebration Day

chapter 11|7 pages

The Challenge of Change Day

chapter 12|6 pages

The Conference Day

chapter 13|6 pages

The Consolidation Day

chapter 14|5 pages

The Consultation Day

chapter 15|7 pages

The Creativity Day

chapter 16|5 pages

The Decision Making Day

chapter 17|6 pages

The Morale Boosting Day

chapter 18|6 pages

The Planning Day

chapter 19|5 pages

The Problem Solving Day

chapter 20|6 pages

The Teambuilding Day

part |2 pages

Part Four: After the Event

chapter 21|4 pages

Evaluating your Away Day

part |1 pages

Appendices

chapter |1 pages

A Precise practicalities checklist

chapter |1 pages

B Room layouts

chapter C|1 pages

C Event requirement form

chapter |1 pages

D Teambuilding pre-event questionnaire

chapter |2 pages

E Brainstorming (Wordblasting)

chapter |3 pages

F Creativity tools

chapter |1 pages

G Ranking and rating

chapter |2 pages

H Cause and effect analysis

chapter I|1 pages

I Signposts to team success

chapter |1 pages

J Post-event leader self-evaluation

chapter |1 pages

K Evaluation questionnaire (detailed)

chapter L|1 pages

L Group evaluation (quick zoom around)

chapter |1 pages

M Faces evaluation questionnaire

chapter |2 pages

N Event evaluation questionnaire

chapter |2 pages

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