The Sabre Approach to Team Building

A brief summary of some of the themes and issues underpinning our approaches to team and management development when delivering programmes for a client.

We help raise awareness of personal / team skills and behaviours:

What are they?
When do I use them?
How do I use them?

Sabre helps people and teams:

Establish their own effective operating methods.
Accept the benefits of regular process reviews.
Cope with change.

The Sabre approach:

Uses both experiential and workshop based tools.
Looks at how teams develop.
Relates team development to leadership, communication and cross-functional behaviour.
Identifies when we actually need team behaviours.

Encourages teams to develop themselves:

By looking at and knowing their own strengths and weaknesses.
Learning from their own regular process reviews.
Challenging preconceptions and assumptions.
Realising that their operating methods and behaviours can strongly influence their work environment.

Powerful learning experiences:

Our activities and experiences are different and unusual yet strongly mirror the workplace reality.
The impact of behaviour is clear in every activity to the team and to the individuals within the team.
Learning is memorable and enjoyable.
The theory behind each learning experience underpins and re-enforces the message.

People and teams actually live the learning:

What helped me / us in that situation?
What hindered me / us in that situation?
What were the benefits of changing my / our operating methods?
If we also changed this, could we do even better?
Why don't we do that at work?
Why did we go about it like that?
What made that project successful and that project a failure?

Learning in a non-threatening environment:

Attempting change with us involves no real business risk.
Successful change arising from these experiences can involve high business payback. � Experimentation is not only allowed, but highly encouraged.
The environment is supportive.
A realisation for team members that they are not alone in their doubts and fears.

Learning is relevant:

Conducted in a clear work related context.
Transferable clearly to the workplace.
Transferable to the individual and teams own operating methods and behaviours.

We make the learning explicit:

By raising awareness levels of behaviours and operating methods.
By recognising that the skills and styles of others may be different from ours but have equal value.

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The Sabre Approach to Team Building