Team Building Information for Leadership Development at The Banff Centre
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Creative Ideas andInnovative Solutionsfor Teams
Infuse your conference, meeting, or retreat with energy and variety
Unique interactive team building options and creative experiences
Conference Facilitation Services
Custom Conference Facilitation
Find a unique conference facilitator,or customize a Leadership Development moduleto fit your needs.
Powerful Times & Possible Futures: Future Scenario Planning for Teams
No one can predict the future, but we all aspire to the possible.
Powerful Times & Possible Futures: Future Scenario Planning for Teams
• Examine the major forces that impact your organization
• Explore the implications of possible futures• Assess your employees’ preparedness
and adaptability to possible futures
The Handcrafted Team
Craft your team like a piece of finely made furniture: quality, legacy, and endurance.
The Handcrafted Team
• Examine the difference between groups and teams
• Explore what makes an effective team• Apply this knowledge to create an effective
team• Craft approaches to overcome common
team dysfunctions• Examine the stages of team development
PowerfulPresentations
Passionate and creative
speakers can energize your conference.
Plenary Session Keynote Facilitation
Living, Learning, and Leading like Leonardo: Theatre Performance
The Banff Leadership Arts Ensemble presents theatrical vignettes that explore Leonardo da Vinci’s seven steps to every day genius.
Beyond Golf™
Golf challenges both physically and mentally. Facilitator Richard Monette helps you work through elements of performance, and apply what you learn.
Beyond Golf™
• Engage creative competencies• Manage change• Cultivate deep listening skills• Enhance communication skills through
dialogue
Experiential• Outdoor & Nature-Based• Creative Learning Experiences• Personal or Team Assessment Tools
Outdoor & Nature-Based
High Ropes: Course Challenge
Learn about the powerful relationship between trust, risk, and results.
High Ropes: Course Challenge
• Cultivate team trust, support, and encouragement for each other
• Gain new appreciation for unique contributions and strengths
• Develop confidence and courage• Experience the value of effective
communication• Be amazed and have fun
Orienteering: A Strategic Challenge
Leverage the diverse strengths and resources within your team.
Orienteering: A Strategic Challenge
• Plan and implement strategy• Leverage team strengths• Leverage the power of collaboration and
effective teamwork• Align strategy and vision• Develop effective communication• Learn to challenge assumptions
Outdoor Team Challenge
Creative sequential problem-solving challenges help teams become more effective.
Outdoor Team Challenge
• Orient a team to new challenges• Examine individual team member strengths• Explore your preferred communication style
and be more effective• Solve problems through creative negotiation• Develop personal leadership capacity
Nature of Business
Local guide Keith Webb connects individuals and teams to the outdoors, to better understand sustainability.
Nature of Business
• Explore the creative aspects of business through an ecological lens
• Apply an ecosystem dynamic to the stages of business growth and development
• Examine the concepts of system thinking• Experience a unique group nature walk in
Banff National Park
Interpretive & Meditative Nature Hike
The natural environment of the Canadian Rockies inspires reflection.
Interpretive & Meditative Nature Hike
• Recognize the positive influence of reflective practice
• Settle into the rhythms of nature• Renew the body and mind• Examine profound questions of
connectivity and meaning
Creative Learning Experiences
Drumming Up Passionate Teams
Spark the creative potential and passion of your team using drums and other percussion instruments.
Drumming Up Passionate Teams
• Outline and reinforce community within the workplace
• Communicate through deeper listening• Adapt to change in a team environment
Creative Clay: Sculpting Your Team
The playful medium of clay helps explore ways
to create, and to re-create models for ideal teams.
Creative Clay: Sculpting Your Team
• Explore personal responses to change• Examine new techniques for enhancing
team performance• Increase awareness of how roles,
behaviours, and style influence team effectiveness
• Identify creative solutions to team challenges
Image Explorer: A Tool for Leading with Vision
Hundreds of compelling images enhance team dynamics through meaningful conversation, and explore complex organizational challenges.
Image Explorer: A Tool for Leading with Vision
• Enhance communication skills through dialogue
• Identify, understand, and act upon organizational challenges
• Discover new conversations and perspectives
• Examine complex topics with unique perspectives and curiosity
Leading Teams Creatively: The Improvisational Organization
Using narrative, storytelling, and improvisation, teams increase capacities for trust, risk-taking, and communication.
Leading Teams Creatively: The Improvisational Organization
• Build trust and engage in creative risk-taking• Experience whole-brain thinking and how it
relates to leading teams• Cultivate personal presence – the ability to
be centered and aware in each moment of communication
• Apply practical and complementary lessons from the theatre world when leading an organizational change process
Strategy Through Serious Play
Unlock and maximize human organizational potential by “playing with a purpose.”
Strategy Through Serious Play
• Learn to think using your hands• Convey meaning through metaphor• Experience novel and strategic thinking
by exercising your imagination• Respond creatively to sudden and
unexpected change
Leaderships Lens: Visual and Photographic Arts
Using images instead of words can help break blocks in thinking. Creating unique images can help symbolize the multiple perspectives of high performing teams.
Leaderships Lens: Visual and Photographic Arts
• Explore multiple perspectives on the influence of innovation and creativity on team performance
• Unleash creative leadership and team potential
• Develop aesthetic competencies useful for nurturing high performing teams
• Get out of the box and have fun
Personal or Team Assessment Tools
Developing Personal Strengths: Strength Deployment Inventory
Measure your individual value system both when things are going well, and when they are not.
Developing Personal Strengths: Strength Deployment Inventory
• Explore your own relating style• Learn to handle conflict through
team discussions• Build more effective and valuable
personal relationships
Tools for Thinking Teams: FourSight™ Thinking Profile
Find out how members of your team solve problems and approach challenges. A great springboard for innovation.
Tools for Thinking Teams: FourSight™ Thinking Profile
• Build more creative and innovative teams• Train for high level collaboration• Break barriers to collaboration• Understand team strengths to achieve
better results
Post-Program Team Systems Coaching and Development
Continue your learning and help implementation of new ideas with team coaching at 30-60-90 day intervals.
Post-Program Team Systems Coaching and Development
• Apply learning gained from Banff Centre sessions to after-program action
• Integrate on-site and off-site learning into a learning continuum
• Make practical ongoing use of the learning to shift how you operate as a team
• Gain exposure to guidance and support to apply theoretical models to practical workplace context