This guide should prove useful to trainers entrusted with organizing and running special events and training sessions with the accent on working with teams.
Author(s): Karen Cooley, Kirsty McEwan
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 168
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Part One: Getting Started......Page 14
1 Organising your Thoughts......Page 16
Part Two: Essential Information......Page 34
2 Cultural Diversity and Inclusion......Page 36
3 Health and Safety at Away Days......Page 42
4 Setting, Agreeing and Using Ground Rules......Page 46
5 Communicating your Away Day......Page 48
6 Using Facilitators and Specialists......Page 50
7 Handling Different Event Roles: Pilots, Shepherds, Playground Managers and Nannies......Page 57
8 Troubleshooting: The Best Laid Plans......Page 61
9 Icebreakers, Energisers and Team Exercises......Page 70
Part Three: The Legendary Away Days......Page 88
10 The Celebration Day......Page 91
11 The Challenge of Change Day......Page 97
12 The Conference Day......Page 104
13 The Consolidation Day......Page 110
14 The Consultation Day......Page 116
15 The Creativity Day......Page 121
16 The Decision Making Day......Page 128
17 The Morale Boosting Day......Page 133
18 The Planning Day......Page 139
19 The Problem Solving Day......Page 145
20 The Teambuilding Day......Page 150
Part Four: After the Event......Page 156
21 Evaluating your Away Day......Page 158
Appendices......Page 162
A: Precise practicalities checklist......Page 163
B: Room layouts......Page 164
C: Event requirement form......Page 165
D: Teambuilding pre-event questionnaire......Page 166
E: Brainstorming (Wordblasting)......Page 167
F: Creativity tools......Page 169
G: Ranking and rating......Page 172
H: Cause and effect analysis......Page 173
I: Signposts to team success......Page 175
J: Post-event leader self-evaluation......Page 176
K: Evaluation questionnaire (detailed)......Page 177
L: Group evaluation (quick zoom around)......Page 178
M: Faces evaluation questionnaire......Page 179
N: Event evaluation questionnaire......Page 180
Contact details for the authors......Page 182
O......Page 184
W......Page 185
