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These styles are reflected in the way group members approach a particular task and work together. Groups can be effective and constructive, or they can be ineffective and defensive. Used after a real or a simulated exercise the Group Styles Inventory (GSI) assesses how the group worked together. Startling correlations have been discovered between the GSI results and the quality of the groups solutions. Use the Participant Guide to pinpoint dominant styles and develop improvement strategies. Group Styles Inventory Group Styles Inventory kit includes O Group Styles Inventory This self-scoring inventory consists of 72 items with a five point response option. O Participant Guide Includes style interpretations, improvement suggestions and an action plan for committing to changes. What GSI measures: Constructive Teams O work towards a consensus O generate superior decisions O enjoy high degrees of satisfaction O improve group and individual effectiveness. Passive Defensive Teams less than optimal solutions lack of individual initiative low levels of satisfaction feelings of frustration 22505 Group Styles Inventory Kit ....................................$20.00 GSI Scoring Supplement ........................................................$4.00 GSI Facilitator Materials General Certification Program This recommended three-day program will teach you how to de-brief the LSI, STYLUS, GSI and OCI. You will receive leaders guides and other facilitation aids as part of your fee. Please refer to page 25 for more information.
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GSI Leaders Guide This guide assists facilitators in understanding the twelve group styles, interpreting group results and how to combine the GSI with a simulation to create a dynamic teambuilding workshop.
22507 ........................................................................................$95.00
GSI PowerPoint Presentations A must A-V aid for every Group Styles debriefing.
22513 ........................................................................................$150.00
Aggresive Defensive Teams O individual agendas vs. group goals O marginal quality decisions O limited commitment to the group O impersonal, tensionridden process
Generic Circumplex Flipchart (bilingual - 25 per pad) Allow groups to draw their profiles to stimulate conversation. 23613 ................................................................................$50.00
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Team Development
Team Development
Acumen Team WorkStyles: 360 Feedback The TWS Others Kit includes O Paper or online, 94-item inventories (8 paper inventories or up to 30 online inventories.) O Processing and printing of 24-page report, including a 3-page self profile. O Team WorkStyles workbook 32113 TWS 360 Report. ..................................................$260.00 TWS Related Products TWS Group Report Pinpoint each teams strengths and weaknesses with a group report. This will encourage group members to concentrate on improving common areas.
32115 TWS Group Report..........................................................$60.00 32117 TWS Workbook ..............................................................$17.00 32119 TWS Leaders Guide ........................................................$215.00
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After their plane crashes in the desert, participants must rank 15 items in order to secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours. 12401 Participant Booklet ......................................................$7.50 12403 Leaders Guide ..............................................................$35.00 12405/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD) ..........................$189.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ..........................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ................................$25.00
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After their plane crashes in the Canadian north, participants must rank 15 items in order to secure the survival of their team. Time required: 1.5 to 2.5 hours.
12421 Participant Booklet ................................................................$7.50 12423 Leaders Guide ........................................................................$35.00 12425/9 Video Enhancement (VHS or DVD)....................................$189.00 92421 Survival Simulation Observers Guide ....................................$7.50 12495 Simulation Scoring Flipchart Pad ..........................................$25.00
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Remember: Experience is the best teacher but the tuition is very high. (So use a simulation!)
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Leadership Simulations
Improve teambuilding and group decision making in your management teams and improve their leadership skills at the same time. Use these simulations to kick-off your workshops or as culminating, show-us-what -youve-learned exercise. Either way, these simulations will become the highlight of your meeting.
Creatively improve the learned knowledge, skills and attitudes in your leadership workshops.
Coach
You have just accepted an invitation to coach a team that has lost five of their first six games in the current season. Identify the most appropriate approach, goals, selection strategies, training methods, and team talk objectives from 54 possibilities. Time required: 2.5 - 4 hours. 32421 Participant Booklet ................................................$34.00 32423 Leaders Guide ........................................................$49.00
Turnaround
You are a general manager in a large company that has just reassigned you to its failing blue jeans manufacturing plant. Develop a four-part plan for improving the plant, based on your review of the plants culture, production and financial reports. Time required: 4 10 hours.
12481 Participant Booklet ..........................................................$34.00 12483 Leaders Guide ..................................................................$60.00
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The simulations in our Business series provide the how-to knowledge your teams need to tackle common, yet demanding business problems and situations with expertise and confidence. At the same time, they strengthen the skills and behaviours your teams need to effectively and efficiently solve problems and make decisions.
Participant Booklet ....................................................................$7.50 Leaders Guide ............................................................................$35.00 Simulation Flipchart ..................................................................$25.00 Business Simulation Observers Guide ........................................$7.50
The Situation Your team has been assigned responsibility for designing a plan for managing a secret project.
The Challenge Sequence 20 activities in the order they should be followed in managing the project. Sequence 20 action steps in the order they should be followed to maximize the effectiveness of the meeting.
Increasing turnover rates in most of your stores requires that you call a meeting to discuss the problem.
2 - 3 hours
Sequence 18 action steps in the order they should be carried out to maximize service effectiveness. Envision a culture for quality for your store by ranking the impact of 24 behavioural norms on service quality.
A recent survey indicates that your store rates average in service quality and suggests your problem may be your stores corporate culture.
Training Tip
Build a dynamic, highly effective one-day Teambuilding workshop with: 1. Survival Simulation 2. Group Styles Inventory 3. Team strategy session 4. Business Simulation (with Observers) 5. Observers Feedback
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Team Development
Team Development
The Situation Concerns about the stagnating growth of a home health care supplies manufacturer require that you outline a change process for revitalizing the company. You work for a growing manufacturer of high-quality plastic parts and are a member of one of its continuous improvement teams. You are a member of your hospitals Institutional Review Board, which is responsible for evaluating research proposals involving human subjects. You serve on your organizations committee responsible for negotiating agreements and contracts with prospective partners. You are the manager of a business unit and must develop a strategic plan that is consistent with the mission and philosophy of the organization. You are responsible for developing new performance management guidelines and procedures that will be implemented throughout the organization. You are a project manager and must outline a standard process for managing projects within your organization.
The Challenge Sequence 17 activities in order of implementation to accomplish organizational change. Develop creative and workable solutions to five problems all of which are difficult to solve using traditional approaches. Rank 10 research practices in order of their relative permissibility or acceptability. Sequence 17 negotiation activities in order of implementation. Sequence 18 critical strategic planning activities to achieve a set of integrated plans. Sequence 20 performance management activities to improve performance.
1.5 - 3 hours
1.5 - 3 hours
1.5 - 3 hours
Sequence 24 typical project management activities to maximize the effectiveness of the project management process.
24 hours
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