Team Building & Communication Skills
Team building workshops to create positive and healthy teams
Yeah, so, work can be stressful (duh). But science (and common sense) tells us that a positive, healthy workplace can take the edge off.
That’s why Head Strong dishes up a delicious menu of workplace leadership training and team building workshops designed to help your crew feel more connected, supported, and ready to tackle whatever the day throws at them.
Our workshops are built for grown-up brains – no trust falls or awkward icebreakers here. Instead, you’ll get:
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- Engaging activities that don’t make you cringe
- Real-world concepts you can actually use
- A good dose of fun, because learning doesn’t have to be boring
Check out our team building workshops below.
And if you’ve got something specific in mind? We’re all ears – and we love whipping up tailored training that hits the mark for your team’s unique needs.
Ready to get straight to it? We love that about you.
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Workplace Team Building & Communication Skills Training
Team Building with DiSC®
COURSE OVERVIEW
DiSC® is a personal development learning experience that measures an individual’s preferences and tendencies based on the DiSC® model. Each participant receives a personalised DiSC Profile report with insights that deepen their understanding of their own and others’ behavioural style, making workplace interactions more enjoyable and effective and facilitating increased engagement and collaboration within teams. You can download a sample of the DiSC Workplace Profile here.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Course participants learn about:
- The DiSC model and the four behavioural styles
- Their own behavioural style including strengths and challenges
- Strategies for interacting with other behavioural styles in the workplace to improve communication and collaboration.
DELIVERY
The DiSC program consists of four components: the online assessment, the individualised profile, the face-to-face workshop delivered in your workplace (either a 4-hour or full day workshop) and access to My Everything DiSC, an interactive learning portal that gives participants unlimited access to their completed profile(s), insights about DiSC and strategies for applying DiSC to real work situations. The portal also allows participants to access Comparison Reports at no extra cost. With Comparison Reports, any two participants can explore their similarities and differences, potential challenges in working together, and practical tips for improving their working relationship.
Social Connection: Finding Your Village
COURSE OVERVIEW
Recent research has shown that, despite our hyper-connected world, many of us have never felt more lonely. And chronic loneliness can be just as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Just as we pay attention to diet and exercise, we also need to pay attention to our social connections. This workshop explains why social connection is so important, and provides an opportunity for participants to connect with fun team activities.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants will learn:
- The case for connection and the health impacts of loneliness
- What neuroscience has to say about the ‘loneliness epidemic’ in many Western societies
- Simple strategies to increase social connection
- Developing your personal connection plan.
DELIVERY
This workshop is delivered face-to-face in your workplace for up to 25 participants. It is ideally delivered as a full-day team building workshop which incorporates team activities and opportunities for connection. Alternatively, it can be delivered as a half-day workshop that is still highly interactive and assists participants to develop their own social connection plan.
The Neuroscience of Engagement for Teams
COURSE OVERVIEW
This fun and interactive workshop provides participants with an understanding of five key factors drawn from social neuroscience that drive engagement and help facilitate positive team relationships. Participants will be encouraged to identify how these factors relate to their own wellbeing in the workplace, as well as considering how they may impact on their interactions with others. They will leave the workshop with an action plan and strategies to improve engagement and workplace relationships.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants will learn:
- Principles of neuroscience relevant to employee engagement and how we interact in the workplace
- Strategies for applying these principles in the workplace to improve relationships and psychological safety in teams
- Developing your team engagement plan for the workplace.
DELIVERY
This workshop is delivered face-to-face in your workplace for up to 25 participants. It is ideally delivered as a full-day team building workshop which incorporates team activities and opportunities for fun and positive interaction. Alternatively, it can be delivered as a half-day workshop that is still highly interactive and assists participants to identify strategies that can be applied in their workplace.
Mental Health Essentials
COURSE OVERVIEW
This practical and interactive workshop introduces staff to common mental health conditions and assists them to develop the skills to support each other in the workplace. It increases participants’ mental health literacy and confidence in supporting others who may be experiencing mental ill-health.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants will learn about:
- The early warning signs of mental ill-health
- How to approach a person in a supportive and appropriate way to talk about their wellbeing
- Options for accessing assistance.
DELIVERY
This is a half-day (4-hour) workshop delivered face-to-face in your workplace for up to 25 participants.
Workplace Communication
COURSE OVERVIEW
“It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it”. This workshop is an opportunity for participants to ‘get back to basics’ and re-think how they communicate with each other in the work environment to encourage a culture of respect and reduce the risk of workplace bullying.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants will learn:
- The definition of civility for the workplace
- Types of incivility
- Strategies for increasing civil communication and reducing incivility
- Applying strategies in your workplace.
DELIVERY
This is a half-day (4-hour) workshop delivered face-to-face in your workplace for up to 25 participants.
Lunchbox Learning Sessions
COURSE OVERVIEW
Lunchbox learning sessions are one-hour sessions designed to provide a short, sharp, fun introduction to a specific topic of your choosing relevant to resilience, team communication or leadership.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
You can choose from one of these topics or talk to us about your own ideas:
- Stress, resilience and your brain
- Mentally healthy workplaces
- Conversations about mental health
- The power of positive psychology
- Cognitive Reserve: Tips for Building a Bushy Brain
- Food and Your Mood.
- Strategies for Social Connection
DELIVERY
One-hour sessions delivered face-to-face in your workplace with groups of up to 40 people.
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