Manager.LT Academy Teambuilding Programs [cunducted in english]

Manager.LT Academy has created and now offers practical teambuilding programs for all workgroups. We organize various teambuilding activities under different topics and levels of physical and mental difficulty. Naturally, more physically and mentally extreme programs are conducted under strict supervision of the professional specialist and instructors. Our aim is to deliver a deeper insight in teambuilding processes and give a personal experience that the participants can use in their everyday work.

Training techniques. Participants engage in a number of tasks which in turn demand full dedication from a team, and are achievable only by the employment of the effective communication and cooperation between the team members. Those tasks encompass:

Information gathering,
Situation analysis and risk assessment when one deals with the team task planning,
Role division and allocation in order to exploit both the strong and the weak spots of every participant when seeking a successful accomplishment of the task.

Besides, the teams work is stressed furthermore by adding time limitations, competitive element, and other factors.

Though training is a serious business in itself, we believe that it must produce a good self esteem and improve the overall team climate. Thus, we try to employ as much humour as possible.

Manager.LT Academy teambuilding application benefits for:

Already working teams (both for employees and/or managers and employers), it provides a perfect opportunity to “chill out”, improve mutual trust, communication, initiative and thus the productivity. At the same time it is a fun and useful way for a spare time activity (three days of teambuilding = two weeks on the Caribbean).

Newly formed groups, it allows to shorten the time needed for the unavoidable period of frictions and storming. It helps to evaluate the compatibility of the team members. It solves those small “domestic” conflicts, and does this all during initial stages of the team formation without transferring the problems into the working environment.

Employers/managers, it enables them to discover the hidden resources and talents within their own teams. It allows evaluation of the leading capabilities of lower level managers and leaders, identification of the tensions, frictions and other problems. Most importantly it improves the productivity of the group as a unit and of the group members as individuals.

Teambuilding Programs Package

Our program package can be divided into three levels of mental and physical hardness:
„Practice“, „Extreme Practice“ and „Super Extreme Practice“.
Time limits, physical activity and extreme stress activate participants and provide a certain “pressure” allowing for the quicker teambuilding process.
Program is chosen by the customer with the help of our advisors, taking into the account customer’s needs and aims for the teambuilding.

„Practice“ programs:

Purpose
Physically and mentally undemanding programs. Meant for employees working within teams, workgroups and sections, as well as for managers and executives who are to conduct close interaction, and for any groups with the desire to learn each other better.

Aim

To stimulate building of team related bonds within group,
To improve communication,
To quicken cooperation processes,
To help team members understanding their roles within workgroups,
To help managers identify undiscovered talents in teams.

„Extreme Practice“ programs:

Purpose
Physically and mentally demanding programs. Meant for employees working within teams, workgroups and sections, as well as for managers and executives who are to conduct close interaction, and for any groups with the desire to learn each other better. Better suited for companies that need a faster teambuilding process, which could repay in a quicker shift to an improved productivity.

Aim

To stimulate a faster building of team related bonds within group,
To improve communication and trust,
To quicken cooperation processes,
To help team members understanding their roles within workgroups,
To help managers identify undiscovered talents in teams.
To help managers begin teamwork with their groups in an informal surrounding,
To enable a mental and physical “chill out”.

„Super Extreme Practice“ programs

Purpose
Very physically and mentally demanding programs. Meant for those that not only want to get „teambuilded“ but also to face some more or less challenging situations and thus escape from urban life and work routine. Those are best suited for final teambuilding phases – in order to check teams’ readiness and strength of their relations or otherwise for the teams that will work under more strenuous conditions.

Aim

To create controlled extreme situations in order to give participants a greater self-esteem and trust for the other team members,
To consolidate bonds within the team,
To give one a challenge.

Teambuilding Programs

„Practice“ programs:

Name	Short description	Duration*
„Treasure hunt in a city“	A number of tasks which are arranged so that the team finally must find a hidden “treasure	2 d.
„Country house“	Teambuilding activities in a country house environment.	3 d.
„Classroom1“	Classical teambuilding activities in a conference hall.	2 d.
„Classroom2“	Classical teambuilding activities in a conference hall.	2 d.
„Backyard“	Classical teambuilding activities conducted outdoors (best suited for warmer season).	2 d.
„States“	Several teams play the “States” acting as independent countries.	2 d.
„Medieval craftsmanship“	Teambuilding in the style of “do it yourself” using medieval crafts.	2 d.

*Duration and location is dependable on the purposes, aims and customer’s needs.

**Price is provided only as approximate value, as it depends on the duration, number of participants, location, and any additional reprogramming to meet customer’s needs. A more exact program cost estimate is provided after customer’s need assessment.

Benefits for the company

Group as well as individual productivity increases.
Employees’ creativity increases.
The possibility is given to reduce frictions and small conflicts in an early team building phase.
The most of possible conflicts are solved in a non-work environment. The team’s/company’s work is protected from small and unnecessary obstructions.
Team members increase their initiative, and self developing.
An opportunity is given to develop and learn in an informal, interesting and appealing environment.
Team/group can communicate in non-work situations thus reducing stress, strain and misunderstanding.
Uncovers hidden talents and skills.
Trust, common support and communication are significantly improved.
Team becomes far more versatile and thus is more suitable for company to use.

„Extreme Practice“ programs:

Name	Short description	Duration*
„Boot Camp“	Teambuilding in a form of military boot camp.	2 d.
„War of two camps“	Teambuilding activities in competition between two “warring” camps.	3 d
„Hiking with kayaks“	Teambuilding activities while hiking with kayaks.	3 d
„Hiking with bicycles“	Teambuilding activities while hiking with bicycles.	3 d
„Hiking on foot“	Teambuilding activities while hiking on foot.	3 d
„Integrated hiking“	Teambuilding activities while hiking with kayaks, bicycles and on foot.	3 d
„Treasure hunt“	A number of tasks which are arranged so that the team finally must find a hidden “treasure” somewhere in the terrain.	4 d.
„Orientation competition“	Teambuilding activities while orientating in the terrain.	2 d.

*Duration and location is dependable on the purposes, aims and customer’s needs. **Price is provided only as approximate value, as it depends on the duration, number of participants, location, and any additional reprogramming to meet customer’s needs. A more exact program cost estimate is provided after customer’s need assessment.

Benefits for the company:

Provided that higher management participates with their subordinates, it will improve the communicating process, lessen the natural frictions between hierarchic frictions and improve the subordinates’ understanding for the incoming instructions and directives from the “higher echelons”.
After day or two of active teambuilding employees will recover from working routines thus reinvigorating their motivation and spirits.
Group as well as individual productivity increases.
Employees’ creativity increases.
The possibility is given to reduce frictions and small conflicts in an early team building phase.
The most of possible conflicts are solved in a non-work environment. The team’s/company’s work is protected from small and unnecessary obstructions.
Team members increase their initiative, and self developing.
An opportunity is given to develop and learn in an informal, interesting and appealing environment.
Team/group can communicate in non-work situations thus reducing stress, strain and misunderstanding.
Uncovers hidden talents and skills.
Trust, common support and communication are significantly improved.
Team becomes far more versatile and thus is more suitable for company to use.

„Super Extreme Practice“ programs

Name	Short description	Duration*
„Short survival school“	During following days participants are made familiar with the basic surviving techniques. As well they do some practical survival tasks.	2 d.
„Survival school“	Participants are familiarized with full spectrum of survival techniques and practical survival tasks. They compete in given survival tasks.	4 d.
„Survival in the wild“	Participants are placed into a controllable survival situation and must do for themselves. They are also provided with additional tasks that they must accomplish during following days.	4 d.
„Survival march“	Participants are placed into a controllable survival situation and must do for themselves as they transport the whole team from the present spot to a designated terrain. They are also provided with additional tasks that they must accomplish along the way.	4 d.
„Escape from captivity“	Participants find themselves in a simulated escape situation and must survive and avoid pursuers.	5 d.

*Duration and location is dependable on the purposes, aims and customer’s needs.

Benefits for the company:

One can identify which employees are better suited for more stressful situations, and which are not.
Participants get a chance to raise their self esteem. Mutual trust that builds under these conditions can be described as “I would go through water and fire with him/her”
Managers get an opportunity to discover strong and weak spots of his/her team in a crisis and stressed situation.
The following teambuilding effects are strengthened and finalized:
1. Group as well as individual productivity increases.
2. Employees’ creativity increases.
3. The possibility is given to reduce frictions and small conflicts in an early team building phase.
4. The most of possible conflicts are solved in a non-work environment. The team’s/company’s work is protected from small and unnecessary obstructions.
5. Team members increase their initiative, and self developing.
6. An opportunity is given to develop and learn in an informal, interesting and appealing environment.
7. Team/group can communicate in non-work situations thus reducing stress, strain and misunderstanding.
8. Uncovers hidden talents and skills.
9. Trust, common support and communication are significantly improved.
10. Team becomes far more versatile and thus is more suitable for company to use.
Provided that higher management participates with their subordinates, it will improve the communicating process, lessen the natural frictions between hierarchic frictions and improve the subordinates’ understanding for the incoming instructions and directives from the “higher echelons”.
After day or two of active teambuilding employees will recover from working routines thus reinvigorating their motivation and spirits.

A more detailed description as well as preliminary cost estimate is provided after customer’s request.

Main teambuilding training manager/advisor:

Ugnius Vaisnora. He has studied personnel management and public administration at Lithuanian Military Academy, leadership and teamwork at Halmstad (Sweden) Military Academy. He has a broad experience in leadership and teamwork as former instructor at military Leader Training Center. He worked as a platoon commander and thus aquired necessary experience in practical leadership. He also conducted several training programs as part of his job in training batalion. He now prepares, organizes and conducts trainings in the fields of teambuilding, teamwork, effective management and leadership.