At the end of the year it is can be a great opportunity to bring virtual teams together. It's an opportunity to take stock of what the year was like and also look at what lies ahead for the current year. What do you have planned for your virtual team? Bringing people together could be as simple as hosting a one hour year end call, or as elaborate as bringing in an external facilitator (like us!) to facilitate a full day virtual (or in person) team building session.
In a year end activity you may want to:
Key questions you will want to explore during your time together include:
A couple of other tips:
It might be great to take it out of the office, provide a secret gift exchange amongst team members or even make it a regular activity for each quarter
What are the additional questions you want to ask and consider in your work together?
Curious about what might be possible for your team? Email me to discuss how we can support you in creating a memorable, and impactful, year end team event (in person or virtual).
Best
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Check out our newest on-demand course: Teams365 Teamwork Foundations
Follow us on Twitter @Teams365
I'll be hosting a 4 hour virtual retreat this Thursday between 12 - 4pm ET which is open to the public. Geared for business owners (or leaders) who are wanting to create their 2017 vision and business plan. More info here.
In a year end activity you may want to:
- Provide acknowledgement for what everyone has done
- Provide a summary of the different activities/milestones people have achieved
- Explore and set goals for the upcoming year
- Create your vision for the upcoming year
- Identify a theme for the upcoming year
- Schedule in key dates (the old adage being what doesn’t get scheduled doesn’t get done). As a team talk about the different activities you want to participate in in the new year. When will they happen?
- Have fun!
Key questions you will want to explore during your time together include:
- What’s been your biggest success this year? (Get each person to reflect individually)
- What’s been our biggest success?
- What have you learned about yourself?
- What’s important for you to do more of next year?\What’s important fo you to do less of next year?
- What doe you need to stop doing?
- Who do we need to build better relationships with?
- What activities need to be refined?
- How do we keep things on our radar screen?
- What can we do to augment or maximize our successes?
- What can we do to mitigate the downfalls we experienced this year?
A couple of other tips:
It might be great to take it out of the office, provide a secret gift exchange amongst team members or even make it a regular activity for each quarter
What are the additional questions you want to ask and consider in your work together?
Curious about what might be possible for your team? Email me to discuss how we can support you in creating a memorable, and impactful, year end team event (in person or virtual).
Best
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Check out our newest on-demand course: Teams365 Teamwork Foundations
Follow us on Twitter @Teams365
I'll be hosting a 4 hour virtual retreat this Thursday between 12 - 4pm ET which is open to the public. Geared for business owners (or leaders) who are wanting to create their 2017 vision and business plan. More info here.
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