Team-building
Our team-building sessions have been developed to help team members learn about each other and build mutual trust.
Our 5 critical characteristics of high-performing teams provide the basis for discussion and analysis. They are:
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1. Shared Purpose
2. Good Communication
3. Effective Leadership
4. Mutual Trust
5. Synergy
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Like all the work that we do, these workshops are grounded in positive psychology and humanistic counselling techniques. Our facilitators act as guides through the process, empowering team members to draw upon their own observations to arrive at useful insights regarding their attitudes and behaviours.
Businesses
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Escape Manor for Business
Escape the ordinary for your next team building event!
We are proud to partner with Ottawa's #1 escape room experience, Escape Manor, to provide you with team building and professional development sessions that are both exciting and effective.
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Escape rooms offer an exciting experience that necessitates teamwork and identifies patterns in communication, leadership and trust.
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Workshop objectives:
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Get team members actively participating in solving problems and building a sense of cohesion.
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Learn the 'best practices' for successful escape room experiences.
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Relate these best practices to high-performance in your workplace.
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Identify team strengths and opportunities for development in communication and teamwork.
Format: Escape attempt and interactive workshop including team self-evaluation, feedback from facilitator on performance and identification of team goals.
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Timing: 2-3 hour, 1/2 day and full-day options available.
Visit Escape Manor for Business for more information.
In fact, very few people take the necessary time to identify and analyze their own
needs and motivations.
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Once properly identified and shared, this awareness creates synergy, as team members can more readily identify partners for effective collaboration depending on interests and abilities. To help teams achieve this level of synergy, we use a number of inventories and questionnaires, in conjunction with intrapersonal and interpersonal integration activities.
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Workshop objectives:
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Help team members better understand and integrate their interests, skills and values in their work.
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Spread this information throughout the team to create awareness and explore opportunities to create synergies.
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Build a plan to take advantage of complementary strengths and interests among team members.
Format: Interactive workshop including self-reflection, presentation of theoretical concepts and group discussion.
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Depending on the amount of time you have available for your workshop, some or all of the following inventories and questionnaires may be used:
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Vocational personality
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Character strengths
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Values identification
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Skills inventory
Timing: ½ day – multiple days, depending on size of group and time available to complete personality assessments in advance.
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Job Crafting: maximize meaning and create synergy
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The first step in making the most of your team’s diversity of talents is to identify team members’ interests, skills and values. While this may seem obvious, very few teams take the necessary time to fully understand each other’s needs and motivations.
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"As a newly formed team, Escape Manor for Business was a fantastic tool to help us better understand each
other’s strengths and how best to communicate as a group."
– Kimberly, Director, Occupational Health
"We were extremely pleased with Jay. He brought the optimal mix of humour, personal experience and
knowledge to help us identify our strengths on an individual and team level. He was very professional but also
down-to-earth which made the team feel comfortable in opening up and sharing their experiences and
opinions."
– Louise, Director General, Government of Canada
Schools
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Escape Manor for Students
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Escape the ordinary for your next leadership exercise!
We are proud to partner with Ottawa's #1 escape room experience, Escape Manor, to provide you with leadership and career development exercises that are both exciting and effective.
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Escape rooms offer an exciting experience that necessitates teamwork and identifies patterns in communication, leadership and trust.
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Workshop objectives:
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Get students actively participating in solving problems and building a sense of teamwork.
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Learn the 'best practices' for successful escape room experiences.
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Relate these best practices to principles of effective leadership.
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Identify team strengths and opportunities for development in communication and teamwork.
Format: Escape attempt and interactive workshop including team self-evaluation, feedback from facilitator on performance and identification of key leadership and teamwork principles.
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Timing: 2-3 hour and 1/2 day options available.
Visit Escape Manor for Students for more information.
“The escape rooms were above and beyond what I had expected. Each room had a unique and interesting theme and made it essential for everyone to participate in order to escape. In addition to the escape, we participated in a coaching session led by Jay Gosselin. He was a great speaker! The seminar was quite captivating and got us all thinking about our futures. I would definitely recommend Escape Manor and MentorU for schools.”
- Erin, grade 12 student leader