Team Building

Build the Best Team: Team Building & Inspiration

This team building workshop aims to enhance cohesion and effectiveness in the workplace. Through drama games, role play, improvisation and acting exercises, participants will be taught how to communicate with confidence. Each Team Building session provides participants with skills for engaging more effectively in work place situations.

Participants of Build the Best Team will learn how to:

  • Work together more effectively
  • Work towards a common goal
  • Build trust within the team
  • Listen more carefully

Expect the Unexpected: Play in a Day

This intensive session is designed to push participants creatively and improve their ability to work as a team. The purpose of this exercise is to devise, script and ultimately perform a new piece of theatre for stage.

“I spend my time avoiding team building sessions that may use acting skills as one of the elements! As it turned out I really enjoyed it. I was amazed how well our team worked together and picked up on each others cues – there seemed to be a natural
flow. Thank you for a fun and unforgettable experience.”
– Phillip Morris International

The “play in a day” session comprises of intensive workshops (acting techniques,devising, script development, etc.), rehearsals and a full performance on stage. The team will learn the necessary skills to put a driving force behind your ideas. From make-up and costume design to script writing and production, each facet of a full scale theatre show will be discussed.

Expect the Unexpected is good for:

  • Improving team communication skills
  • Building individual and group confidence
  • Understanding effective cross-team work and collaboration
  • Increasing impact and awareness of individuals within a team
  • Encouraging and celebrating creative thinking
  • Having fun and creating a memorable shared experience

Playing the Fool: Commedia Dell’Arte

If you can stand in front of an audience and make them laugh, you can give an amazing presentation! Commedia dell’Arte is the grandfather of modern comedy and has been making people laugh
for centuries. Through these classes your team will learn to connect with audiences and each other through the universal language of humour. Classes in movement, dance and comedy are all part of this intensive, fast paced and fun session. Participants will learn to express their own unique sense of humour and work together in a positive and relaxed atmosphere.

Playing the Fool is good for:

  • Improving communication skills
  • Understanding body language
  • Unlocking creativity
  • Gaining a greater understanding of others
  • Building confidence and overcoming inhibitions

Thinking on your Feet: Improvisation, Imagination & Creativity

Thinking on your Feet is a fast-paced, high-energy workshop built on the founding principles of improvisation. It will give your team tools to explore more creative, innovative and imaginative solutions to a wide range of business issues.

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
– George Bernard Shaw

Participants will learn how to develop the critical performance skills of being spontaneous, innovative, creative and authentic. It will enable participants to create work and present it to their colleagues in a fun and dynamic way.  This masterclass is ideally suited for those looking to enhance their creativity, build confidence, develop new skills and generate ideas quickly. It is designed to help participants to look outside the box in their approaches to making plans and solving problems.

Thinking on your Feet is good for:

  • Improving your ability to visualise
  • Leading change and innovation
  • Increasing your capacity to take risks
  • Making others feel safe to create
  • Solving real problems at work

For more information on how we can help tell you build a cohesive, unstoppable team, contact Anna at educate@gaietyschool.com