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Mutual Understanding: The Skill That Turns Good Teams into Great Ones
The best performing teams demonstrate an almost unnatural awareness of what drives individual members and a fluid ability to shift support where it's needed. We all know those teams, whether it's sport or business, current or historical, that have transcended their potential to achieve greatness, and we can probably all recognise that it didn't ...
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The Art of Representation: Preparing Teams to Speak — and Act — for Each Other
There are situations in the life of every team when their work and views need to be represented by sending a team member to an external meeting. This may be a hierarchical situation where the team leader is required, or a matter of specialism where a subject matter expert needs to represent their colleagues. Either way it's imperative that the team...
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How to develop and maintain trust in teams
Teamwork is built on a bedrock of mutual trust, and can only be truly effective when each and every team member works within the climate that this trust engenders. This may be a simple statement, but the diversity of human nature and personality often mitigates against the establishment of the necessary trust. Regularly introducing an effective ...
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How to Develop Effective Team Leadership
There are many definitions of team leadership, but, at their heart, most will feature the need to somehow define a goal for the team, and then ensure that the team feel enabled to work towards that goal. There's a simplicity here that may be very easy to describe, but difficult to achieve if the leader is to stay in the 'sweet spot' that lies ...
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What Does Experiential Learning Offer? Four Insightful Experiences Outlined
Experiential learning offers more than just active participation – it opens up new ways of seeing, thinking, and engaging with the world around us.
The Four Insightful Experiences outlined below introduce experiential learning tools designed to extend perception – helping individuals and groups recognise fresh possibilities for change in both ...
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Voyage Mapping: Hard Back
£339.00
Learning Focus
- Business Planning
- Collaboration
- Goal-setting & Monitoring
- Group Management
- Risk Assessment
- Strategic Thinking
Group Size
2 - 6
2 - 8
Duration
30-90 Minutes
Voyage Mapping is a team or individual visual business planning tool that is used to help anticipate and manage potential future challenges - often by reviewing, reflecting, and discussing past experiences with team members. The activity uses visual metaphors of a sea journey to generate discussion of past and future challenges.
It enables them to review tasks, projects and processes they have undertaken and identify successes and failures, then using that review to inform planning and future risk management using individual perspectives within the group.
Many individuals and organisations use the metaphor of a journey to describe their experiences;
- “It’s been a long, hard road….”
- “It’s been an uphill struggle but I think we’ve reached the summit…”
- “We’re at a crossroads: we need to make a very decisive change in direction.”
This hardback version is ideal for groups of 4 to 8 people working around a conference table or on any flat surface.
The exercise uses the idea of an old-fashioned sea voyage to represent the way in which explorers brought back with them the accounts of the events and incidents which shaped their voyage and the ‘tales’ of what they discovered. These stories include new knowledge and skills that were acquired, dangers faced and overcome and accounts of the feelings, relationships and memories which they shared.
As these stories are remembered and explored, learning emerges that can then be used and applied in planning for future voyages of discovery. The activity is equally effective when used to reflect on an individual, personal or professional journey, or the journey of a group, team or organisation.
There are several versions of the activity which cater for different groups sizes and areas of focus.
The Voyage Mapping activity can work with groups anywhere between 4 and 16 people.
Check out the FAQs tab for details on the other Voyage Mapping Versions.
If working with metaphor/visual tools is of interest, then Click here for our guide to selecting the right image based activity for you!
Click the Webinar Video link below the image on the right to view a recording a live webinar introducing how to use and apply learning from the Voyage Mapping activity (all versions)
- Review and share experience from completed projects, challenges and tasks
- Identify and clarify the learning that is available from those past experiences
- Use the improved understanding of the past experience to anticipate and prepare for future challenges such as busomess planning or risk management
- What can Voyage Mapping be used for?
Voyage Mapping provides a set of resources that allows individuals and groups to work with a powerful metaphor for exploring the past and preparing for business planning or other future challenges. - How is Voyage Mapping Used?
The Voyage Mapping activity contains activities that enables participants to create visual business plans; potential project futures; review tasks, projects and processes they have undertaken to identify successes and failures.
They then explore the critical incidents and draw from those key learning points which they believe will have value in the future.
This reflective process helps to ensure that future mistakes can be avoided, problems and pitfalls can be anticipated and costly repetition or re-working minimised. - What size of groups can it accommodate?
This activity can work with groups anywhere between 2 and 8 people but around 6 per board is ideal.
We also have different versions for different group sizes:
Voyage Mapping Individual Coaching ,
Large Roll-up , and
Standard Roll-up versions
- Can I reuse the materials?
Yes,the pens are write on/wipe off and the stickers use only electrostatic cling to adhere to the board so contain no adhesive.
Cleaning Tip after several uses
After continued use some pen residue may be left on the maps, even if using write-on, wipe-off pens. In this case restore the surface like new by using a 'label remover' substance such as the one we use:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000IU3VSA/ref=pe_385721_37038051_TE_3p_dp_1
See https://vimeo.com/768587215
Activity Contents:
- 1x re-useable laminated hardback map (119cm x 59cm)
- 5x sets of 15 cartoon image metaphors
- 1 x set of 3 different write-on wipe-off pens
- 1x set of Charting the Future cartoon keys
- 1x Charting the Future brief
- 1x set of Reflecting on Past Experience cartoon keys
- 1x Reflecting on Past Experience brief
- Comprehensive facilitator guide explaining how to set up, manage and review the activity
Package Weight: 3.2kg
Cleaning Tip
After continued use some pen residue may be left on the maps, even if using write-on, wipe-off pens. In this case restore the surface like new by using a 'label remover' substance such as the one we use:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000IU3VSA/ref=pe_385721_37038051_TE_3p_dp_1
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