Virtual Experiential Team and Leadership Development Platform

该创新项目侧重于在2019冠状病毒病期间和之后支持远程领导和团队工作的必要性。该项目将颠覆体验式培训领域，提供首个举办体验式领导和团队建设活动的虚拟平台，使组织能够为其团队提供有效的自主学习或便利计划。此外，在线体验式培训课程将使领导力和团队发展课程能够为更多的团队和组织所接受。该项目有一些明确的目标；开发一个易于使用的在线平台，包含体验式培训课程，为远程领导和团队提供便利或自主学习。在线培训项目的基础是我们面对面的体验式学习项目，以及它们为领导者和团队提供的学习价值。至关重要的是，虚拟体验创造了类似水平的体验，刺激了真实的行为、有意义的对话和学习点，支持了领导力、绩效和团队弹性的提高。2019冠状病毒病提高了远程工作的水平，凸显了团队必须克服的许多挑战。例如，如果没有面对面的互动，我们如何培养团队精神？我们如何有效地招募新团队成员？我们如何有效地沟通，在共同的语言和方法上达成一致？我们的体验式课程将致力于支持团队制定行动计划，以应对这些挑战，并通过有效的远程工作提高组织的生产力。该项目旨在通过创新方法支持2019冠状病毒病后的新工作方式，为领导者提供新知识，帮助远程团队发挥优势，克服远程团队工作的挑战。该在线课程的另一个好处是，它将支持为在2019冠状病毒病后参加面对面研讨会的团队创建混合学习方法。通过使用技术，学习承诺和行动将被捕获以供反思和使用，这是团队发展过程的一个重要部分，在纯粹的面对面培训中经常被忽视。最后，这个独特的平台和培训计划将提高培训效率，改善组织的多样性和包容性，吸引更广泛的英国人才基础，并改善回归者的机会。附加信息：由于在设计阶段学习的结果，我们现在将建立自己的定制平台，而不是基于订阅的平台。它也将开发与能力，使我们能够整合和主办团队工作的游戏，已开发的第三方供应商。这将为我们的客户提供更广泛的选择，以支持他们的发展需求，并提供比计划更早使用学习和发展平台的长期干预计划。开发我们自己的平台和集成第三方提供商的结合也使我们能够专注于开发和学习内容以及可用性。此外，我们现在正在开发视频会议，使用Zoom和分组讨论室作为平台功能的一部分。这种视觉辅助将为参与者和主持人增加相当大的价值，让每个人都能看到彼此的肢体语言，这在讨论团队动态和沟通时非常重要。使用分组讨论室的能力将使团队能够在同一活动中同时在子组中独立工作，以及主持讨论组，为丰富的对话提供空间，特别是在审查会议中。通过一段时间的持续测试，我们将收到来自平台用户（最终用户、管理员和促进者）的反馈，我们将使用他们的意见来帮助确定待办功能的优先级，并给予那些具有最积极影响的功能更大的权重。如果我们发现当前的特性集达到了目标，我们将引入一些我们已经设计好的特性，这些特性现在已经包含在产品待办事项列表中。

This innovative project focuses on the necessity, to support remote leadership and team working during and post Covid 19\.The project will disrupt the experiential training sector with the first virtual platform to host experiential leadership and team building activities, allowing organisations to equip their teams with an effective self-directed learning or facilitated programme.Additionally the online experiential training programmes will enable leadership and team development programmes to become accessible to many more teams and organisations.The project has a number of clear objectives; to develop an easy to use, online platform containing experiential training programmes, enabling facilitated or self-directed learning for remote leaders and teams.The online training program has its foundations in our face to face experiential learning programmes and the value they provide to the learning achieved by leaders and teams. It is vital that the virtual experience creates a similar level of experience stimulating real behaviours, meaningful conversations and learning points, supporting improved leadership, performance and team resilience.Covid 19 has increased the level of remote working and is highlighting the many challenges teams are having to overcome. Such as, how do we cultivate team spirit without face to face interaction? How do we onboard new team members effectively? How do we communicate effectively, agree on a common language and approach?Our experiential programmes will work to support teams in developing action plans to combat these challenges and increase productivity for their organisation through effective remote working.This project moves to support the new way of working, post Covid 19 with an innovative approach, equipping leaders with new knowledge and helping remote teams leverage their strengths and overcome the challenges of remote team working.An additional benefit of this online programme is that it will support the creation of a blended learning approach for teams who are also engaging in face to face workshops post Covid 19\. Through the use of technology, learning commitments and actions will be captured for reflection and use, an important part of the team development process often overlooked in purely face to face training.Finally, this unique platform and training programme will promote efficiencies in training, improve diversity and inclusion in organisations, engage a broader UK talent base and improve opportunities for returnersAdditional Information As a result of learning in the design phase the platform we will now be build on our own bespoke platform rather than a subscription based platform. It will also be developed with the capability to enable us to integrate and host team working games that have been developed by third party providers. This will provide our clients with a wider range of choice supporting their developmental needs and provide planning of longer term interventions using the learning and development platform much earlier than planned. The combination of developing our own platform and integrating third party providers also allows us to focus on the development and learning content as well as usability.In addition we are now developing video conferencing using Zoom and breakout rooms as part of the platform functionality. This visual aid will add considerable value for the participants and the facilitators, allowing everyone to see each other’s body language which is so important when discussing team dynamics and communication. The ability to use breakout rooms-will enable teams to work independently in sub groups on the same activity simultaneously, as well as host discussion groups, providing space for rich conversations especially in review sessions. Through a period of sustained testing we will receive feedback from users of the platform (end users, admin and facilitators) we will use their comments to help prioritise the feature backlog, giving greater weight to those features that have the most positive impact. If we find that the current feature set is hitting the mark, we will introduce some of the features that we have already designed, and are now included in the product backlog.