Discover your Inner Newsreader

Uncover resources and capabilities in staff they had forgotten or never realised they had.

This activity is presented by writer, biographer and broadcaster Amanda Thomas, and Terry James, BBC and ITV editor and screenwriter. It helps people uncover resources and capabilities in staff that they had forgotten or never realised that they had in order that they can become more multi faceted within their job role.

It is enjoyable and controllable (biographers only have to reveal what they want to) exercise that will produce a more multi dimensional employee. In this difficult financial climate, this is the perfect way of identifying what roles employees’ fit best into and to utilise their talents and gifts, to give them and their company the best advantage in the marketplace. Instead of having to cajole staff to undertake duties, this team event will have them volunteering their services and the advantage to your company as a whole is potentially limitless! This also represents an excellent way of honing prioritising skills, presentation skills and in boosting confidence, especially in customer facing staff.

This activity begins with the group thinking back to their childhood and recording the highlights as a short chapter that they will then share with the group.

From this, others are invited to identify strengths and early promise that the biographer demonstrated and to question and comment on what the biographer has done since, with their early interests.  The group are then invited to bring their story up to date with the skills and achievements that they have to date.

BBC and ITV editor and screenwriter Terry James, videos the presentations and shows the participants how well they have performed.

During the process, the group are encouraged to remember the promise and the talents that they had as a child and young adult and identify which of those have carried through to their current employment and job role.   They are also asked to identify what skills they had (still have) that they could be applying to the role within their company.

The biography is now taken back to the childhood chapter and having heard what their colleagues have said about their early promise and having reviewed the early talents and gifts that they showed each biographer invents an outcome that those early talents and gifts might have led to, that is different to or even similar to their current situation and role within their company.

The group are then invited to invent different endings for each other’s life stories.

Duration: 1 day

Benefits to the employer of staff who attend this event:

• Staff discover or reacquaint themselves with forgotten talents and think about adapting these to their current job role
• The piece to camera honing and development of prioritising skills
• Presenting a précis of someone else life inspires group and individual
• Being filmed and having to be concise builds presentation skills
• Questioning colleagues on their ‘biography’ builds interview and information gathering skills
• In the ’imaginary’ outcome scenario new possibilities may become apparent and staff will be encouraged to think about what they could add to their role to make them more multi faceted
• Team building is achieved by opening up to colleagues about long forgotten childhood ambitions
• An objective view of themselves and their talents and capabilities is facilitated by others perceptions of their talents
• Optional feedback on staff performance and potential during the team event.

Location and Duration
For over 15 years, we have been delivering excellent team building events to businesses and public sector organisations in London and the South East, East Anglia and across the UK. Based in Suffolk means we are within easy travelling distance of Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, London, Hertfordshire, Kent, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Surrey and Sussex. We will also arrange a course anywhere in the UK or Europe.

We have designed the activities to be both enjoyable and adventurous for all members of the team, no matter what their level of fitness or ability.

If you are organising a conference, seminar or training event we can run a teambuilding activity to meet your needs. Just tell us:

• The learning objectives for your team event
• Number of delegates
• Time for the activity and debrief
• Venue logistics

We will do the rest – planning the event for you and supplying skilled trainers to ensure you get the outcome you are looking for.

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