Hydroactive offers the following services - Treasure hunts, corporate entertainment events, jobseeker confidence building events for Fern and New Deal, Team Building, Stag and Hen parties and Prince's Trust teambuilding events.

Treasure hunts are a great form of corporate entertainment or as a team building exercise. Amongst the wide variety of corporate events and Team Building events that Hydroactive (UK) Ltd offer are motorised events (pilots, quads, 4x4 offroad, etc), archery, laser clays, Spy Games, It's a Knock Out . For individuals, we arrange hen and stag events, NGB training in Kayaking and other disciplines such as the GNAS in Archery, high and low rope courses, First aid, BORDA offroad driving, SPA climbing award . Non-corporate team building is a speciality, with regular work for midlands based Prince's Trust providers and New Deal confidence boosting courses for jobseekers.

Teamwork

Teamwork is the concept of people working together to achieve a common goal.

The concept has spread from the world of sports where team building is well known and accepted, to business, so much so that it is in danger of being considered by some as an empty buzzword, or a form of corporate-speak. Team Building is very often despised by corporate employees. An interesting for of team building is obviously the way forward. That is where Hydroactive Team building and corporate events score. In the 21st century, as people are becoming more sophisticated and society is becoming more technically advanced, working as a team makes it easier to accomplish goals. Some things cannot be accomplished by people working individually. Larger, ambitious goals usually require that people work together with other people. Anyone who has ever been to a job interview will invariably be asked what the concept of teamwork means to them. The reason for this is because companies today want people who are team players, people who are able to get along with their colleagues and work together in a cohesive group. Because teamwork is the desired goal of many organisations today, they will often go to the effort of coordinating team building events in an attempt to get people to work as a team rather than as individuals. Contents

Skills Needed For Team building and teamwork

There are seven essential skills that one must learn in order to be able to successfully adopt the concept of teamwork. These skills are:-1. Listening - it is important to listen to other people's ideas. When people are allow to freely express their ideas, these initial ideas will produce other ideas. Hydroactive team building develops this skill in a variety of different ways. 2. Questioning - it is important to ask questions, interact, and discuss the objectives of the team. One of the key features of Hydroactive team building corporate events is the emphasis given to questioning. 3. Persuading - individuals are encouraged to exchange, defend, and then to ultimately rethink their ideas. Any Hydroactive corporate team building event will put your team in situations where persuasion and negotiation are important to the success of the team. 4. Respecting - it is important to treat others with respect and to support their ideas. This is at the centre of Hydroactive team building activities. 5. Helping - it is crucial to help one's coworkers, which is the general theme of teamwork. Teams will need to build this skill in order to succeed on our team building activities.6. Sharing - it is important to share with the team to create an environment of teamwork.7. Participating - all members of the team are encouraged to participate in the team. Those who don't, hinder the team's chances of success.

Team Development
The forming-storming-norming-performing model takes the team through four stages of team building and development and maps quite well on to many project management life cycle models, such as initiation - definition - planning - realisation. Forming In the first phase, the forming of the team takes place. The team meets and learns about the opportunity, agrees on goals and on the resources necessary to tackle the task. Team members tend to still behave quite independently. Every group will then enter the storming stage in which different ideas compete for consideration. During this phase, the team addresses issues such as what problems they supposed to solve, how they will function and what leadership model they will accept. This is a crucial time for introducing team building activities. The storming stage is necessary to the growth of the team. At some point, the team will enter the norming stage. During this phase, team members adjust their behaviors to each other as they developing working habits that make the teamwork seem more natural and fluid. Team members often work through this stage by agreeing on rules, values, shared methods, working tools and even taboos. During this phase, team members begin to trust each other. Motivation increases as the team gets more acquainted with the project. Team building activities can help greatly with this stage. Some teams will reach the performing stage. These high-performing teams are able to function as a unit as they find ways to get the job done smoothly and effectively without the need for external supervision.

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