Bridge the Gap: a Collaborative Team Building Experience
Understand where you are now and where you want to go. More importantly, develop the capacity to get there.
91.7% of participants would recommend this program to a friend or colleague.
Identify the Gaps on the Path to Success in this Collaborative Team Building Experience
Bridge the Gap is a collaborative team building experience engages your team to identify your company's vision by understanding where you are now as an organization, where you want to be, and the gap that is standing in the way of success.
Together, program participants define priorities and the necessary actions needed by owning the transformation process, and bridge building. Then, they create an implementation plan and measurements for their own success.
How a Bridge the Gap Session Runs
A session runs as one continuous piece of work rather than a set of exercises. Participants open by mapping the current state out loud: what is true today, described by the people who see it every day. Most rooms find their first gap right here, before anyone has mentioned the future.
The group then names the destination in plain words and tests it. A destination only one function can describe is not shared yet. The facilitator holds that question open until the room can say it the same way.
Next the group finds what stands between the two. Priorities get ranked, and the ranking gets argued in the room instead of settled afterward by email. Each priority picks up its actions, a named owner, and a date.
The last stretch is the plan and the measures, and participants write both. A plan a team wrote survives contact with the calendar. A plan handed to a team does not.
Who Bridge the Gap Fits
It fits a team that agrees something needs to change and disagrees about what. It fits a function heading into a new year, a new structure, or a new leader, where effort is high and direction is loose. It fits a group that has already heard the strategy and still cannot say what it means on Monday morning.
It is a poor fit when the decision is already made and the room is there to receive it. Participants drive this experience. When nothing is left to decide, there is no gap left to bridge.
What Participants Say
“Lots of fun and energy. Good learning through an interactive session.”
“This activity really brought out how we run our daily lives at work. It helped me understand what others may be feeling or have on their plate. Great facilitator!”
“Facilitator leads in a way to get us where we need to be, but isn't holding our hands.”
“Engaging concentration, stimulating discussion. Facilitator steered conversation constructively to maximize effectiveness.”
“Learn2 Solutions provide an amazing format to take our employees to a higher level of effectiveness. Bridge the Gap will be a huge help in doing this at our properties.”
What Your Team Takes Away
Identify gaps on the path to success
Align staff efforts with leadership goals
Engage employees to make collaborative decisions for change
Frequently Asked Questions
- What gap does Bridge the Gap close?
- The distance between where your organization is now and where you say you want it to be. Most teams can name the destination. Far fewer agree on where they actually stand today, or on what is blocking the road. Participants build that picture together before anyone proposes a fix.
- How does a team bridge that gap once they can see it?
- They pick the priorities that matter most and name the actions each one needs. Then they build the implementation plan and set their own measures of success. The plan belongs to the people who wrote it, which is why it survives contact with the calendar.
- Is this a team building day or real work?
- Both. It runs as a collaborative team building experience, and what participants produce is a real plan they carry back. 91.7% of participants say they would recommend it to a friend or colleague.
- How does it align a team with leadership goals?
- Participants make the decisions themselves rather than receiving them. When people define the priorities and own the transformation, day-to-day effort lines up with the goals leadership set. Nobody has to be talked into a plan they already built.
- What does the team leave with?
- A shared view of the current state, an agreed list of priorities, the actions behind each one, an implementation plan, and the measures they will hold themselves to.
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