Our Team Sings is a fun and highly energized interactive workshop that takes the team out of their comfort zones and has them thinking outside the box.  It engages the four intelligences – physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional.  They will learn to sing and orchestrate together, then perform their song to families or other colleagues at the end of the day.

The metaphor is that the musical systems that create a wonderful choir and orchestra such as voices, rhythms, senses, collaboration, communication, leadership, relationships are the same as building blocks of a strong team that works harmoniously together and simply hums along.  The team participants will improvise and experience, through a series of exercises, to perform together by creating their own choir and orchestra.  All of this fun and exploration will be directly related back to the workplace and how they can consciously live skills such as deep listening, communication, senses, co-creating, leadership in a more cohesive and efficient manner.

Content

• Focus will be on developing awareness of the senses through singing, drumming, a variety of instruments and other exercises – i.e. sense of sound, sight, intuition, listening, feeling
• Learn the difference between melody and harmony, different musical time signatures and how they can apply this to best perform together in the workplace

• Learn the structure of a choir such as the roles, voices and leadership and directly relate this back to their workplace
• Become aware of different methods of communication through singing, movement and working together – e.g. what happens when one voice is higher or louder than the other; or if one person is competing against another voice; or the shape and sound of the voice has implications on the message and more
• People will have a chance at leading or being the conductor and also changing roles and positions in the choir to find the shape of the choir – how can this relate to your team in the workplace
• Understand the principles of what goes into developing a performance – and the motto, we are all performers in this universe
• Develop action items to manifest in their day to day work

 Methodology

• Anyone in the workshop who plays an instrument will be asked to bring them
• Throughout the process of the day the team members will be asked to relate what they are learning directly to their workplace and team
• The facilitator/musician/singer will choose a few songs to sing and will present them to the team to select one of them
• Exercises to develop and open up the senses will be performed
• Team will learn the different voices/roles of a choir and orchestra
• Team will personally explore through improvisation of singing and playing instruments to begin to find their own voice first to become aware of the other voices (team members) in the system, then they will learn the performance song
• They will also be placed in different physical positions in the choir to sense what it is like to perform next to someone who might be out of sync with what they are doing – hence the importance of putting workers together in environments where they feed off the energy of others and work in harmony with each other
• Before the performance, the team will be asked to create action points on how they can apply this learning to their workplace and commit to it
• After the performance they will celebrate their success (part of the workplace to celebrate success and hard work)

 Deliverables

• An action list applying the learning to their own working environments and teams
• Performing, singing and orchestrating together
• How to work more effectively through communication skills, sense awareness and open leadership
• Personally find their own rhythms, voice, tempo, and temperment, i.e. their strengths before bringing them together as a team
• Having fun and being high-spirited/energized makes work more pleasurable
• Thinking outside the box and getting out of their comfort zones
• Encourage creativity and innovation
• Releases stress

Location

• Large space to move around in and find places to explore their instruments
• A room with large windows and good natural light
• A sound proof room as it will get noisy during this exploration

Duration

1 day + follow up of coaching on communication and performance