Description
An astonishing venture with Leonardo da Vinci, the polymath of the European Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
Which strengths and abilities made him the "Universal Genius”? What was his leadership style and his relationship with his team? What secrets allowed him to transform apparent failures into marvellous visions of a future world?
Goals
- Promote the team's social cohesion by creating a feeling of collaboration, mutual trust and support.
- Foster intrinsic motivation by developing a sense of autonomy, competence and relatedness.
- Support goal-oriented behaviour.
- Exploit one's strengths in the face of challenges and difficulties.
- Learn from mistakes by redefining the concept of failure.
- Back leadership skills and behaviours.
The structure of the Team Building
The Team-Building event typically lasts one day and is structured with activities that wisely blend fun, culture, and organisational psychology to brush up on collaboration, leadership, flexibility, and problem-solving.
WORKSHOPS
The group will be split into teams of 4-8 members. Teams will engage in two artistic workshops: an exciting "challenge" to recreate some of Leonardo's masterpieces. Each workshop is an invaluable source of learning and development for all team members since it represents a metaphor for a particular organisational context or process.
In the art workshop (2 hours), the teams will compete to reproduce, using powdered colours, the hues of a famous Leonardo's masterpiece.
The activity metaphorically represents a value-chain organisational process, from planning objectives to evaluating results. The coaches will observe how the team organises itself to deliver the best performance and the strategic choices made during the realisation phase.
In the engineering workshop (2 hours), the teams will be asked to reproduce, using real-size materials, the layout of Leonardo's invention.
The activity represents a metaphor for the organisational processes of emerging leadership, brainstorming, strategic planning and coordination in the absence of communication. The coaches will observe the participants' leadership styles, creativity, and approach to cooperation.
FEEDBACK
Licensed coaches supervise the teams, observe team dynamics, and provide individualised and group feedback. These insights have been proven to be one of the most precious opportunities for rapid personal and professional growth.
Three different levels of feedback will be provided.
- Intra-team progress feedback to the participants aimed to improve their collaborative strategies with communication, problem-solving, leadership and creative abilities.
- Inter-team progress feedback is intended to compare the team's strategies and tactics, revealing the metaphorical meanings of the two workshops and their connection with the actual organisational practices.
- Post-hoc (follow-up) feedback to the client on the main characteristics of the group, including learning and development opportunities, regarding the training objectives.
CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
Team building is developed in a context that fires up curiosity and eagerness to explore. References to life and the works of the universal genius are not an end but an opportunity to transfer knowledge, skills, and abilities. Participants take away the perception to have invested their time toward personal and professional fulfilment, far beyond simple fun and entertainment.