Ask Michelle & Chris About Team Building

Find out how, The Path to Action, Perception-Action-Will and the Trust premiss of Character and Competence can help you with your team building work. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign Up for Michel...

Action Reflection and Object Lessons are the final techniques in this five-part series. Michelle and Chris share favorites and discuss why when and why they use them. We hope this series of processing techniques has given you new inspiration or revived an old tool you plan to revisit.  We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all t...

Michelle and Chris share another pair of processing and debriefing tools - Artistic Methods and Self Reflection. This five-part series (one more to go) is designed to show you how many ways you can approach the important task of discussing the valuable lessons of team building activities and programs. When you use different approaches you and your participants stay curious and engage more in the p...

Michelle and Chris talk about the next two processing techniques - Intervention and Anchor Pieces. Interventions are ways to focus on correcting disruptive group behaviors and Anchors are tangible items participants can take home with them as a (learnings) reminder from a program. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the re...

Michelle and Chris continue their current series on processing and debriefing with the Metaphoric Methods and Frontloading. Find out some of their favorite tools and activities for both techniques and two different ways to Frontload. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team build...

Michelle and Chris dive into the first of a five-part series on Processing & Debriefing tools. Be sure to grab Michelles handout on all the tools we'll be sharing in the series. Then, be sure to catch all the episodes for the finer points on all the tools. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HER...

Michelle and Chris share some activity ideas used to open up discussions involving mental health - activities to use with groups and personally to support your own mental health as well. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cummings - T...

Michelle and Chris discuss their experiences with summer camp staff training and share some of their go to activities to start building a cohesive staff community. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign...

Michelle and Chris share some new ideas for these two seminal team building activities. Find out how to use Group Juggle and TP Shuffle with larger groups and how to provide more action during the Shuffle. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Mi...

Michelle and Chris talk about the idea of choice in the field of adventure education/team building - who's making these choices, the complexities choices offer and how we consider presenting choice.    We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE M...

Michelle and Chris share some of their favorite activities using 8.5 by 11 inch paper (i.e., copy paper). This recyclable prop is easy to find wherever you go and provides so many opportunities. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cumm...

Michelle and Chris explore a recent question they received: " I'm always looking for new activities that will interest my skills trade students. " In general, team builders want to capture the interest of their groups. It might not be a question of "what activity" but how an activity is presented. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuildi...

Michelle & Chris discuss some of the newer activities they've been using (and excited about) since leading and experiencing them at the last ACCT Conference.  Find out about, Floor Safe (a Key Punch Variation) as well as, Macro Tenzi and Dude, found in the Team Building from the Toy Aisle book. Chris says, "It's one thing to read about a new activity, and another to play it! Tha...

Michelle & Chris  share their experience phrasing activities with groups. Certain words we consider harmless can turn out to be just the opposite. Learn a bit about how to avoid unwanted distractions and cut down on the amount of questions you have to answer before getting an activity rolling. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Note...

Michelle and Chris share four no-prop activities. Three have a solid track record of success and one is super-new, but is looking like a winner. All are great for larger groups and work while safely distancing. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HE...

Michelle & Chris are up and running with the first episode of Season 3. The New Year gives us a chance to recommit to ourselves and our work. How do we plan to recommit? What will be your "word of the year" (or, word of the Month)? In what ways will you be able to "keep the fire burning?" Our work can be very challenging. How will we stay in the game  and show up as the bes...

Join Michelle and Chris as they look back over the highlights of the second season and share a little bit about what's ahead for the 'Ask' podcast. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or team building related question HERE Michelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.com Sign...

WOW. Episode #50! Thank you so much for sharing the adventure with us. As long as you're listening, we'll keep going. For the 50th, Michelle and Chris explore the idea of 'Wisdom'...it's like wine... (how so? head over to 50 and find out!). They share their first wisdom-filled books, mentors and resources they still tap into - wisdom is everywhere. However, wisdom is like...

Join Michelle and Chris on a little 'crazy' rant (not too ranty) about individual and group behaviors that can push our buttons (and maybe yours too?). Since we've been seeing these behaviors for a while now, we also share some of our methods for moving past the crazy and onto the good stuff. We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the...

Join Michelle & Chris as they meander through a discussion about when to support a group, even if you notice that not everything is going well, and when to challenge a group - push back on the group when they are missing some learnings. Some possible answers float to the surface, some things are still open for discussion. Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the S...

Michelle and Chris share their newest ways to work with the Islands challenge course low element and the all-time favorite Stepping Stones. Find out how to get from point 'A' to point 'B' with more engagement and problem-solving opportunities. Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find the Show Notes with all the resource links HERE Submit a comment or t...

After a number of recent requests, Michelle and Chris share some of their ideas about how to start and take the journey into full time work in the adventure education field. The bottom line is all about experience - get yourself into companies and programs near you to build your skill sets. Grow your Adventure portfolio and save your program plans. Keep track of 'failures' (actually a gr...

We are, first and foremost, celebrating the release of Michelle's new book, Team Building from the Toy Aisle (co-written with Matthew Broda and Trevor Dunlap). Then we share a couple of the gems in the book and talk about the mindset of changing a 'game' into a team building 'activity.' We hope you join us. Emails: michelle@training-wheels.com chris@onteambuilding.com Find...

Michelle and Chris share their thoughts about using consequences during activities. There are times when 'fun' consequences liven up the group (Opera Singer), and other times when more natural consequences focus in on the learning (a lower grade). It all relates to the purpose of the program. Join in and find out about the new 'Consequences Thumb Ball!' Emails: michelle@trainin...

Michelle and Chris share new ways to lead some old classics in this new mini-series called Reinvigorating Classics. In this first volume Chris shares a goal-setting and achievement process using the Spider Web called, Count Me In and Michelle explains a new way to Key Punch using the alphabet called The Pangram Project . (Do you know want a pangram is?) We hope you join us! Emails: michelle@traini...