TEAM BUILDING

Elixir specialises in what it calls developmental team buildings! Experiences that not only ceate an opportunity for staff members to socialise outside of the office but experieces that create very powerful leanrings that fundamentally shift peoples attitudes towards the principels of collaboration and the values of the organisation.

Elixir has 3 signature team building experiences.

Elixir Experience - The natural path to groth and transformation!

Journey to the Cradle of Mankind- Embracing collaborative Innovation and Learning

Spirit of Ubuntu Ochestra- Embracing Culture & Diversity

Treeam Building-Planting Seeds of Collaboration

 

THE ELIXIR EXPERIENCE

Elixir will take your team on a journey to rediscover their personal, team and business purpose in the wilderness. Key team effectiveness challenges relating to your company will be brought to life through the context of Nature. The interactive and experiential learning methodology ensures that your team has a fun, enriching and social experience while internalising the key values and principles needed to take your company forward. The experience is hosted in untouched and truly remarkable wilderness areas that leave each participant with a sense of awe and connection to their team, themselves and their creator. The process is designed to support specific budget and time requirements and can include guided walks, facilitated discussions, personal coaching, field work and group exercises.  

Key Experience Benefits of Nature Based Facilitation

• The grounding environment allows team members of all levels to bond with each other and share common experience relating to their personal and professional journeys. This facilitates team building and a mutual understanding.

• Ecosystems are powerful metaphors for organisations and they promote the awareness and appreciation of diverse value systems, working styles and personalities. The facilitators include a values and non violent communication exercise that supports people in expressing their own value systems while learning to navigate others.

• Nature has been proven to be a powerful vehicle in getting people into a peak state of awareness, intuition and resourcefulness. Your team will have key insights into limiting beliefs that have been impacting their personal development and the dynamics of their team.

• The wilderness provides a perfect space for people to relax, de-stress and to process any emotions related to their role and development in your organisation.

• Internalisation of key life and business principles that nature has refined over 3.8 billion years of evolution. Participants will relate the principles to their role at your company. Including:

o   Contribution-To life, to your business, to family and community

o   Synergy- looking for collaborative ways to solve challenges and explore ideas.

o   Effectiveness – exploring the optimal use of time, energy, resources and strengths.

o   Purpose/Identity- recognising that each individual has a role to play.

o   Resilience- to challenges, obstacles and growth opportunities faced at work and in life.

o   Acceptance-of other people, situations and circumstance. Acceptance is the gateway to the solution.

o   Adaptation-changing perception and procedure to meet needs more effectively.

• Greater awareness around how personal fulfilment comes from the ability to meet a highly evolved set of emotional needs in a balanced way. This awareness promotes holistic living which improves organisational productivity and culture.

• Opportunity to create an inspiring vision that drives revenue growth, engagement and collaboration.

 

 

JOURNEY TO THE CRADLE OFMANKIND EXPERIENCE

  

Evolutionary Biology tells us that Sub Saharan Africa was once the pinnacle of human evolution and the birth place of fire, technology and culture. Tracing the expansion of humans form the Cradle of Min kind, it becomes clear that humans owe their success to their ability to learn, express, innovate, and collaborate with their fellow man. Many organisations however have lost touch with these core flagstones of human development! To re-engage with these universal principles, we need to take people on a journey back to the dawn of time so that they can marvel at their place in the planets history and reconnect with its wisdom. This experience is designed to engage people in the importance of learning, innovation and collaboration. The process involves each participant completing the Maropeng tour and exhibition and then the group follows through with engaging in various team creativity process that provide new skills, paradigms and attitudes.

Key Experience Benefits of the Experience

• The Maropeng Tour is a life changing experience that every proud South Africa company should send their staff on.

• Expert facilitation brings both personal and group meaning and relevance to the tour. As a result, the tour acts as a catalyst to engage the team in real opportunities and challenges related to organisational strategy, innovation and collaboration.

• The journey provides valuable perspectives from ecology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, systems theory, social networking and history to provide not only an understanding of the development of effective business principles but an appreciation of how on a genetic level, our personal fulfilment is impacted by our ability to guide our life and business dealings by them.

• The process engages staff in cutting edge creative problem solving methodologies which demonstrate the value of collaboration but which also capitalise on the creative potential of your whole team.

• It combines a great mixture of fun, practical application, food for thought and team interaction.

 

THE SPIRIT OF UBUNTU EXPERIENCE 

The spirit of Ubuntu is a once in a life time catalyst in engaging your staff in the true value of diversity, collaboration and engagement. This experience is a catalyst in fundamentally shifting the attitude of employees towards the values of Ubuntu while engaging staff in practices that can be practically applied in developing an integrated and synergistic culture. The experience involves engaging participants in the underpinnings of the Ubuntu philosophy with perspectives from leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. This is followed up with practical group exercises and interactions that allow people to practice the principles while building towards the creation of the Spirit of Ubuntu Orchestra. For people to consistently demonstrate Ubuntu in their workplace, they need to be 100% convinced that it will support them personally and in the organisation. To do this, we take your whole organisation, many of whom would have had no musical experience, and we use the principles of Ubuntu to create an orchestra that makes such inspiring music, that it leaves people enthused to live and work by the spirit of Ubuntu

Key Experience Benefits of the Experience

• Being part of the orchestra gives each person a renewed sense of purpose and perspective while connecting them to the whole company. Each person recognises that each different instrument has an important part to play-even if you get the triangle!

• Orchestras are powerful metaphors for organisations and they promote the awareness and appreciation of diverse value systems, working styles and personalities. The participants recognise that the quality of the music and the performance is enhanced through all the varied sounds coming together in unity.

• Music has been proven to be a powerful vehicle in getting people into a peak state of creativity, inspiration and resourcefulness. They will hear and feel new symbols of their capability as individuals and as a group. It is also a great vehicle to de-stress and revitalise so that people feel renewed by the experience.

• Internalisation of key life and business principles that the Ubuntu philosophy is built on. These include:
  • Understanding
  • Compassion
  • Diversity
  • Collaboration
  • Respect

• An opportunity to create an Ubuntu orchestra which acts as the catalyst for launching your organisation into a new culture that embraces cultural diversity and its commitment to community development. The powerful performance creates music that inspires and a filmed show piece can be used to engage employees for years to come.

• The methodology is non competitive, inclusive and accessible to all participants.

 

TREEAM BUILDING                                                                                        

The tree is a symbol of growth and transformation. Just like the tiny acorn grows into the majestic tree, so too are ideas the catalyst in people’s development. Planting inspiring ideas into the youth of South Africa is the key to nurturing the future of South African society. Elixir and Greenpop collaborate to facilitate learning enriched and interactive tree planitng days. Nothing can be more enriching than a group of epmployees coming together to plant tree's and seeds of wisdom in the youth of South Africa.

Key Facilitation Objectives & Benefits

• The organisation can enrich it's CSI program by planting an unlimited amount of tree's in some of the most empoversihed schools in South Africa.

• The outdoors provides a perfect space for people to relax, de-stress and to connect with people in new environments.    

• Create a quality space for employees to collaborate while also interacting and learning with the youth at the school. The groups will learn valuable facilitation, communication and problem solving skills which support effective teamwork and personal leadership.

• The group will use the "Native American Talking Stick" to engage in groups about challenges, opportunities and wishes that have been impacting both the company, the school and the community.This powerful community building excercise optimises organisational development

• The tree is a powerful metaphor for growth and it will be used as the basis for discussion around personal development. Each member of a group will be invited to share insight that tree’s provide and which can be related to thewir role within thier team.

• The group will use the CPSI Creative Problem solving model to create tomorrow’s solutions for their specific organisation. These solutions will be based on the wisdom of tree’s and various growth principles in nature. The same wisdom will then be applied to creating solutions for the school and the surrounding community. Each participant will internalise the key principle required to be effective in their role. These solutions will be visualised on vision baords that will be placed at the foot of the value tree.

• The whole organisation will create a giant root structure using rope that is circled around the companies value Tree. This root system will act as a powerful symbol of the team building process. This image can be used in PR and various other internal communication strategie