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How many times have you been to an art gallery, looked at a famous work of art, and thought, “I could do that”? However, can you imagine all the delegates working to one common goal and creating a masterpiece together or alternatively an art gallery of a number of works of art? Well here is your opportunity.
You will have to work well as a team, co-ordinating your efforts as you work on these giant canvasses to recreate the master works.
Artistic skills or mathematical precision – exactly how did those masters get their effects? You can, and will, find out!
We will separate a giant canvas into several sections. One team of delegates will be allocated to each section of canvas. Some teams have ‘shape information’, others have ‘colour information’, and some have no information at all! If they take a ‘big picture’ approach, they will soon realise that if their work is to be worth anything, they need to co-operate rather than compete. It’s about sharing and communicating, making sure that each section fits perfectly with those that adjoin it. The final result will prove to be a remarkable piece of art. The delegates will create something to be proud of and they will have all played an essential role in its creation. The standard in the past has proved to be good enough to hang in the office as testimony to the harmony in which the teams worked. It will be immense both with regard to size and impact.
The event will take up to two hours. The delegates are given time to change and freshen up and when they return there will be a grand unveiling of their creation. There will be cheers, applause and self-congratulations as they realise the scale of their success and how great things can happen when people work together well.
Each canvas will be pleasing to the eye in its own right. The company may wish to hang an individual canvas up in every office to act as a reminder of how well things work when they pull together. Or the Big Picture in its entirety could be hung up for all to see. So pick-up a brush and get everyone focused on The Big Picture….
Potential Key Learning Points / Outcomes from a Big Picture
Bigger Picture Thinking and Common Goals
In addition to their micro team responsibilities, all teams have a critical overall common challenge. Issues of Big Picture versus Micro thinking will come into play as teams need to address not only their own project, but also those of other teams to ensure overall success. It’s all very well to make our teams bit a “work of art”, but only by dovetailing our efforts carefully into the overall strategy will we create a true “Masterpiece”.
Cross-Functional Working
Groups simply must engage in quality cross-functional sharing of ideas and equipment to enable them to complete the project with greater speed, profitability or effectiveness.
Team Roles and Diversity
The Big Picture mirrors the dynamics of a team at work with many different team roles essential for a balanced and effective approach to the challenge. Team members will find it essential that different team role styles come forward at the right times to deal with different aspects of the challenge.
Fun and Motivation
The Big Picture is a high energy and high fun challenge. Teams have a great deal of fun, and motivate one another a great deal towards completion within the timeframe permitted.
Communication
Internal and external communication will be essential as teams need to interpret and then effectively communicate information that is critical to making sure the diverse elements of the project come together in the right way for the desired end result. Failure to communicate effectively will result in confusion and bad execution. The end result only comes together properly when teams have shared information and resources effectively.
Customer Focus
If we all share information and co-ordinate our efforts across the total group, the customer does not just see lots of little artworks, they will see a spectacular and conjoined masterpiece with commonality of colour, texture and image.
With the right systems and commitment anything can be done.
Initially teams find it hard to believe they will actually be able to paint anything as a group. When committed to making it work, and by utilising the right systems and approaches what seems impossible becomes not only possible, but very, very impressive indeed!
A lasting reminder of the event
If taken back to the workplace and displayed, the painting is a daily reminder and anchor for the key messages and issues addressed during the challenge.
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