Tired of the same dry and boring teacher in-services that only cover the nuts & bolts of teaching? 
Optimal Performance Associates is dedicated to customizing innovative Teacher Team Building workshops, seminars, and retreats that will meet your specific objectives and goals. Our mission is to provide your school with a hands-on learning experience that will promote the enhancement of relationships and the building of tangible skills. For over 18 years Optimal Performance Associates has been providing schools with fun, powerful, and dynamic team building workshops that are designed to improve teamwork and performance. We have developed a broad range of high energy and interactive programs that build camaraderie, spark positive energy, create insight, and build tangible skills.
Innovative Team-building Workshops for Teachers and School Staff
Building a high performing educational team requires a tremendous amount of motivation, commitment, confidence, concentration, and teamwork skills to achieve at the highest levels. You can choose an in-depth workshop that explores a specific topic or work on group fun, camaraderie, and rejuvenation through our innovative team initiatives and activities. Our customized team building and performance enhancement workshops will help your school:
- Build a long lasting commitment towards your team mission
- Increase mutual support and strengthen group cohesion
- Strengthen relationships between staff members
- Develop the abilities that contribute to positive leadership
- Enhance team communication and problem solving skills
- Deepen trust in self and others
- Develop an appreciation of everyone’s role
- Ability to overcome conflict in a constructive manner
Customized Team Building
Our team building workshop for teachers are not your ordinary programs just to make your group feel group for a few days. OPA’s customized team building programs are specifically designed for schools that focus on building higher levels of team performance. Our Team Development programs accomplish this through highly dynamic and experiential activities. Each session is designed to capitalize on the advantages of teams and teamwork. Because no two teams are ever alike, we customize our Team Building Programs to meet the dynamics and culture of your school or department. Prior to the program, OPA will conduct an initial needs assessment through telephone interview or meeting directly with 2-3 key members of the team. In addition OPA can provide each member with needs assessment to each member of the team. The information received will serve as a foundation for the design and execution of the team building experience. This information helps us better understand team dynamics, team make-up, and what areas of improvement need to be addressed.
Why Customize Your Team Building Program
Our customized team building programs utilize team initiatives which are high energy team building activities that get everybody up and moving, indoors or outdoors. These team building activities are physical challenges appropriate for educational professionals and they are an excellent way to accelerate team performance. Our Team Initiatives are results oriented, Build Trust, Promote Problem Solving, Leadership, Accountability, Support, Team Communication, Team Commitment, & Integrity.
Our team building session for faculty/staff will:
- Help participants get to know one another quickly and differently than they might in the work place, which in turn will provide individuals a greater degree of comfort back at school.
- Establish a sense of team camaraderie and a greater awareness of the importance of teamwork.
- Create an atmosphere of mutual support in which cooperation, encouragement and interpersonal concerns are emphasized.
- Help participants to assess critical factors in team tasks and explore how teams can effectively capitalize on group resources.
- Help participants further develop clear and effective communication skills.
- Develop an appreciation of everyone’s role
Customizing our Team Building workshops is what we do best. Whether your program is a half-day, full day, or a multi day program each program is custom designed for the key issues and the group dynamics of each group. The result: enhanced interpersonal relationships; accelerated results; and positive change. Our Team Development Programs can take place in a hotel; conference center, a local park, gymnasium, your facility, or at the OPA Retreat Center.
