The STORMER process

Proposition
Develops productive co-operation amongst a group of people regardless of their formal business roles, business experience and position in ‘company hierarchy’.

STORMER can develop a degree of co-operative input that is normally slow to develop or does not fully develop at all.

Activity description
An interactive facilitator-led process carried out with team members over a period of approximately 2 hours. This should be run immediately preceding a team meeting where a business agenda is to be addressed.

Primary Applications
As a tool to prepare groups who are destined to work together as a team either for:

• Specific problem solving task/s.
• Developing effectiveness for a long term working group.

Underlying issues addressed

• Hierarchy can suppress innovative input.
• Business teams struggle to think outside the normal business culture, custom and practice.
• A person’s ‘life experience’ not just ‘work experience’ can help drive innovation and team spirit but this is often difficult to ‘exploit’.

Outcomes

• Team cooperation.
• New ideas and new ways to view tasks & challenges.
• Growth in individual self-worth (particularly those with ‘junior’, formal roles).
• The opportunity to build team effectiveness without the time needed for natural development by default.
• Quality ideas are valued and developed regardless of the status or position of the originator. The idea is valued for its own merit. Unorthodox ideas are neither suppressed nor over-emphasised.

Who will benefit from this level of training or coaching:

• Those who plan to establish new teams or plan to set team tasks for groups.
• Any task- or objective-focussed group needing to co-operate