Quels exercices de visualisation peuvent améliorer les performances de l’équipe ?

Top athletes use visualization to prepare for the "big game". Visualization helps to prepare your brain in addition to your body. By visualizing the environment and mentally walking through step by step your mind can be more prepared. Visualization is so important that Olympic Teams have full time psychologists that work with them year round and travel to the games with them. These psychologists lead visualization sessions to help athletes prepare. To be a top player in your field/organization visualization can help you in the same ways.

People can only be what they see. If they see it as a team, they can create it as a team! Visualization is imperative for group development.

I always found that visualization is not for everyone - you need to use different modalities - reading, writing, dialogue, drawing, listening etc. So i would expand the exercise where team members can use different methods to visualize.

Visualisation is the process of creating a dream, seeing it unfold and then stimulating the self to come up with ideas to realise the dream. When we visualise, we can see our own individual contributions, other team members' contributions and start to map out a roadmap to make the dream come true. Why visualise? Visualise to create, prepare, align and then take concrete action.

Visualization is the process of creating mental images or representations of something that is not present or visible. It can be beneficial to teams as it can help to clarify their goals and vision, generate new ideas and solutions, explore different scenarios and perspectives, align expectations and actions, and communicate messages and feedback effectively. Moreover, visualization can stimulate the brain's regions responsible for memory, emotion, and motivation, boosting the team's confidence, enthusiasm, and commitment.

What seems overly simple has been proven effective in multiple research studies. Step 1 - visualise the goal you have in mind in as much detail as possible. Step 2 - List the first 3 steps of achieving that goal. Step 3 identify all the things that might possibly get in the way of you achieving that goal. Step 4 - ID the 3 most likely things that will hinder you and create a plan for overcoming each.

What is often discounted or ignored in team exercises is the individuals that make up the team. When creating team visualizations for team goals I always have people start with themselves, infusing their hearts and minds with how their success and goals will impact thier own lives. After that creating a connection to what part they may play in creating the team success and how that will impact themselves, their team, their families and colleagues, and even potentially the world. Once these impacts are embodied it opens the door to more creative innovation and buy in for the nuts and bolts of incremental goal setting. Doing this regularly can create much stronger commitment to the desired outcomes.

My favourite prompts for teams are: - How are we? - How can we be great together? - What could be better? - What am I going to do about it? - What are we going to do about it? - How can we best support each other? Divide your team in groups of 4 or 6 (even numbers is best, have them break out into pairs to answer each question) then come back to debrief and move on to the next question in different pairs.

In the practice of futures thinking, the visualisation of possible futures can be facilitated with various imaginative learning tools such as the use of Dixit cards or certain liberating structures, the use of drama and improvisation, drawing, the creation of artefacts with bricks or other materials, and also by exploiting Generative AI.

Indivis(/d)ualization: What role do you, the individual, play in the scenario? Map it out. One helpful visualization tool is the Daisy Model. You put your name and role in the center of the daisy and each petal is an attribute to that role. For example: Center: Role Petal 1: What made you interested in playing this role? Petal 2: What is your experience of the role? Petal 3: What is your relationship with other stakeholders in the scenario? Petal 4: Outline personal and relevant context for the role. Petal 5: What does it mean to perform this role? Petal 6: What is the goal/outcome?

In Futures Studies methods and Futures Thinking practice, visualisation is extremely important because it allows one to 'feel' and see possible futures that do not exist but can be co-created.

A team needs to connect regularly and brainstorm & problem solve regularly. The set of questions I mentioned above can be done once a month at the same time on the same day to create a habit of asking each other the most important questions. It contributes to keeping the mission and common goal in mind and continuously improving on what does not work and what could be improved.

I like to keep it super simple. Make it an opportunity to connect on a deeper level. Facilitate an experience where each team member pairs with different people, asking and answering the same key questions. When one answers, others listen without interruption. What is key is to learn to really listen to each other and hear each other out, without jumping ahead, without making assumptions but always checking if they are correct, and establishing a standard of communication that is the key to strong and high performing teams.

Some important considerations are that some individuals need time to think by themselves before engaging in a group. To account for various personalities and styles, I clarify the goal and give people time to gather their thoughts in their own way before group discussions. This way, more people are in a place to contribute, participate, and offer feedback.

Repeat the same exercise monthly and take notes on what worked well and what could be improved. Ask for feedback and build your own ideal visualisation exercise using these questions. Start the visualisation exercise with the Icebreaker where people are broken out into pairs and given 90 seconds each to answer: "How are you now really?. End the experience with a round of appreciation or a check out with these two elements: "Right now, I am feeling... and what I appreciate about today is..."

Eine professionelle Herangehensweise, um sich kontinuierlich zu verbessern, ist es in Eigenreflexion zu gehen. Am besten immer nach der Arbeit mit dem Team. Exemplarische Reflexionsfragen könnten sein: 📌Was ist gut gelaufen - was weniger gut? 📌Waren meine Darstellungen für alle verständlich? 📌Wie war mein Umgang mit den unterschiedlichen Medien/Tools/...? 📌Wie war der Energielevel der Teilnehmer? 📌Wie war mein Energielevel? 📌Wie war meine Zeiteinteilung? Sich kritisch aber konstruktiv damit auseinander zu setzen wird Ihnen helfen besser und sicherer zu werden.

It is important to devote time to the so-called 'restitution', the phase in which the different groups tell each other their experiences and explain the elements of their visualisations, not only so that everyone understands their own point of view but also to be open to those of others.