Performative team training in the world of business 08-KUDU-MA-PTT

The links between theatre and business have been confirmed throughout recent decades, among others, by the birth of many team training programs. Their creators and trainers have adapted many theatre techniques for the team training in enterprises and business companies. Prof. Juliusz Tyszka combines in his course some techniques of team training taken directly from 1) theatre academies of different countries; 2) theatre companies of the 1960s and 1970s, working with the technique of collective creation (The Living Theatre, Open Theatre and others); 3) exercises and creative activities that he invented himself and applied in Polish student theatres and his academic practical courses; with 4) techniques applied with success in the world of international business (“Management Plan Spiel” and “OUTdoor Team Training”) that he was taught in the end of 1990s in Vienna at the course launched by world renowned business team training company Harramach & Partner.
The training goes beyond operationally oriented application of different training techniques, aimed at short range, immediate “improving of team performance”. The basic goal here is long range improvement of team and personal abilities, with all respect to cultural differences and personal integrity of participants.

Module learning aims

The training develops: • Abilities to collaborate with a group and within a multicultural group. • Emotional intelligence. • Self-orientation in space. • Group orientation in space. • The ability to deeply concentrate on a given task (self-concentration and common concentration within a group). • The ability to overcome troubles and obstacles together with other members of the multicutural group. • How to use “little successes” to have bigger successes.

Information on where to find course materials

Internet.

Major

Cultural Studies, Intercultural Communication, Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

Training sessions: the participants perform collective exercices and etudes under the leadership and the care of the teacher.

Cycle of studies

2nd cycle

Module type

compulsory

Year of studies (where relevant)

Year 2

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences

Basic physical skills. REQUIREMENTS CONCERNING THE ORDER DURING THE CLASSES: 1. It is not allowed to be late or to quit the class before the end. The excuse that you have another courses at the same time will not be respected. The attendance list must be filled at the beginning of each class and at the end of it. This rule with be strictly followed. 2. Any use of mobile phones is possible only during the breaks, not in the process of performing exercises or creative actions, even if you have already finished your one. 3. It is not allowed to talk in the process of performing exercises or creative actions, even if you have already finished your one. The rules 2 and 3 will be strictly followed and if somebody breaks them three times, she or he will be excluded from the course with no right to return.

Course coordinators

Juliusz Tyszka

Learning outcomes

The training effects. It helps participants in:
1. Discovering and developping their personal potential in group activities.
2. Discovering and developping their potential in the actions where they need to execute power.
3. Discovering and developing their potential in the actions where they need to subordinate to somebody’s power.
4. Executing their power with empathy and respect to the others.
5. Generating the empathy towards theircollaborators and other people in general.
5. Eliminating the stereotypes and prejudices in multicultural groups.
6. Overcoming the stress of self-exposition in awkward, unusual situations that may be seen as unpleasant and challenging someone’s authority in the presence of his/her workmates.

Assessment criteria

In the academic year 2019/20, due to exceptional epidemic situation, the only requirement to get a grade is to write an essay, at least 1000 words long, based on literature from the list above or on any good piece of literature found in the Internet. Of course, if any of the participants has her/his own practical experience s/he is welcome to include the relation on it into the essay.

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 08-KUDU-MA-PTT in USOSweb