This document outlines an effective team bonding activity with the objectives of improving cultural understanding between the Malaysia and China teams, understanding personalities, and upgrading communication skills. The activity includes sharing achievements and expectations, a personality test, cultural profiles, communication styles training, appreciation notes, and identifying individual and departmental strengths. Key learning points are cultural awareness, communication styles, listening skills, and knowing team members. Approaches include appreciative inquiry, presentations, and personality assessments.

1. Effective Team Bonding
Collaboration. Communication and Bonding

2. Objectives
• Improving cultural acumen of Malaysia and China team
• Understand the personality of team and team
members
• Upgrading communication capabilities to put the
message across effectively
• Improving team bonding activities for better teamwork
• Developing department to next level by using strengths
of team members

3. Outline (1)
• Message from your Captain ( Achievement, Hope)
• Knowing Each Other
• Know Your Team Members
• Personality Test – Your Own, Team, Malaysia/China, Staff
• Expectation Game
• Appreciation Notes
• Team Cheers – Demonstrate Corporate Values
• Individual Strengths and Positive Traits
• How others look at your strengths
• Discover your own strengths
• Be an Artist – Know their best behaviors
• Visual Achievements
• Departmental Strengths and Achievements

4. Outline (2)
• Intercultural communication
• Cultural Acumen
• Communication Style – Kinetic, Visual and Audio
• Power Point Made Simple – 1 Idea, Data, Simple
language, Examples
• Communication – Purpose, Background, Explain,
Clarification, Next Step
• Listening Games
• Sharing on virtual team bonding and communication
• Sharing: New Better Useful

5. Key Learning Points
• Cultural Awareness
• Communication Style
• Profile of Team Members
• Listening
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6. Tools and Approaches
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Power Point
• Listening
• Personality Plus
• Cultural Profile of US and China
• VAK Communication Styles
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7. Sharing by Leader
• Hopes
• Achievements
• Expectations

8. Know Your Team

9. Achievements

10. Appreciation Notes

11. Peter Drucker…an interview we did with
him on his book “The Next Society”
“The task of leadership is to create
an alignment of strengths,
making our weaknesses
irrelevant”.

12. Department Strengths and Achievements

13. Career
Portfolio
Laurence Yap
Training and Development
Talent Management
Organization Development
Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Shanghai,
Singapore, San Jose, Omaha,
Tempe, Perrysburg
18 Years of Professional Experience

14. Training: Malaysia, China
and Singapore