Challenge Program: Team-building in Japan

 

Japanese health care professionals participate in a teambuilding exercise, led by John Swerdlow and Janet Wylie, co-directors of the U-M Challenge Program. The pair traveled in November to the mountains outside of Tokyo to provide programming and training to 25 Japanese health care professionals. The participants, who came from the far corners of Japan to attend the three-day training, learned and practiced all of the basic components of activity-based teambuilding. Topics included experiential learning theory, program design and delivery, and facilitation skills and techniques. In addition, participants had an opportunity to learn a variety of experiential teambuilding activities, as well as how to utilize experiential learning to develop effective team-based health care and services. The grant-funded training, organized by Ruth Campbell and Mariko Foulk of the Geriatrics Center, grew out of a 10-year partnership between the Challenge Program and the Turner Geriatrics Center's U.S.-Japan Training Institute in Geriatric Care for health care professionals. The Challenge Program, which is housed in the Department of Recreational Sports, has provided activity-based teambuilding to University and community groups since 1990. For information on how your group can benefit from the Challenge Program's approach to teambuilding, call (734) 936-0603 or visit http://www.recsports.umich.edu/challenge/. (Photo by Janet Wylie)

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