The Motley Crew

The lessons: Know Your Team, Know Their Strengths and Weaknesses, and Give the Right Job to the Right Person. Item#:6431    Purchase: $870   7-Day Rental: $250* Scroll Down for Product Details and Ordering Information.   ***  Includes Facilitator Materials ***   See it before you buy it with a Free Online Preview  (Scroll Down - Right Margin)

The Motley Crew

This video was produced to demonstrate the importance of teamwork. 

The lessons:

• Know Your Team
• Know Their Strengths and Weaknesses
• Give the Right Job to the Right Person.

Video Synopsis:

The motley crew features a gang of bank robbers, led by Jack 'The Hat' Motley, who learns the lessons of teamwork the hard way.  After a bungled bank-job lands Jack in jail, he tells his sorry story to his ex-boss and gangland leader Bernie from behind bars.

Jack starts with a group of professionals - each an expert in their particular field of crime. But he failed to allow them to introduce themselves, spoke in a language half the team did not understand, and neglected to give people clearly defined tasks that matched their abilities.

By trial and error, the team gradually learned some of the basic skills of good teamwork - such as creating a common purpose, learning from experience, speaking a common language, working in stages, ensuring everyone knows what is expected of them, and supporting team contributions, while not allowing anyone to dominate the proceedings.

But as Bernie points out, they did not learn enough. Bernie, on the other hand, has learned all these lessons so well that he is looking forward to a comfortable retirement . . .with more than a little help from the bank.

Key messages

• Have a common goal
• Learn from experience
• Speak a common language
• Work in stages
• Support and develop
• Listen and contribute

The benefits

• Ideal for any teambuilding programme.
• Helps everyone to understand the value of a focused team.

** Bonus DVD:  WORKING TOGETHER

When you purchase this DVD, you get a meeting opener DVD that introduces the importance of formulating a success strategy for a team. In the meeting opener, two characters plan the redecoration of a house. Both think they're a team, both think they know what each other is doing and both think they have planned to perfection.  Although they think they have the theory right, the reality is not quite what one had in mind.