The Botswana Country Office is on a journey to create a positive workplace environment. This includes ensuring that staff members are enabled to perform to the best of their abilities. As part of this build-up, the Country Office undertook a team work retreat in November 2022 to focus on Emotional Intelligence Training. A consultant was engaged to facilitate a one day session with clear terms of reference. The objective of the exercise was to enhance teamwork, and build an inclusive, innovative, and stress-free working environment. It is within this context and background that UNFPA Botswana seeks to engage a consultant to provide a customized 2-day team building session for the staff members. The team building session will be integrated into an Emotional Intelligence and capacity building workshop planned for 25-26 July 2023 in Francistown.
Objectives
To strengthen Emotional Intelligence with the ultimate goal of enhancing productivity at the workplace. Specifically focussing on the following critical elements of: a) Self Awareness b) Psychosocial Safety c) Self Regulation d) Motivation e) Empathy f) Social skills g) Team Work h) Trust i) Team member roles and diversity j) Harnessing individual strengths k) Cross functional working l) Bigger picture thinking m) Resilience n) Effective Communication
The team building program should be creatively designed to enable various team building activities, challenges and engagement activities to strengthen team spirit, mutual trust and collaboration among staff members.
Scope of work: The consulting organization will also be expected to provide a participatory learning session in least 5 areas:
a) There is a need to train on Self- Awareness. There is a need to support staff to recognize and understand their own emotions and to be aware of the effect of their actions, mood and emotions on colleagues.
b) The training should focus on Psychological safety to build a culture of social sensitivity, vulnerability to experiment and conversational turn taking. The training will need to address the aspects of Motivation. The training must assist staff to find motivation by internal rewards as opposed to just external rewards. This will help increase productivity.
c) The training should cover the element of Empathy. The assessment aforementioned noted low levels of empathy. There is a need to support the team to be able to understand how others are feeling and take measures to respond appropriately when colleagues are feeling bad, depressed or disheartened. In other words, the trainer should facilitate sessions to empower the team with techniques of lifting the spirits of others when necessary.
d) Facilitators should empower the team with enhanced Social Skills. Being able to interact well.
Duration and working Schedule: The consultancy will run from 24 - 31 July 2023. The total number of working days shall not exceed 2 days
Deliverables: See the attached Terms of Reference
See the Terms of Reference for more details
How to apply: Interested applicants should send applications to recruitment.bw@unfpa.org
