This document discusses strategies for leading reluctant team members in NAF academies. It recognizes that highly effective cross-disciplinary teams are critical for student success but some teachers may be reluctant to fully engage in teamwork. The document suggests understanding each teacher's motivations and addressing their specific concerns to increase involvement. True teaming requires sharing beliefs and outcomes, reflective discussions, and a collective focus on student learning.

1. Leading Reluctant Team
Members
Kathleen Harris

2. Desired Outcomes
Participants:
• Recognize the advantage of functioning in highly effective cross disciplinary
teams in NAF academies
• Explain how teams functioning as communities of practice can enhance the
students’ experience and increase student achievement
• Demonstrate empathy for the concerns of teachers reluctant to engage in
true teaming
• Devise strategies for addressing reluctant teachers’ concerns and provide
meaningful incentives to increase their involvement

3. Teaming in NAF Academies
1. How critical are highly effective cross-
disciplinary teams to the quality of a NAF
Academy?
2. How do student benefit from highly
functional academies teams?
3. How do teachers benefit?

4. Characteristics of a
Community of Practice
• Shared norms, beliefs, vision and outcomes
• Reflective discussions that allow individuals to talk about
their challenges and their victories
• Collective focus on student learning
• New approaches to staff development that lead to
common language, shared understandings about teaching
and learning and calibration of student work

5. “Real change begins with the simple act of people
talking about what they care about.”
Margaret J. Wheatley

6. “Vision is the single most empowering
and motivating factor in human
organizations. It can bond diverse
people together.”
Warren Bennis

8. “It is not a shared vision until it
connects with the personal visions of
people throughout the organization”
Peter Senge

9. Team Members May Need to Know…
Why should I participate?
What is expected of me?
What is the reward?
Where are we headed?
How am I/we doing?
How can I improve?

10. Motivation Preference Survey
Please complete the motivation survey by
putting a check next to those statement that
describe you in most situations,
not just sometimes.
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11. Motivation Preferences-It’s all about…
People and
Relationships
Things and
Function
Creativity
and
Expression
Discovery
and
Processes
What
What if…
Why
Who How

12. Motivation and Buy-in
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Why should I care…
I’ll do it if I can…..
I might be persuaded if……
Is my time well spent….
Are we better together….

13. “Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
John C. Maxwell

14. “Blessed are the flexible
For they shall not get bent
out of shape!”