1. Becoming a Team:
Achieving a Goal
Introducing Teamwork
BEFORE STARTING
PRESENTATION, CONDUCT 1ST
ICEBREAKER – POST-IT NOTES
EXERCISE
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2.  A Team is a cooperative unit that work
together and are a group of people or
animals linked in a common purpose.
 Teams are especially appropriate for
conducting tasks that are high in
complexity and have many
interdependent subtasks.
What is a TEAM?

3.  A team is a total social organization that is
capable of acting as a singular entity in pursuing
a goal
 A team performs in an environment, interacts
with its environment, and must periodically
adjust to its environment
 A team is compromised of interrelated parts
referred to as “subsystems” that are the means
by which it moves toward its goal
Teams as Systems

4.  Athletic Team
 Musical Ensemble
 Surgical/Medical Team
 Human Resource Team
 Software Development Team
 Manufacturing Team
 Corporate Team
Types of Teams

5.  Teamwork "a joint action by 3 people or more or a group
of people, in which each person provides his or her
individual interests and opinions about the subject to help
with the unity and efficiency of the group.“
 Effective and efficient teamwork goes beyond individual
accomplishments
 The most effective teamwork is produced when all the
individuals involved work towards a common goal
 In order for teamwork to succeed one must be a team
player
 Team Player
 Common Goal
What is Teamwork?

6.  Environment might be too difficult
 Goal might be poorly defined
 Communication
 Lack skill or knowledge
 May not follow the path to their goal
 Poor quality
Team Failure…

7.  Consists of Interacting Individuals
◦ Communication
◦ Mutual Goal
◦ Perception of Membership
◦ Interdependence
◦ Mutual Influence
 Common Fate
◦ Structured Relationships
20 Minute Break
Teamwork

8. 5 Development Stages
of Team Building

9. Member Quotes Supporting Outcomes
Behavior Actions
Forming •Polite •Why am I •Provide •Become
•Cautious here? informal acquainted
•Agreeable •What’s in it social time with
•Relying on for me? •Discuss colleagues
Leader for •Who’s in expectations •Understand
structure charge? •Model good the system
•Learning •What is my communicat better
role? ion
•What is the
task?
Forming

10. Member Quotes Supportin Outcomes
Behavior g Actions
by the
Intructor
Storming •Power •This •Encourage •Develop
Struggles procedure is open common
•Challenging all wrong! expression communicatio
the Leader •I don’t like of feelings n
•Refusing to my role •Decrease •Develop
Participate •This is a Authoritaria Norms and
•Little waste of time n role values
Agreement •I’ve got •Encourage •Place
•Defensivene better things Active individuals
ss to do listening appropriately
•Frustration •Respond to
Feelings
Storming

11. Member Quotes Supportin Outcomes
Behavior g Actions
by the
Instructor
Norming •Dissolve •Here’s how •Determine •Develop Unity
Cliques I see it expectation •Establish Roles
•Accept •What do s •Organize Work
differences you think? •Cite group •Establish
•State •How should resources Expectations
feelings and we divide •Involve
opinions the work? every group
•Bargain •Help me to in goal
•Better understand setting
listening •Encourage
•Establish input from
boundaries all team
members
Norming

12. Member Quotes Supporting Outcomes
Behavior Actions by
the
Instructor
Performing •Resolving •How can we •Encourage •Collaborate
conflicts quickly solve this autonomy in •Establish
•Focus on quickly problem solving differentiation
achieving •Let’s get to and decision •Progress
outcomes work making toward goals
•Satisfaction in •This is great •Use resources •Personal/
team’s •What can I do? in the group Professional
efficiency •Expect both relationships
•Personal task develop
relationships accomplishment
•Desire not to and relationship
waste time development
Performing

13. Member Quotes Supporting Outcomes
Behavior Actions by
Instructor
Mourning •Efforts to •Will I ever see •Help members •Be aware of
reduce these people review their success/failure
dependency again? experience •Conclude
•Expressing •I was just •Encourage business
desire to getting to know sharing of
continue you, now we feelings
personal have to leave •Explore future
contact •We are for individuals
•Anger toward breaking up •Celebrate
Instructor just as we were successes
•Evaluation really getting it
together
Mourning

14.  http://charthouse-web.streamguys.us/flash/fl
FISH Presentation
Lunch Break

15. Microsoft Office
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Trust Me Exercise

16. Consensus Building

17.  Consensus
◦ When All Members Agree on One Alternative
◦ Each Member Believes Their Point of View is
Understood
◦ Not All Members Agree
 Reached Agreement in a Fair Manner
 Accepted as the Best Solution for the Group
Consensus

18.  Every Member Expresses Views
◦ Participates in the Discussion
 Agreed on “Workable” Choice
◦ Not the Preferred Choice by All, but acceptable
 Choice is Reached in an Open and Fair
Manner
◦ No Bullying
◦ No Abandonment of Principals
Consensus Building Requirements

19. Microsoft Office
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Consensus Exercise: Heart Surgery

20. End of Day One

21. Microsoft Office
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Day Two: Who Owns the Fish?

22.  Each Team Member has different
Personalities and Qualities
 Learning to Deal with Each Personality is a
Skill
Different Personalities

23.  http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-
win/jtypes2.asp
Jung Typology Test
Break

24.  Extraversion / Introversion
 Sensing / iNtuition
 Thinking / Feeling
 Judging / Perceiving
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Personality Types
Lunch

25. Microsoft Office
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All Aboard! – TEAM BUILDING
EXERCISE

26.  What did you Learn?
 How do you feel about Teams?
 Will you leave knowing a little more about
your Co-Workers and their strengths?
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Please fill out the evaluation form and
email it back to me at
browan@keystone.edu and include
karen.yarrish@keystone.edu
Wrap-Up

27. Thank you!
Answers to Who Owns The Fish
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28.  Authur H. Bell, D. M. (2011). Learning Team Skills. Boston, MA:
Pearson.
 Foundation, M. B. (n.d.). Myers/ Briggs Personality Types.
Retrieved March 13, 2012, from Myers/ Briggs:
http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the
 Learning, C. (n.d.). FISH Presentation. Retrieved March 12, 2012,
from Charthouse Learning:
http://charthouse-web.streamguys.us/flash/flash_prevs/FISHSHprev.ht
 Noe, R. A. (2010). Employee Training and Development 5e. New
York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
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