I created this document to help leaders in a large organization improve collaboration skills. You can update/modify as needed and adapt it for your audience. Source material is noted on the title page.
1. Collaboration What is it? Why do we do it? Why is it hard for us? How can we do it better? Resources: Teamwork 101 –John Maxwell Coping With Difficult People –Arlene Matthews Uhl Target Intranet Website Wikipedia.com Dictionary.com
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Facilitator – We want to get everybody in the room and get them started on this activity as soon as possible. We get the class started off right by staring with a fast paced activity. Direct the team members to their assigned seat. Observe team during the activity. Take note of conflict & teamwork. Take notes re: who is and isn’t listened to during the activity.
Facilitator – Team members report out directly to the big group. If no one participates, refer to your notes and ask some leading questions, ie “Judy—I noticed that you wanted the corner pieces. Did you get them? Did your teammates listen to you?” Should take 3-5 Team Member comments. This report out shouldn’t take more than 3-5 minutes.
Facilitator introduces co-facilitators and reviews ground rules.
Facilitator – We don’t want to spend too long on this one. We just want to capture some of their initial ideas.
Facilitator – Read or have audience member read it
Facilitator – Read it.
Facilitator – Have audience members volunteer to read each bullet point
Facilitator – Tables have proficiency level printouts. Listen in to the groups. Prod them along if they get stuck. Do get the teams writing on their flip chart. Watch the time. After 8 minutes, suggest that the group pick a speaker and determine what examples they will share
Facilitator – Throw candy to team members that give good responses
Facilitator – If the group did not identify these responses, review them now
Facilitator – Have audience members volunteer to read each bullet point
Facilitator – Have audience members volunteer to read each bullet point Ask “Who was St. Francis of Assissi?” Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/1182 – October 3, 1226) [2] was a Catholic deacon and the founder of the Franciscans . He is known as the patron saint of animals , the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy (with Catherine of Siena ), and it is customary for Catholic churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October. He was the first person to set up a nativity scene with live animals to celebrate Christmas. Ask “Why was Einstein famous?” Theory of Relativity, E=MC 2 , and “thought experiments” Who is John Maxwell? Mega Church pastor, best selling author, including author of “Teamwork 101.” Give the teamwork book to an audience member.
Facilitator – Have audience members volunteer to read each bullet point Ask “Who is Seneca?” Reward anyone that knows. Seneca -- At an advanced age, at the request of his sons, he prepared, it is said from memory, a collection of various school themes and their treatment by Greek and Roman orators. These he arranged in ten books of Controversiae (imaginary legal cases) in which seventy-four themes were discussed. He also wrote a history of Rome. Ask “Who is John Bunyan?” reward anyone that knows. John Bunyan (28 November 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim’s Progress (an allegory that describes a Christian’s journey of faith.)
Facilitator- Add your thoughts on how competition can improve results Or, if taken to an extreme, can hurt results
Facilitator- Ask “Where is an unusual place you got an idea?” Ask “Did you ever have an idea, work really hard on it, come to a meeting…and then everybody else started changing it and adding there input?” Did that make you feel good/bad? How should it make you feel?” Do we ask our cart attendants for ideas? Do we ask our guests for ideas? Our friends? Our families?
Facilitator- Define each term. They are self explanatory based on the titles. One note—the workplace whiner whines about serious problems and trivial ones. So you never know whether their Mom died or their alarm went off late. Everything is a disaster for them.
Facilitator- Read through the slide. Ask the audience if they’ve ever dealt with a co-worker/friend or team member like this. Have they ever used any of these techniques?
Facilitator- Read through the slide. Ask the audience if they’ve ever dealt with a co-worker/friend or team member like this. Have they ever used any of these techniques?
Facilitator- Read through the slide. Ask the audience if they’ve ever dealt with a co-worker/friend or team member like this. Have they ever used any of these techniques?
Facilitator- Read through the slide. Ask the audience if they’ve ever dealt with a co-worker/friend or team member like this. Have they ever used any of these techniques?
Facilitator- Read through the slide. Ask the audience if they’ve ever dealt with a co-worker/friend or team member like this. Have they ever used any of these techniques?
Facilitators- Pass out the cards. Ensure the teams use nothing but balloons and tape to make their towers.
Facilitator- Listen in to group discussion. Ask leading questions, if needed, to get the conversation going.
Facilitator- Until now – we’ve been talking about how you can improve at collaboration. …but you already lead teams now How well do your teams collaborate? How can you improve the collaboration in your own teams?
Facilitator- This slide is a 1 page “aside” that is really about talent management. At Target, we call it “Right Person, Right Place, Right Time.” The point is, if you don’t have the right, collaborative person on the team—it will have a huge detrimental impact to overall collaboration on the team.
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