INDYProjectCon 2018 - September 7th, 2018 http://projectconevent.com/

1. FINDING YOUR TEAM’S PURPOSE
Sonal Sheth Zawahri

2. FINDING YOUR TEAM’S
PURPOSE
Sonal Sheth Zawahri

3. Objectives
• Learn to identify the purpose of your team
• Discover ways to determine, together, how you can work better as a
team
• Learn techniques to effectively communicate with others

4. Identifying Your Team’s Purpose

5. CLARIFY YOUR PURPOSE
What is the why behind everything you do?
When we know this… it is empowering and the path is clear.
-Jack Canfield

6. HOW TO IDENTIFY PURPOSE
Dr Ryan T Hartwig
• Identify the core outcomes
• Determine the crucial tasks your team must tackle.
• Based on those identified outcomes and tasks, engage in dialogue to
narrow and establish the team’s specific purpose
• Give everything else that doesn’t fit that purpose away.
• Increase assessment of your team’s outcomes
• Celebrate success. Then, raise the bar. Don’t rest on your laurels

7. 4 Components of
Emotional Intelligence
Self-
Awareness
Self-
Management
Social Awareness
(Empathy)
Relationship
Management

8. Behaviors That Impact Performance: Activity
1. Form teams of six and move your chairs so that you are sitting in a circle.
2. Each group is a functioning work team and your goal is to work together to
identify an off-site team building event that you can all participate in
together.
3. I will provide each of you with a label; please don’t show your label to anyone.
Then turn to the person to your right and put the label on that person’s
forehead.
4. For this exercise, please respect one another’s labels.
5. Reminder: Your goal is to develop a team-building event
6. You have seven minutes as a group to work toward it.

9. Debrief questions
1. How did you feel about how you were treated? What impact did
your team members’ behaviors have on your performance?
2. What behaviors motivated your performance?
3. What behaviors hindered your performance?
4. What does this exercise tell us about how behaviors impact
performance?

10. Takeaways

11. “A lot of different flowers make a bouquet.”
—Author Unknown

12. CONNECTION!

13. FROM CONNECTING TO
COMMUNICATING

14. Match Me If You Can Activity

15. Activity: Match Me If You Can

16. Tailor Your Message
▶ Be a flexible communicator
▶ Avoid making assumptions
▶ Suspend the ego
▶ Are You Listening?
▶ Eye-contact
▶ Be present (knock, knock are you there?)
▶ Repeat the last phrase

17. Objectives: mission accomplished
✓ Identify our team purpose
✓ Determine, together, how we can work better as a
team
✓ Learn techniques to effectively communicate with
others

18. Sonal Sheth Zawahri
SonalShethZawahri@gmail.com
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