Engineering Design
Building the Team
Elements of Cohesive Teams
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Trust
Willingness to engage in conflict
Commitment
Accountability
Attention to results
Trust
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Develop confidence in your teammates
Their objectives are those of the team
Your objectives are those of the team
To build trust
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Learn something about your teammates
unrelated to the team activity
Share something of yourself
Engaging in Conflict
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Push the envelope
Actively challenge ideas
Focus on benefits to the team
Conflict ≠ Personal attacks
Personality type influences your
approach
ASSERTIVENESS
high
Approaches to Conflict
competing
collaborating
low
compromising
avoiding
low
accommodating
COOPERATIVENESS
high
Commitment
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Set aside personal agenda
Team success  personal success
Personal success ≠ team success
Accountability
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Accept responsibility
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Tasks
Schedule
Deliverables
Quality
Hold others accountable
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Remain professional
Use constructive criticism
Attention to Results
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Agree on the objective
Know how to measure it
Define milestones
Document decisions
Cohesive Teams
Focus
on collective
results
Hold each
other accountable
Commit to decisions
and action plans
Engage in unfiltered conflict
around ideas
Trust each other
As A Team:
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You can Develop that Iterative Process
Identify
need
Documentation
Test / Implement
Solution
Analyze / Select
Solution
Define
problem
Gather Information
Criteria / constraints
Generate
Multiple Solutions
As A Team:
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Which would be the Best to Do as a Team
versus Individually?
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Identify the Need?
Define the Process?
Gather Information and Constraints?
Develop Multiple Solutions?
Select the Best Solution?
Test the Solution?
Document?
They are ALL done best as a team!