Advanced Team Manager Training
Welcome!
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
WIDI, Inc.
WIDI
Inc
Advanced Team Manager Training
2013-2014
Trainer:
Ci
Crissy
B h
Buhr,
Affiliate Training Director, WIDI, Inc.
What Does Creativity
Reallyy Mean?
How to use a Shared Definition of
Creativity to Guide your Team Through
the Creative Process
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How do YOU Define
Creativity?
Creativity Definition
CREATIVITY
• Why is Defining Creativity so hard?
• Abstract concept
• Many definitions
• No right or wrong way to define
• “Implied” meaning…people just ‘know’ what it
is
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Common Definition
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CREATIVITY
• Common Language is important to ensure you and
your team are on the same page
• Take time early in the year to define terms
• When I ask you if you think something is
creative I mean…..
• Use intentional language and encourage your kids
to do the same
• Don
Don’tt make assumptionsassumptions assumptions can lead to
Interference!
Creativity Is….
•
•
•
•
•
Creativity
Productive
Characterized by Expression
Imaginative
Extends Beyond Natural Limits
Causes something to come into existence
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Productive
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CREATIVITY
 S
Something
thi g should
h ld be
b ‘Produced’
‘P d
d’ as partt off the
th
process
 Just because there is something physically there
doesn’t mean they are producing
 Student, Team, Individual is going to do the thinking
Characterized by Expressiveness
CREATIVITY
 The look, feeling, personality, should be about the
t
team
 Ask yourself: Do I see them in the solution?
 Do I see the group as a unit? Do I see
individuals being represented?
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Imaginative
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CREATIVITY
 An individual has the ability to create a mental
picture
i t
off th
their
i very own
 Is it something they’ve seen before that they are
regurgitating? Teach the to tell the difference!
 Want to take the ideas they’ve seen before and
synthesize them and make something new
Extends Beyond Natural Limits
CREATIVITY
 In Order for you to know what the natural limits are,
you need a baseline of your team
 What skills do they have? What do they bring to
the team?
 Do ICs, Team Builders and watch them to see
where they are at
 As a TM: want to push your team to go beyond what
they know how to do and go further
 Tough territoryterritory teams may want to give up,
up but
you want to push them to do something out of
their comfort zone
 Get permission at beginning of the year to not
let them give up
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Come into Existing
CREATIVITY
 Cause something to be there that wasn’t there
b f
before
 Difference between making something that
comes to life and something that exists
How do You define
Creative Thinking?
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Creative Thinking
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CREATIVITY
 What are the Characteristics of Creative thinking?
 Fluency
Fl
 Flexibility
 Originality
 Elaboration
 Evaluation
Fluency
CREATIVITY
 Lots of Ideas
 Quantity
Q
tit nott Q
Quality
lit
Early in the Year, have the kids do this individually so
you can discovery who they are
Start with Simple Activities to get them used to the
process
• Name things that are red
• Name 6 characters
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Flexibility
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CREATIVITY
• Help your team engage in thought shiftsencourage
g th
them to
t be
b ADD
• Need to teach our kids how thought shifts work
• We work hard to discourage thought shiftswant them to focus on one thing at a time in
school (discourage ADD)
• Help teams recognize thought shifts through
practice
Though Shift
CREATIVITY
• Name things that are red…..
• On
O a Playground
Pl g
d
• In the Kitchen
• In a Movie Theater
• At the Bank
• In a Restaurant
• Make them go down the list and shift category with
every answer
• Name a character that exists in above places
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Advanced Though Shift
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CREATIVITY
• Name things that are red-in the abstract:
• Love
L
• Greed
• War
• Embarrassment
• Anger
Goal:
Fluent Flexible Thinkers
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Elaboration
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CREATIVITY
• Not always about MORE
• Can
C be
b using
i gd
details
t il effectively
ff ti l
• Ask yourself: what am I elaborating for? Who is
my audience?
• If the is too much you can’t take it all in…kids
need the opportunity to see the details
Originality
CREATIVITY
• Originality is not:
• Cute,
C t neat,
t tidy
tid
• It can be sloppy but original
• We are looking for something unique, one of a
kind
• Ask yourself: what are the differentiating
factors? What makes this different from other
things that we
we’ve
ve seen? Different from what
other teams are doing?
• Often times this comes from combining
things to make something new
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Evaluation
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CREATIVITY
• Judging everything (Idea Directing/ Critical
thi ki g)
thinking)
• Asking why
• Understanding the choices that are made and
making sure you are deliberate about them
• Things should be chosen for a specific
reason
don t know’
know and ‘Just
Just
• Try to push past the ‘II don’t
because’ responses to get them to think
about how why they made the choice
Managing a DI Team:
Directing the Creative
Process
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What is it?
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Creative Process
• Describes the learning processes involved in solving a
Destination Imagination Challenge
• Emphasizes the process over the product
• Provides concrete learning objectives
– i.e. “utilize convergent and divergent thinking”
• All-inclusive view of the benefits of participation in Destination
Imagination
What it’s not…
• A checklist to be completed
• A step-by-step,
step by step linear process
• Designed to constrict thinking methods
• A set of rules that must be followed
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An Overview
Recognize
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Creative Process
ROADMAP
GOALS:
1. Get to know each other: Team building, setting ground rules
2. Learn the Basics: Team Challenge, Instant Challenge, Rules of the Road
3. Help your team get started
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The Individual Specialties
Inventory
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Recognize
Identifies individual interests and specialties and allows the group
to find their overall strengths and interests.
Quality Teamwork
Recognize
• Develops from:
– Shared Experiences
– Trust
– Mutual respect
– Time
• Requires effort – it will not happen overnight nor without work
from all team members and the Team Manager
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Stages of Team
Development
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Recognize
• Forming – coming together to form a team
• Storming – creating a “team”
team feeling
• Norming – accomplishing tasks
• Performing – self-directed progress
• Adjourning – recognizing and celebrating success
Team Development
Recognize
• Teams often move back and forth between stages of
development
• Teams can get “stuck” in a stage and require an extra push to
proceed to the next stage
• Team-building activities can help to effectively create shared
experiences that move the team from one stage of development
t the
to
th nextt
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Some Team Building
Activities
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Recognize
• Stack ‘Em Up
• Tying the Knot
• Helium Hula Hoop
• “Trust” activities
• And many more…
Imagine
ROADMAP
GOALS:
1. Work on Team Challenge: Idea Generation, Research & Inquiry
2. Continue Learning the Program: Instant Challenge, Learn about
Clarifications, Check you Calendar
3. Continue reflecting the process
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Idea Generation
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Imagine
• The first step in problem-solving
• Should be:
– Fun
– Liberating
– Exhilarating
– Open
– Judgment-free
Rules for Idea Generation
Sessions
Imagine
• If you think it, share it
• Don
Don’tt evaluate or judge ideas
– Your own, or someone else’s
• Team Manager cannot offer ideas
– Interference
– Team might have idea on their own, but if TM offers it, the
team can’t use it
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Thinking Styles for Idea
Generation
Imagine
• Divergent thinking – developing possibilities for open-ended
questions
– Explores multiple solutions
– “I wonder if we could…”
• Convergent thinking – developing solutions to a specific
problem
– Has an end-goal in mind prior to generating
– “How might we…?”
Idea Generation Activities
• Brainstorming
– Blurt and write
– Think and throw
– Quick
– Ties and action to
– Useful for initial
generating
– Does not “force”
creativity or
participation
Creativity
• Beach Ball Brainstorm
thinking process
– More Organized and
Structured
– “Forces” creativity
and participation
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Initiate
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ROADMAP
GOALS:
1. Work on the Team Challenge: Idea Focusing, Experiment &
Development, Team Choice Element Integration
2. Prepare for your Tournament: Instant Challenges, Review
materials
Collaborate
GOALS:
1. Team Building
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Initiate &
Collaborate
• Initiate stage directs ideas into solutions
– Identify the “best”
best ideas
– Decision-making is a team process
– Prevent unilateral solutions
• Collaborating is working together to produce the solution
– Establishing a workflow (divided or as a unit)
– Utilizing individual and team strengths
– Learning together and from one another
Idea Directing Tools
Initiate &
Collaborate
• Simple tools that elicit positive input and help make decisions
as a team without hurting feelings
• Simple activities with effective results
• Everyone provides input, everyone invests in solution
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Initiate &
Collaborate
Idea Directing
• Objective Ranking
• Strong-Weak-Special
– Simple
– Discussion-oriented
Discussion oriented
– Quick
– More Collaborative
– Direct
– Much more detailed
• Choice Helper
feedback
– More complex
– More detailed
– Individual Input
Learning to Collaborate
Initiate &
Collaborate
• Collaboration is learned by working in a group
– Practice Instant Challenges
– Communicate frequently
– Provide checkpoints for discussion
– Allow team members to pursue their passion in creating the
solution
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Assess
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ROADMAP
GOALS:
1 D
1.
Do your H
Homework:
k Instant
I t t Ch
Challenges,
ll
Complete
C
l t your Paperwork,
P
k
Practice!
2. Inform Parents: Share dates & travel information
An ongoing process
Assess
• Team Members provide constructive feedback
• Learn to admit failure when necessary
• Team should set decision points for success
– If it doesn’t work by ____, then we will have to re-evaluate
our solution
• Learn when to adjust and when to start again
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Guiding Questions
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Assess
• Does our solution solve the Challenge?
• Is this still our best idea or option?
• Is it working?
• How would someone score this according to the Challenge?
Scoring as Assessment
Assess
• Scores are referenced to the Challenge
• Use the Reward Point section like a rubric for assessing your
work
• Be sure to meet/exceed the expectations of the scored element
– If it has to move 10 ft. be sure it moves 10 ft. – not 9 ½ ft.
– Scored on creativity – then be sure it’s creative
• For the purpose of solving the Challenge, use the Reward Points
to help guide your planning. Prioritize the solution – heavily
scored elements should receive lots of attention
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Types of Scores
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Assess
• Objective – Did it happen?
– Yes – full p
points
– No – zero points
• Subjective
– How well did it work?
– Was it creative?
– Based on the impression of the Appraisers
• Assess your solution on both types of scored elements, from
various viewpoints
Evaluate
GOALS:
1. Enforce the Process
2. Celebrate what the team has accomplished
3. Thank Your Supporters
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Looking Back
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Evaluate
• What did we learn from this experience?
• How can it inform our future ideas and/or decisions?
• Can we go back and adjust something now that we learned
something new?
• When can we start again?
Creativity