Team Building
By Lacey Hoogland
Education Specialist
Outcomes
• Build personal knowledge on building team
collaboration
• Develop norms for our team
• Begin relationship building
• Identify protocols for team use
Successful Team Building
Focus
Roles
Relationships
Process Structure
Team Building 1
• Write down three numbers between 1 and 10.
• Now write down associations you have with
two of the numbers.
– i.e. 3, 7, 10: 3 is the number of siblings I have & 10
is the number of nieces and nephews I have
• Share your association with the numbers with
those at your table
Successful Team Building
“Anyone too busy to reflect on one’s practice
is too busy to improve.” – Robert Garmston
• Reflecting on your team how do you stack
up against the 5 elements of successful
team?
• Complete the inventory as an individual.
Then discuss as a team. “What would make
our team more productive?”
Team Player
“Anyone too busy to reflect on one’s practice
is too busy to improve.” – Robert Garmston
Now rate yourself as a Team Player?
Then identify 3 areas for self-improvement.
Team Player
“We are all in the same room, but not in the
same place.” – Anonymous
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Learning
Critical Questions
Collaboration
Performance Goals
Access to Relevant Information
Team Development
Relationships
Candy Confessions
• Getting to know you:
– Milk Chocolate: What is your favorite book, tv
show or movie?
– Milk Chocolate with Almonds: What was your
first job and what did you learn from it?
– Extra Cream with Toffee & Almonds: Where
would be your dream vacation spot and why?
– Special Dark: Tell us one thing that is still on your
bucket list.
Relationships
• Dysfunctions: Read through the five
dysfunctions.
• Create a pair or triad with people not from
your school and share one area where your
team or school could improve.
• Return to your table and discuss one area
where your team or school could improve.
Trust
Trust Builders
Trust Busters
Lunch Question
Thinking about the Five Dysfunctions and the
Trust Builders and Busters, what is one area
that you will practice working on in the
coming year?
See you at 12:30!
Review
• Team Development
• Relationships
• Trust Building
Collaboration
• Look at the 7 Norms of Collaboration labels
with your team. Together complete what
each one looks or sounds like and it’s
benefits.
Collaboration
• Pausing: listen attentively, allow time for thoughts
• Paraphrasing: clarify content, summarize
• Putting Inquiry at the Center: advocate for personal
ideas, inquire about others ideas
• Probing: seeks agreement, clarification
• Putting Ideas on the Table: states intention, provides facts,
opinions, ideas
• Paying Attention to Self & Others: maintain awareness of
thoughts and feelings, awareness of groups goals
• Presuming Positive Intentions: act as if others mean well,
restrain impulses
What do you need in
your toolbox?
Task and
product
accomplishment
Relationships
and team
development
Stay in the center
Can’t do too much content
Can’t do too much relationship building
Keep content defined
Structure
Decision Making Structures
– Autocratic
– Consultative
– Majority Rule
– Near or Sufficient Consensus
• Where is our team, where do we want to
be, how do we get there?
Norms
• How will we work together?
• Video 5
• Develop your team norms
What’s in your toolbox?
Which one are you?
Screwdriver
Ruler
Hammer
Hand drill
Saw
Wrench
Pencil
Other
What’s in your toolbox?
Which one are you?
Screwdriver
Ruler
Hammer
Hand drill
Saw
Wrench
Pencil
Other
Tell you table mates what you selected
and what that means for getting started
with your teams.
Roles
• In light of what “tool” you are, what roles
will you have on the team?
• Will your team rotate roles?
• Do the roles need to be reflected in your
norms?
Meeting Structure
• Looking at the meeting structure compare
and contrast it to what you already utilize
for meeting structure?
• Are there any additions you have a need
for on the structure?
Process & Protocols
• What are they?
• What do they do?
• When do you use them?
Process & Protocols
• What process and protocols does your
team use already, if any?
• Read through the protocols and select one
that resonates with you. Share that
protocol with the team and why you like it.
• What strategies will we use to increase
productivity & contributions?
Process & Protocols
• Practice:
Know the Difference
Dialogue
• Different views are
presented as a way of
discovering a new view
• Free and create
exploration of complex
and subtle issues
• A deep listening
• A suspending of one’s
views
• Deepens understanding
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Discussion
Different views are
presented and defended
in search of the best view
to support a decision
Analyze and dissect an
issue from many points
Winning is usually the
goal but must take
second priority to
coherence and truth
From percussion,
concussion – a pingponging of something
between us
Decisions are made
Process & Protocols
• When time is short & a decision is vital:
– What’s stopping us from making a decision?
– What’s happening?
Closing Process & Protocols
1. Who will do what by when?
2. Who will communicate informally and
formally to whom?
3. What will be communicated regarding
decisions at today’s meeting?
4. What are next steps?
5. Under what conditions would you be
tempted to deviate from these
communication agreements that we just
made?
Watching a Team
• Video 3
• What protocols, roles, and focus do you
observe?
Spaces and Logs
One Word
• On a sticky note write down one word that
best summarizes progress made or feelings
on todays session.
• Please leave the sticky note at your table.
Thanks!