Opportunity Identification and
Decision-making
Teams and
Sub-arctic Survival:
A Team Development Exercise
Creating the Team
• What is a team?
• A small group with
distinct identity
• Work together in
coordinated/supported
way
• Use complementary
skills to achieve goal
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What is Teamwork?
• Attitude
• Interdependence
• Cooperation
• Actions
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• Demonstrate understanding of the whole
process
• Demonstrate understanding of individual/joint
roles
• Communicate
Basics: Group vs. Team
• Group
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Common goal
Accountable to owner
Frequent conflict
Single leader
Goals may/may not be
accomplished
• Team
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Committed to goals
Mutually accountable
Trust/collaboration
Share leadership
Synergy: 2+2=5
Why Are Teams Necessary?
• Specialization of roles based on strengths
• Global competition requires faster
response to changes
• Excelling in the Information Age
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Types of Teams
• Work
• Task
• Management
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Team Size
• Optimum: 5-7
• Small enough for relationships,
management
• Large enough for perspective
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Team Roles and Skills
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Sponsor
Facilitator
Leader
Member
Roles and Skills: Sponsor
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Remove barriers
Sanction training
Ensure implementation
Monitor performance
Provide support, recognition, reward
Roles and Skills: Facilitator(s)
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Team experts/resource
Not official team members
Assist team leader
Keep team on target
Provide stability
Neutral, empathetic
Roles and Skills: Leader
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Prepares and calls meetings
Sets location and agenda
Participates as a team member
Record-keeper
Removes roadblocks
Team representative and liaison
Roles and Skills: Member
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Expert in his (or her) activity/field
Does the work
Shares personal experience/knowledge
Standardizes processes
Looks for ways to improve
Collaborates
Keys to Team Success
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Charter: The what and why of the tasks
Expectations of the stakeholders
Confidentiality/non-attribution
Values
Stages of High-Performing
Team Development
• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
High-performing teams minimize time
spent in the first three stages.
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Questions?
Part 1
• Today you will be introduced to a real-life
situation.
• You will be given all of the information
regarding the situation as it occurred
• You will then be challenged , first individually,
and then as a team, to help your team
‘survive’
The Challenge
• Video clip
The Challenge
• The Challenge: details
– Open the booklet ‘Subarctic Survival Situation’
participant’s booklet
– Read the first 2 inside pages: Map of Crash Site,
and The Subarctic Situation
– When you are finished reading, please stand up
The Challenge
– Turn to the page : The Challenge
– Read through the instructions
– AS INDIVIDUALS, Complete Step 1 on the next
page. You will have 15 minutes to complete the
assignment
The Challenge
• Part 2: The Team challenge
– Read the instructions to Part 2
– As a team, discuss your individual answers, then
begin to write in the team’s Consensus answers
• Consensus means that when you have 2 or more
opinions, you agree to come to one answer. You may
not like the team’s answer, but you can live with it
The Challenge
• Part 2, continued
• If you don’t finish in class, you may take up to the
difference between 45 minutes total, and the
amount of time used in class. PLEASE DON”T EXCEED
THE TOTAL TIME combined in class and in evening
assignment