Team Building and Goal
Setting
12 C’s of Team Building
By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com Guide
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Clear Expectations: Do team members understand
why the team was created?
Context: Does the team understand where its work
fits in the total context of the School’s Mission?
Commitment: Do team members want to participate
on the team?
Competence: Does the team feel that it has the
appropriate people participating?
Charter: Has the team defined and communicated its
goals; its anticipated outcomes and contributions; its
timelines; and how it will measure both the outcomes
of its work and the process the team followed to
accomplish their task?
Control: Does the team have enough freedom and
empowerment to feel the ownership necessary to
accomplish its charter?
12 C’s Cont.
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Collaboration: Are team members working together
effectively interpersonally?
Communication: Do team members communicate
clearly and honestly with each other?
Creative Innovation: Is the group really interested in
change?
Consequences: Do team members feel responsible
and accountable for team achievements?
Coordination: Are teams coordinated by a central
leadership team that assists the groups to obtain what
they need for success?
Cultural Change: Does the group recognize that the
team-based, collaborative, empowering, enabling
organizational culture of the future is different than the
traditional, hierarchical culture?
Icebreaker Examples
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Find 10 things in common: Divide group into pairs or smaller
groups of 3 and tell them that their assignment is to find ten things
they have in common, with every other person in the group, that have
nothing to do with work. (I tell people no body parts (we all have
legs; we all have arms) and no clothing (we all wear shoes, we all
wear pants). This helps the group explore shared interests more
broadly. Tell the groups that one person must take notes and be ready
to read their list to the whole group upon completion of the
assignment.
Spirit Read: Pick an educational quote (or any applicable quote). One
person starts the read and others read theirs as their quote “fit”. No
additional comments as the quotes are read.
What are you doing? Sitting in a circle, one person starts by saying
what unusual thing they have been asked to do as part of their job.
The person next to them acts that out while saying what they had to
do. Continues around circle
Structures: Select a photograph of a structure that represents
_____________(ex: your leadership style). Go around circle and
share.