Opportunity Identification and Decision-making

Teams and Sub-arctic Survival:

A Team Development Exercise

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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• Demonstrate understanding of the whole

process• Demonstrate understanding of individual/joint

roles• Communicate

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Basics: Group vs. Team

• Group• Common goal• Accountable to owner• Frequent conflict• Single leader• Goals may/may not be

accomplished

• Team• Committed to goals• Mutually accountable• Trust/collaboration• Share leadership• Synergy: 2+2=5

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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

• Sponsor• Facilitator• Leader• Member

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Roles and Skills: Sponsor

• Remove barriers• Sanction training• Ensure implementation• Monitor performance• Provide support, recognition, reward

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Roles and Skills: Facilitator(s)

• Team experts/resource• Not official team members• Assist team leader• Keep team on target• Provide stability• Neutral, empathetic

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Roles and Skills: Leader

• Prepares and calls meetings• Sets location and agenda• Participates as a team member• Record-keeper• Removes roadblocks• Team representative and liaison

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Roles and Skills: Member

• Expert in his (or her) activity/field• Does the work• Shares personal experience/knowledge• Standardizes processes• Looks for ways to improve• Collaborates

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Keys to Team Success

• Charter: The what and why of the tasks• Expectations of the stakeholders• Confidentiality/non-attribution• Values

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Stages of High-Performing Team Development

• Forming

• Storming

• Norming

• PerformingHigh-performing teams minimize time

spent in the first three stages.

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