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TEAM BUILDING
Three Major Topics
HELPING TO DEVELOP A TEAM
ROLES OF LEADERS
MOTIVATION OF TEAM
MEMBERS
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Helping to Develop a Team
ROLES OF LEADERS
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A. Help people to:
Learn
Grow
Develop their abilities as they
Work together successfully on
common task(s).
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B. Being Effective Group
Leaders Involve the Following:
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 1. Enter thoughtfully into one's role
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B. Effective Group Leaders Involves the
Following:
 1. Enter thoughtfully into one's role
 2. Carefully prepare ahead of time:
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2. Carefully prepare ahead of
time:
thinking through problems,
issues, and potential solution
detailed preparation
use one's own intelligence, gifts
and insights in preparation and
role
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 1. Enter thoughtfully into one's role
 2. Carefully prepare ahead of time:
 3. Raise up the team – equipped,
empowered, doers and not just talkers
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3. Raise up team – equipped, empowered,
doers and not just talkers
 Equip and empower go together – one
without other is truncated experience,
ultimately frustrating
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 1. Enter thoughtfully into one's role
 2. Carefully prepare ahead of time:
 3. Raise up team – equipped,
empowered, doers and not just talkers
 4. Act as catalyst and facilitator, as
helper and director, not dictator.
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 4. Act as catalyst and facilitator, as
helper and director, not dictator.
 5. Are knowledgeable of small group
dynamics/processes
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 5. Are knowledgeable of small group
dynamics/processes
 6. Act as servant of group not master
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 5. Are knowledgeable of small group
dynamics/processes
 6. Act as servant of group not master
 7. Share leadership easily and
willingly among group members,
making use of initiative and
experiences of each
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 8. Know the goals for the group if it is
assigned tasks from someone outside
of group
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 8. Know the goals for the group if it is
assigned tasks from someone outside
of group
 9. Aid the group to formulate its own
goals
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 8. Know the goals for the group if it is
assigned tasks from someone outside
of group
 9. Aid the group to formulate its own
goals
 10. Aid the group to own the goals and
to determine the tasks associated with
its goals
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 11. Sensitive to group and to each
individual within it
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 11. Sensitive to group and to each
individual within it
 12. Reaffirm each member, helping
each to perceive him/herself as
valuable and as having a worthwhile
role to play
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 13. Look for compensating factors in
each group member – sees value in
each person
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 13. Look for compensating factors in
each group member – sees value in
each person
 14. Work for feelings of equality
among members
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 13. Look for compensating factors in
each group member – sees value in
each person
 14. Work for feelings of equality
among members
 15. Ask for input to accomplish tasks
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 15. Ask for input from each team
member to accomplish tasks
 16. Listen sensitively and carefully to
each and is able to restate ideas of
others concisely and accurately
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 16. Listen sensitively and carefully to
each and is able to restate ideas of
others concisely and accurately
 17. Moderate all sides of issue and
helps group to integrate ideas for
common goal
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 17. Moderate all sides of issue and
helps group to integrate ideas for
common goal
 18. Seek consensus rather than a vote
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 18. Seek consensus rather than a vote
 19. Facilitate problem solving:
>ask provocative questions
>provide or suggests resources
>encourage all to speak
>redirect questions to group
>alleviate blocks and/or tension
>help to sift different viewpoints
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19. Facilitate problem solving:
>avoid dominating discussion
>avoid one person dominating
discussion
>maintain permissive atmosphere for
interaction—all ideas welcomed
>keep discussion moving towards the
point
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19. Facilitate problem solving:
>control irrelevant questions and
comments by focusing on goal
>offer summaries of discussions, issues,
progress, etc. as means of moving
ahead
>clarify various options
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19. Facilitate problem solving:
>facilitate listing of solutions to tasks
and means to achieve goal
>aid group to accept own
responsibilities
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 19. Facilitate problem solving
 20. Facilitate closure to tasks and goal
WHO will
DO WHAT by
WHEN with
WHAT DEGREE OF
SUCCESS?
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B. Effective Group Leaders
 21. Are not afraid to ask group to stop
discussions and to pray for guidance!
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 22. Raise up team who will raise up
other teams
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Help team to build a new team of
leaders:
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Help team to build a new team of
leaders:
>not team members as team,
>nor followers of team leader,
but team members . . .
>who lead others into being teams
>who in turn can lead others to be
a team.
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 22. Raise up team who will raise up
other teams
 23. Celebrate accomplishments,
achievements, milestones/kilometer
markers.
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IN SUMMARY:
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 1.
Enter thoughtfully into one's role
 2. Carefully prepare ahead of time:
 3. Raise up team – equipped,
empowered, doers and not just talkers
 4. Act as catalyst and facilitator, as
helper and director, not dictator.
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 5.
Are knowledgeable of small group
dynamics/processes
 6. Act as servant of group not master
 7. Share leadership easily and
willingly among group members,
making use of initiative and
experiences of each
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 8.
Know the goals for the group if it is
assigned tasks from someone outside of
group
 9. Aid the group to formulate its own
goals
 10.Aid the group to own the goals and to
determine the tasks associated with its
goals
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 11.
Sensitive to group and to each
individual within it
 12. Reaffirm each member, helping
each to perceive him/herself as
valuable and as having a worthwhile
role to play
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 13.
Look for compensating factors in
each group member – sees value in
each person
 14. Work for feelings of equality
among members
 15. Ask for input to accomplish tasks
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 16.
Listen sensitively and carefully to
each and is able to restate ideas of
others concisely and accurately
 17. Moderate all sides of issue and
helps group to integrate ideas for
common goal
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 18.
Seek consensus rather than a vote
 19. Facilitate problem solving
 20. Facilitate closure to tasks and
goal
 21.
Not afraid to ask group to
stop discussions and to pray for
guidance!
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B.
Effective Group Leaders
 22.
Raise up team who will raise up
other teams
 23.
Celebrate accomplishments,
achievements, milestones/kilometer
markers.
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BUILDING A TEAM
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BUILDING A TEAM
1.
Building a team is a process;
it takes time to build a team
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BUILDING A TEAM
1.
Building a team is a process;
it takes time to build a team
2. Requires a primary
commitment of all involved to the
basic philosophical values that
govern the organization
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BUILDING A TEAM
3. Requires commitment &
actions from the team “builder” to
help:
 equip,
 empower, and
 send team members to do the
work
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BUILDING A TEAM
4. Requires commitment from the
team members to:
 Each other,
 Values of the team,
 Learn,
 Do,
 Be
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BUILDING A TEAM
 5.
Requires shared vision: we agree
on where we are going;
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Vision, Mission, Purpose,
Outcomes/Goals are clear enough
for all to commit to it (although not
necessarily all people know how to
achieve the goal at the beginning)
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BUILDING A TEAM
6.
Requires shared vocation:
called to work together to
accomplish the common vision
under the shared values and
beliefs.
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BUILDING A TEAM
7. Requires building trust –
Open sharing, i.e., community, mutual
responsibilities to each other,
organization, and tasks.
 Trust
is based on character:
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Trust is based on character:
 people
of integrity,
 love,
 sincerity,
 respect,
 seeing
potential in each other and
 potential to accomplish task
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Building Trust
True
community must exist
among team members
 Team members know each
other, have high regard for each
other, are in community with
each other
 Pray for each other
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8. Plan together, which involves
following:
get to know each other – relate
to each other first as human
beings, then focus on task
 to
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Plan together
help
all to focus on common
values and vision, i.e. develop
vocation:
where going
 how get there
 what resources needed
 what are the issues, problems,
needs, concerns
outcomes desired and hoped for
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Plan together
problem solve together using
various techniques associated
with problem solving, for
example:
 brainstorm
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Plan together
9.
Keep vision in front of people
– “flag bearers”
 10. Get started and build and
keep momentum going: don’t
become lazy as leader nor as
team
 11. Sacrifice
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MOTIVATION
MOTIVATING MEMBERS OF
A TEAM
A COMMITTEE
A GROUP
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Psychological Motivation
Ways to help a person become motivated
psychologically:
 Share One's self with other [use empathy,
cross-cultural skills]
 Set example
 Become a significant other and recognize
this fact [use empathy, cross-cultural skills]
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Evaluate with Team or Committee the
accomplishment of previous task(s).
Ask them how effectively they accomplished
the task(s).
Give praise when task(s) is/are well done.
Give constructive suggestions when there is
need for improvement
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Motivation
Encourage:
Selective praising of worthy deeds, attitudes,
etc.
 Stimulate: "prodding"
Pre-requisites:
others respect you
others accept your prodding
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Motivate by Association:
Help other to see similarities between
present motivation state and a new
experience to which present motivation
can transfer
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Facilitation:
Help a person accomplish and
become successful in an experience
with knowledge, skills
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Motivating people to work on a
Team or Committee.
Team or Committee responsibility is an
important task.
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Challenge
Challenge Team or Committee members
with the task:
Why is the task important?
What difficulties will there be to overcome?
What rewards do you foresee?
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Share the RESPONSIBILITY (doing of it)
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Share AUTHORITY (decisions of it).
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Help Team or Committee to think of job
as “OURS"
not "mine" nor "yours."
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Give the details of the task(s) in detail.
Let Team or Committee know what has
to be done.
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Let Team or Committee set its own goals,
what they want to accomplish.
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Ask them how they will know when they
have achieved their goal.
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 Express
confidence in the Team or
Committee and the individuals'
abilities to get the task(s) done well
(assuming you can do this honestly).
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 Be
enthusiastic yourself about the job.
 Be a prepared leader yourself:
 Come with a few ideas to begin
discussion.
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 Come
with paper and pencils to let
Team or Committee write down ideas.
 Use
proper small group techniques
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Celebrate each successful major decision
and accomplishment, and any other
reasons for celebrations, e.g.,
birthdays, special holidays, etc.
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Building a functioning Team is worth
the hard work and effort to
accomplish the common task.
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© 2003, revised 2010.
John M. Dettoni, Ph.D.
311 West Avenida Gaviota
San Clemente, CA 92672-5445 USA
phone: + 949-498-1078; fax: + 949-498-2799
email: [email protected]
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