Building Your Dream Team

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Building Your Dream Team

• Source John Trent
• www.strongfamilies.com

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The opposite of team-building

• Is a fear-based environment
• Here, all communal and creative energy is
  subverted into building bunkers

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Instead

• Assume everyone on the team brings unique and
  invaluable strengths to the project and process
• Make strength-discovery the first priority

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L.O.G.B. profiles

• Take 3 minutes
• Circle every word that applies to you
• Double the in each box
• Plot on graph

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Lions

• Dont need motivating
• Point them in the right direction and let them go
• Love to do what is said to be un-doable

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Otters

• Fun-loving, talkative
• Great to start new things, less attention to
  detail and finishing

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Golden Retrievers

• Sensitive, caring, compassionate
• Like to go deeper

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Beaver

• Do things by the book
• Are detailed and organized
• Good finishers

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At the party

• The lion calls it
• The otter talks to everyone
• The golden retriever talks to one person all
  night
• The beaver actually brings the food

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So when building the team

• Every good team is a zoo
• Recognize love is the core value
• And that verbal affirmation is indispensable
• Understand that Jesus modeled each characteristic

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When theres friction on the team

• Try a strength-finding exercise on
  www.Lifewayinsights.com
• Downloadable workbooks

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Taming the ZooStory-boarding

• Quick enough for the lions
• Fun enough for the otters
• Unified enough for the golden retrievers
• Organized enough for the beavers

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Steps 1, 2 3

• Brainstorm the purpose
• Sharpen the purpose
• Turn your purpose statement into a run-on sentence

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Steps 4 5

• 4. Brainstorm the toppers
• Critique the toppers

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Steps 6 7

• Brainstorm the subbers
• Sharpen the subbers
• and then create a time-line

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Building Your Dream Team

• John Chandler
• The Ray and Ann Spence Network for Congregational
  Leadership
• www.rasnet.org