Team Concepts and Team Building

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Team Concepts and Team Building

• CE A438
• Design of Civil Engineering Systems

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Team Concepts

• Engineering projects are ALWAYS team efforts
• The ability to successfully interact with others
  is necessary to successful engineering
• The need for learning team skills is so important
  that it is a requirement of all engineering
  programs in the U.S.

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Demonstration Exercise

• DO NOT PEEK AT THE PAPER!!!
• When told too, complete the assignment given you.
• When done, get the instructors attention so that
  your time can be recorded.

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More of the Exercise

• AGAIN.. DONT PEEK!
• When told too, complete the assignment given you.
• When done, get the instructors attention so that
  your time can be recorded.

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Exercise Summary

• What did we learn?
• What advantage is there to doing the assignment
  by yourself?
• What advantage is there to doing the assignment
  as a group?
• What skills were needed to work as a group that
  were not required when you did it by yourself?

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Competitive vs. Cooperative

• Lets do a competitive activity
• Find an opponent
• Find out who is best at Rock, Paper, Scissors
  (Best out of five attempts)
• Lets do a cooperative activity
• Find a partner
• Do what the instructor requests

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Exercise Summary

• Contrast the thoughts that went through your mind
  as you played each of the games
• Contrast the behaviors that you exhibited as you
  participated in each game
• What skills are needed to be successful in each
  case? How do they differ?

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Expected Behaviors in a Team

• Be on time
• Complete commitments/assignments
• Dont commit to something that you cant do
• Respect others views
• Ask for help when you need it
• More

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Leadership

• the process of influencing the activities of an
  individual or a group in efforts towards goal
  achievement in a given situation (BSA training
  materials)
• Leadership is LEARNED skill
• There are recognized principles and procedures
  that you can learn.

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Skills of Leadership

• Knowing and Using Resources
• Communicating
• Understanding the Characteristics and Needs of
  the Group and its Members
• Planning
• Controlling the Group

• Effective Teaching
• Representing the Group
• Evaluating
• Counseling
• Sharing Leadership
• Setting the Example

From BSA Woodbadge Training Materials
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Types of Leadership
More Participation
Less Participation
Leadership Types Autocrat Authoricrat Bureaucrat Democrat Particicrat Abdicrat
Image Order Giver Director Explainer Discusser Joint Determiner Crisis Oriented
Source of Power Self Position Rules Regulations Majority Rule Total Group Informal Organization
Quality of Acceptance Low More OK High High Chance?
Style of Leadership Telling Persuading Delegating Consulting Joining None
From BSA Woodbadge Training Materials
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Team Experience 1

• The Explosive Hula Hoop
• Objective
• Lower the hula hoop to the ground keeping it
  level and supporting it only on your index
  fingers
• Rules
• The hula hoop must stay essentially level
• Breaking contact between the hula hoop and any
  index finger causes the hula hoop to explode and
  you must start again.

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Team Experience 2

• Handcuffs
• Objective Disconnect from the rest of the group
  
• Rules
• The rope cannot be cut
• The loop cannot be slipped off anyones hands

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Team Experience 3

• Magic Carpet
• Scenario Your group is on a magic carpet 1,000
  ft up in the air. You need to see the
  instructions on the other side of the carpet.
• Challenge Flip the carpet over while standing
  on it.

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Team Experience 4

• Problem
• Three missionaries and three very hungry
  cannibals arrive at the bank of a wide river at
  the same time. Both groups wish to cross the
  river but there is only one canoe and it only
  holds two people. If the cannibals ever
  outnumber the missionaries at any time or
  location, the outnumbered missionary(ies) will be
  eaten by the cannibals.
• Objective
• Get all six people across the river without
  losing any missionaries to the hungry cannibals.

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Exercise Summary

• What group skills are necessary to accomplish the
  task?
• How does leadership affect the outcome?
• Who took charge?
• What leadership style(s) did they attempt to use?
• What leadership skills were implemented and how
  well did they work?
• What did you learn about your teammates in the
  process?