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Welcome to the Team Innovation Seminar
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• I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

David Livingstone
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Seminar Goals

• Discover the dimensions you use on teams
• Identify your most comfortable role on a team
• Develop strategies that will help you work on a
  team to create, refine, advance, and implement
  new ideas
• Determine effective ways to balance, integrate,
  and capitalize on the different strengths of each
  team member

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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Understanding the Team Dimensions Model
• The Team Dimensions Process
• Dealing with Our Differences
• Together is Better
• Wrap-up

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Introductions

• Partners name
• Position/job
• What frustrated your partner the most about
  working on teams?
• What would your partner like to learn from this
  seminar?
• What does your partner hope the ideal outcome of
  this seminar will be?

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• Any culture, by definition, exists primarily to
  prevent change, to set in stone the lessons of
  the past.

Robert Eaton
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• The problem is never how to get new, innovative
  thoughts into our mind, but how to get the old
  ones out.

Dee Hock
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• Innovation Dilemma

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Janssens Model of Change
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• Ignore, ridicule, attack, copy, steal.

Arthur Jones, Nautilus Inventor
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Teams

• Individuals are creative

• Teams are innovative

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Hit the Mark Team Scores
 
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Understanding the Team Dimensions Model

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Team Dimensions 2.0 Model

• One dimension measures a persons focus on
  Possibilities or Realities.

• The other dimension measures a persons focus on
  Analysis or Interaction.

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Team Dimensions 2.0 Model
Focus on Possibilities
POSSIBILITIES vs REALITIES
POSSIBILITIES

• Appreciate imaginative or abstract activities
• Enjoy discussing concepts and exploring
  alternatives
• Adept a visualizing the master plan and creating
  an innovative plan

Focus on Realities
REALITIES

• Prefer practical, systematic activities
• Enjoy tackling structured projects and getting
  concrete results
• Adept a performing detail-oriented work

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Team Dimensions 2.0 Model
ANALYSIS vs INTERACTION
ANALYSIS
Focus on Interaction
Focus on Analysis

• Has a logical and questioning viewpoint
• Strives for objectivity
• Skeptical of new ideas

INTERACTION

• Concerned with feelings and relationships
• Pays close attention to personal communication
• Receptive to new ideas

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The Creator Role
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The Advancer Role
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The Refiner Role
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The Executor Role
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The Flexer Role
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Understanding the Team Dimensions Model
• The Team Dimensions Process

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P.E.P. Cycle
Elation
Panic
Panic
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Creator P.E.P. Cycle
Panic
Short-lived stage.
Elation
Gets an idea.
Panic
What if they dont like it?
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Advancer P.E.P. Cycle
Doesnt have any ideas.
Panic
I hear one I like. I have some experience with a
similar idea.
Elation
People poke holes in the ideas and raise
objections to them.
Panic
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Refiner P.E.P. Cycle
No ideas. Advancer brings ideas.
Panic
Clarifies objections, pokes new holes in ideas,
makes them better.
Elation
What if they cant handle the requirements?
Panic
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Executor P.E.P. Cycle
Oh, youre going to change?
Panic
Now I have the information I need and can
implement the plan/idea.
Elation
Afraid it wont work.
Panic
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Flexer P.E.P. Cycle
We have nothing.
Panic
Plays role of dealmaker providing team balance
Elation
What if they dont buy it?
Panic
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The Z-Process
Possibilities
Analysis
Interaction
Realities
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The Z-Process
WHAT IS THE Z-PROCESS?

• The Z-process describes the stages through which
  projects or ideas often progress in an
  organization
• Stage 1 Creating
• Stage 2 Advancing
• Stage 3 Refining
• Stage 4 Executing
• Each individual has areas within this Z-process
  that are more natural for him or her than others
• The goal is to identify these natural strengths
  and help co-workers develop a dialogue around
  them

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The Creating Stage

• Generate as many new ideas as possible.
• See things from a new angle and perhaps break
  some traditional rules.
• Should start with an open brainstorming
• No ideas are rejected as unrealistic or
  impossible.

Possibilities
Creating
Analysis
Interaction
Realities
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The Advancing Stage

• The team moves the idea forward and starts to
  give it some shape.
• They consider the practical issues and begin to
• Put together a broad plan to turn this idea into
  reality.
• Communication is key as the team attends to the
  "human" part of the project.
• Team members need to know
• What's going on
• What role they might play
• Why it's important
• The team needs to maintain energy and optimism
  around the idea.

Possibilities
Interaction
Analysis
Advancing
Realities
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The Refining Stage

• The team evaluates the idea to see what's
  realistic.
• They examine project ideas for holes or flaws.
• They scrutinize and analyze plans to determine if
  they will work in the real world.
• The team puts together a more specific plan for
  implementation.
• This plan considers what could go wrong.
• What could be more efficient
• How communication will flow.

Possibilities
Analysis
Interaction
Refining
Realities
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The Executing Stage

• The team sets its plan into full swing.
• This stage requires considerable dedication,
  organization, and scheduling.
• Team members need to have the patience to follow
  through on routine or repetitive tasks.

Possibilities
Analysis
Interaction
Executing
Realities
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The P.E.P. Cycle
Performance
Flexer
Creator
Time
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World Record for the Outdoor 400 Meter
Dash 43.18 Seconds
World Record for the 400 Meter Relay 37.4 Seconds
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Understanding the Team Dimensions Model
• The Team Dimensions Process
• Dealing with Our Differences

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The Creator
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The Advancer
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The Refiner
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The Executor
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• Understand, respect, appreciate, and value the
  contributions of each member on the work team.

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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Understanding the Team Dimensions Model
• The Team Dimensions Process
• Dealing with Our Differences
• Together is Better

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A Balanced Team
Advancers move things forward.

• Creators develop new concepts.

Flexers can monitor the process and step in to
fill gaps on the team.
Refiners examine details.
Executors follow through on implementation.
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Together, Were Better!
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Seminar Agenda

• Introduction
• The Innovation Dilemma
• Understanding the Team Dimensions Model
• The Team Dimensions Process
• Dealing with Our Differences
• Together is Better
• Wrap-up

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Seminar Highlights

• We all have natural strengths that enable us to
  perform certain roles comfortably.
• Our individual tendencies toward change make us
  less effective alone than when we are part of a
  team.
• We need to balance our strengths as team members.

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Seminar Highlights

• The Team Dimensions Profile helps us identify our
  most natural approach or our most comfortable
  role on a team.

• We can use the Team Dimensions Profile to
  understand how to interact successfully with team
  members with different patterns.
• Being aware of the P.E.P. Cycle can help us
  understand the team process better.

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Seminar Highlights

• The Z process identifies a model of role
  interactions that demonstrate how each team
  members strengths can be used most effectively.

• We need to understand, respect, appreciate, and
  value the contributions of all team members.

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Thank You for attending the Welcome to the Team
Innovation Seminar