Navigating Through Choppy Waters Building Effective SWPBS Teams

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Navigating Through Choppy Waters-Building
Effective SW-PBS Teams

• Debora Lintner
• Southeast RPDC
• dlintner_at_semo.edu

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Housekeeping

• Take care of personal needs
• Silence cell phones
• Chimes Signal
• Ask questions
• Have fun!

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Todays Objectives

• What makes a great team?
• What are the stages of developing teams?
• What are the top 5 dysfunctions of a team?
• What can your team do to become more effective?

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Great Teams

• Round Rally-On sticky notes, list traits of great
  teams.
• At your table, prioritize this list and come up
  with top 3 traits.
• Share out.

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High Performing Teams

• Overall team purpose (purpose statement)
• Mutual accountability (team norms/action plan)
• Collective work products (action plan artifacts)
• Shared leadership roles (roles and
  responsibilities)
• High cohesiveness (trust)
• Collaboration in deciding task assignments and
  procedures (trust/action plan)
• Collective assessment of own success
• (DATA surveys, SET, staff input)
• (Newstrom Scannell)

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High Performance Teams

• Dont happen overnight
• Team building required
• Facilitator needed

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Team Success

• Supportive Environment
• Time for meeting
• Faith in ability to succeed
• Necessary Skills
• Coaches/ Team trainings
• Common goal
• Team Recognition
• Valued items
• Perceived as possible to earn
• Administered promptly
• Regular Opportunities to Interact and Learn from
  Interaction (team building activities)

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Improving Team Performance

• Have More Effective Meetings
• Understand Teams Developmental Stages

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Have More Effective Meetings

• Prepare agenda
• Clarify objective
• Solicit minority views
• Legitimize questions and critical thought
• Test support for tentative decision
• Identify specific action plans

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Understand Teams Developmental Stages

• Forming-Team members get to know one another and
  turn attention to tasks.
• Storming-Team members jockey for positions of
  control and argue about groups directions.
  Tensions arise.
• Norming-Team begins to move together. Group
  norms evolve to guide individual behavior and
  cooperation blossoms.
• Performing-Team matures and learns how to handle
  complex situations.

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Forming Stage of Teams(Team members get to
know one another and turn attention to tasks.)

• Whats in your pocket?
• Find something in your pocket/purse that
  describes your role in education.
• Be ready to introduce yourself and share that
  item.
• Provides
• Way to introduce members to each other
• Build team spirit
• Establish self-disclosure as a team norm

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Storming Stage of Teams(Team members jockey
for positions of control and argue about groups
directions. Tensions arise.)

• Walk the Line
• Get group in single line
• Call out ideas
• If the idea pertains to you, step forward
• Compass Points-used in PLCs
• Kolbe (web-based)
• Provides
• Appreciation for similarities and differences of
  team members
• Increases team spirit

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Norming Stage of Teams(Team begins to move
together. Group norms evolve to guide individual
behavior and cooperation blossoms.)

• Fish Story
• Peak Performance-
• Discuss excellence or quality service.
• Tell members to think of their peak performance
  experiences and share.
• Discuss common themes.
• How do various people view peak performance?
• What can members do to facilitate a peak
  performance experience?
• Nurture your team.

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Performing Stage of Teams(Team matures and
learns how to handle complex situations.)

• Celebrate successes!
• Continue to use problem solving process.
• Continue to nurture team.
• Include new members.
• Take care of issues when re-visiting previous
  stages.

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Teambuilding

• Helps team leader make a point
• Helps build team morale
• Helps members learn to trust each other
• Helps team members become more flexible and
  adaptive
• Reinforces appropriate member behaviors

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Teambuilding

• Relieves boredom
• Lifts team spirit
• Increases team morale
• Re-energizes team members

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The Choppy Waters of your SW-PBS Team

• Think-Pair-Share
• In what stage is your SW-PBS team?
• Forming?
• Storming?
• Norming?
• Performing?
• (NSDC Tools for Schools, Nov./Dec. 2005)
• What problem(s) is your team facing?
• Brainstorm with shoulder partner possible
  solutions to the Choppy Waters of your team.

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Five Dysfunctions of a TeamPatrick Lencioni

• Absence of trust
• Fear of conflict
• Lack of commitment
• Avoidance of accountability
• Inattention to results

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Compare/Contrast

• Compare your list of team problems with the Five
  Dysfunctions
• Discuss similarities and differences

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The Foundation
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Dysfunction Evidence

• Absence of trust
  Invulnerability
• Members of a team that lack trust act
• Members of a team that trust each other..

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Activity

• Brag and share
• Top three
• High school activities
• Greatest challenge as a child
• Why I became a teacher

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Dysfunction Evidence

• Fear of Conflict Artificial
  harmony
• List 10 potential conflicts in a collaborative
  meeting
• Teams that fear conflict
• Team that engage in conflict..

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Dysfunction Evidence

• Lack of commitment Ambiguity
• A team that fails to commit..
• A team that commits..

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Dysfunction Evidence

• Avoidance of accountability Low standards
• A team that avoids accountability..
• A team that hold each member accountable.

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Dysfunction Evidence

• Inattention to results Status and ego
• A team that is not focused on results.
• A team that is focused on results..

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5 Corners

• Your SW-PBS team possesses which of these
  dysfunctions?
• Absence of Trust
• Fear of Conflict
• Lack of Commitment
• Avoidance of Accountability
• Inattention to Results
• Which dysfunctions are not at the level you need
  for optimum performance as a team?
• Describe a plan to develop or improve these
  missing traits.

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Gallery Walk

• Walk around the room and gather ideas to
  strengthen your team,
• When finished, please sit down.
• Share out big ideas.

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References

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
• The Big Book of Team Building Games, John
  Newstrom Edward Scannell

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Thank you for your attention and participation
today. May your SW-PBS team have smooth
sailing!Have a great conference!