Opportunity Identification and Decision-making

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Opportunity Identification and Decision-making

• Teams and
• Sub-arctic Survival
• A Team Development Exercise

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Creating the Team

• What is a team?
• A small group with distinct identity
• Work together in coordinated/supported way
• Use complementary skills to achieve goal

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What is Teamwork?

• Attitude
• Interdependence
• Cooperation
• Actions
• Demonstrate understanding of the whole process
• Demonstrate understanding of individual/joint
  roles
• Communicate

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Basics Group vs. Team

• Group
• Common goal
• Accountable to owner
• Frequent conflict
• Single leader
• Goals may/may not be accomplished

• Team
• Committed to goals
• Mutually accountable
• Trust/collaboration
• Share leadership
• Synergy 225

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Why Are Teams Necessary?

• Specialization of roles based on strengths
• Global competition requires faster response to
  changes
• Excelling in the Information Age

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Types of Teams

• Work
• Task
• Management

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Team Size

• Optimum 5-7
• Small enough for relationships, management
• Large enough for perspective

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Team Roles and Skills

• Sponsor
• Facilitator
• Leader
• Member

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Roles and Skills Sponsor

• Remove barriers
• Sanction training
• Ensure implementation
• Monitor performance
• Provide support, recognition, reward

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Roles and Skills Facilitator(s)

• Team experts/resource
• Not official team members
• Assist team leader
• Keep team on target
• Provide stability
• Neutral, empathetic

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Roles and Skills Leader

• Prepares and calls meetings
• Sets location and agenda
• Participates as a team member
• Record-keeper
• Removes roadblocks
• Team representative and liaison

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Roles and Skills Member

• Expert in his (or her) activity/field
• Does the work
• Shares personal experience/knowledge
• Standardizes processes
• Looks for ways to improve
• Collaborates

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Keys to Team Success

• Charter The what and why of the tasks
• Expectations of the stakeholders
• Confidentiality/non-attribution
• Values

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Stages of High-Performing Team Development

• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
• High-performing teams minimize time spent in
  the first three stages.

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Questions?
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Part 1

• Today you will be introduced to a real-life
  situation.
• You will be given all of the information
  regarding the situation as it occurred
• You will then be challenged , first individually,
  and then as a team, to help your team survive

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The Challenge

• Video clip

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The Challenge

• The Challenge details
• Open the booklet Subarctic Survival Situation
  participants booklet
• Read the first 2 inside pages Map of Crash Site,
  and The Subarctic Situation
• When you are finished reading, please stand up

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The Challenge

• Turn to the page The Challenge
• Read through the instructions
• AS INDIVIDUALS, Complete Step 1 on the next page.
  You will have 15 minutes to complete the
  assignment

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The Challenge

• Part 2 The Team challenge
• Read the instructions to Part 2
• As a team, discuss your individual answers, then
  begin to write in the teams Consensus answers
• Consensus means that when you have 2 or more
  opinions, you agree to come to one answer. You
  may not like the teams answer, but you can live
  with it

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The Challenge

• Part 2, continued
• If you dont finish in class, you may take up to
  the difference between 45 minutes total, and the
  amount of time used in class. PLEASE DONT EXCEED
  THE TOTAL TIME combined in class and in evening
  assignment