TEAMBUILDING

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TEAMBUILDING

• PROMOTING UNITY WITHIN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Debbie Baker
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My Confession

• At times I find that I have cared more for
• 1. Production and the needs of the institution
• Than for people and the relationship we have
  with them
• 2. Policies of the institution
• Than for people and the relationship we have
  with them
• 3. Pride and power
• Than for people and the relationship we have
  with them

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My realization

• I have not always been the kind of leader I
  should be
• I recognize my need of a deeper knowledge of the
  ways and means that Jesus used in dealing with
  people
• I recognize my need of deeper study of Gods word
  and the principles outlined there

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My Journey

• To be more like Jesus in my dealings with
  employees
• To study scripture more carefully in regard to
  the principles we will find there
• To follow the principles I find

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Scott Jeffrey asks

• So why should you go through the labor of
  building an effective team?
• It is a legitimate question when we often find
  ourselves fighting employees with healthy egos,
  those motivated by self-gratification or not
  motivated at all.
• www.scottjeffrey.com

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Reason 1

• Effective teams achieve better results
• Fully functional teams drive toward compelling
  objectives and make them happen. Put simply,
  effective teams provide your organization with
  the ultimate competitive advantage. (This is
  reason enough!)

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John 1723

• 23 I in them and you in me. May they be brought
  to complete unity to let the world know that you
  sent me and have loved them even as you have
  loved me.

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Reason 2

• Effective teams create a more enjoyable
  workplace
• We spend a large percentage of our lives at work.
  A more pleasurable vocation leads to a more
  enjoyable life. Executives on high-functioning
  teams enjoy working with and uplifting each
  other.

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Ps. 133

• 1 How good and pleasant it is when brothers live
  together in unity! 2 It is like precious oil
  poured on the head, running down on the beard,
  running down on Aaron's beard, down upon the
  collar of his robes. 3 It is as if the dew of
  Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the
  LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.

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Reason 3

• Effective teams conduct engaging and productive
  meetings, but
• If you had to identify, in one word, the reason
  why the human race has not achieved, and never
  will achieve, its full potential, that word would
  be "meetings.
• Dave Barry

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90 of a project is planning the other 10 is
implementation of that plan

• Meetings demand the majority of the executives
  time, but meetings are often a waste of time.
  Able to engage in spirited dialogue without a
  fear of conflict, effective teams creatively move
  toward a desired goal, leading to more productive
  meetings.

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Reason 4

• Effective teams increase morale An effective
  team has many of the qualities of a harmonious
  family. With the genuine drive to support one
  another, effective teams stick together even in
  difficult times (both personal challenges and
  down economies).

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Romans 155

• 5 May the God who gives endurance and
  encouragement give you a spirit of unity among
  yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, 6 so that
  with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God
  and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Reason 5

• Effective teams are more creative Curtailing a
  lot of the bureaucratic nonsense that impedes
  many major corporations (think posturing and
  office politics), effective teams are more likely
  to innovate and arrive at more creative solution
  to industry problems.

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Reason 6

• Effective teams facilitate greater job security
• As each team member works toward a shared vision,
  each executive strives to give his or her best
  work. When the team wins, the business wins.

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Reason 7

• Effective teams improve personal performance
• In an open and honest environment, team members
  playfully challenge and keep each other
  accountable. Effective teams inspire the best in
  each of us. Increased performance is its own
  reward but also tends to provide financial
  benefits in the future.

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Recognizing dysfunction
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• If any one of these levels are allowed to
  flourish, the entire team is in jeopardy.
• Looking these points a different way you might
  say that a well functioning team, Trusts one
  another, engage in unfiltered conflict around
  ideas, they commit to decisions and plans of
  action, they hold one another accountable for
  delivering against those plans, they focus on the
  achievement of collective results.
• 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

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Examples of Teambuilding

• Team building activities can be lengthy or rather
  short.
• Most effective activities take approximately 45
  minutes including a debrief period where the
  activity and subsequent insights can be fleshed
  out.

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Mission Accomplished

• Learning how each team member processes
  information, attacks a problem and shares their
  experience helps everyone accomplish more and
  find fulfillment through the journey.

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Look not on the outward

• 1 Samuel 167 But the LORD said unto Samuel,
  Look not on his countenance, or on the height of
  his stature because I have refused him for the
  LORD seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on
  the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on
  the heart.

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EPHESIANS 4

• 1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to
  live a life worthy of the calling you have
  received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle be
  patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make
  every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit
  through the bond of peace.

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• 4 There is one body and one Spiritjust as you
  were called to one hope when you were called 5
  one Lord, one faith, one baptism 6 one God and
  Father of all, who is over all and through all
  and in all.
• 7 But to each one of us grace has been given as
  Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it says
  "When he ascended on high, he led captives in his
  train and gave gifts to men." 9 (What does "he
  ascended" mean except that he also descended to
  the lower, earthly regions?

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• 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended
  higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the
  whole universe.) 11 It was he who gave some to be
  apostles, some to be prophets, some to be
  evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
  12 to prepare God's people for works of service,
  so that the body of Christ may be built up 13
  until we all reach unity in the faith and in the
  knowledge of the Son of God and become mature,
  attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of
  Christ.

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• 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back
  and forth by the waves, and blown here and there
  by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and
  craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15
  Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in
  all things grow up into him who is the Head, that
  is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body,
  joined and held together by every supporting
  ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as
  each part does its work.

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Resources

• 201 Icebreakers by Edie West
• 1001 Ways to Energize Employees
• by Bob Nelson
• 1001 Ways to Reward Employees
• by Bob Nelson
• More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy
  Managers by Brian Cole Miller
• The Team by Kim Allan Johnson
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution by the
  Harvard Business Review
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick
  Lencioni