Teambuilding

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Teambuilding

• Lion/Lioness Jo Marson
• Lions Midwinter Conference
• January 24, 2004

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Overview

• Interaction Management Key Principles
• Teambuilding Exercise
• Self-Assessment
• Development Dimensions International,
  Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

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Key Principles

• Help in conducting effect discussions
• Open lines of communication
• Help gain the cooperation and commitment of
  others

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Key Principles

• If you dont know where youre going, youre
  liable to end up somewhere else.
• Map Out Discussions
• Prevent/Overcome Barriers
• Build Relationships
• Provide Structure

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Key Principles

• Maintain or enhance self-esteem
• Be specific
• Be sincere
• Listen and respond with empathy
• Respond to feelings and content
• Ask for help in solving the problem
• Seek and develop ideas
• Provide support without removing responsibility

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Key Principle 1 Maintain or enhance self-esteem

• Be specific and sincere
• Maintain vs. Enhance
• Maintaining Dont do or say anything to damage
  persons self-worth
• Enhancing Build self-esteem through praise,
  reinforcement, or support
• Benefits
• Opens doors of communication
• Increases motivation and cooperation

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Key Principle 1 Exercise

• Describe a difficult situation in which it would
  be appropriate to maintain or enhance self-esteem
• Write several KP 1 statements that would be
  appropriate to use in this type of situation.
• Share one KP 1 statement with one other member of
  your group

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Key Principle 2 Listen and Respond with Empathy

• Respond to Feelings and Content
• Show You Understand
• Label Feelings
• Benefits
• Reduces tension or defensiveness
• Encourages two-way communication
• Enhances self-esteem

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Key Principle 2 Exercise

• Describe a difficult situation that will require
  empathy
• Person (position, not name)
• Situation/Statement (by this person)
• Your response (include content and feelings)
• Share KP 2 situation with one other member of
  your group

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Key Principle 3 Ask for help in Solving the
Problem

• Seek and Develop Ideas
• Use open-ended questions (What? How?...)
• Provide Support Without Removing Responsibility
• Meet Resistance Positively
• Benefits
• Gain commitment
• Enhance self-esteem

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Key Principle 3 Exercise

• Describe a situation in which it would be
  beneficial to ask for help
• What would you say to ask for help?
• What would you say if the ideas were
  inappropriate or not usable?
• What would you say to encourage the person to
  take responsibility for action?
• Share KP 3 situation with one other member of
  your group

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Teambuilding Exercise

• Bridge Building
• Supplies 4 paper cups, 4 paper plates, 3 sheets
  of freezer paper, tape and ruler
• Task Build bridge that is 10 inches high and 18
  inches long that can withstand rolling a golf
  ball across it
• Time 20 minutes

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Teambuilding Exercise

• Bridge Building Debriefing
• Individually, complete team self-assessment.
• Meet with your team. Appoint a recorder and
  spokesperson. Have recorder summarize teams
  comments as you answer the following questions.
• Discuss each members self-assessment results and
  the meaning of these results in completing the
  bridge.
• Was your group a group or a team? Explain.
• Did anyone play a leadership role? Explain.
• What made building the bridge as a team/group,
  rather than as an individual, more difficult?
• In what ways did the team/group make the project
  easier?