Team Building

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Team Building
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Mingle

• Think about a team that youve been a part of -
  either from your personal or professional life.
• In your experience, whats been the best thing
  about working in a team?
• Whats been the most challenging?

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Learning Objectives

• Describe the importance of effectively
  functioning teams as an essential element to
  successful public health programs.
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• Describe how to create more effective working
  relationships among team members.
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• Create positive and productive team agreements
  and norms.
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• Select specific skills and tools when creating
  alignment within diverse teams.
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• Choose effective responses to resolve common
  problem behaviors present in teams

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Definitions

• A team can be defined as two or more people
  coming together to accomplish a specific task.
• Examples
• Project teams
• Coalitions
• Management teams

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Opportunities - Teams

• Leverage diversity
• Harness individual knowledge/wisdom
• Increase participation
• Gain organizational buy-in
• Generate more creative responses/solutions
• Can be more productive

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Common Team Challenges

• Dont measure up to potential
• Problem behaviors
• Lack of clarity/shared accountability for goals
• Ineffective decision making
• Poor implementation and follow through
• Lack empowerment and organizational support

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Team StrengthsSource Team Diagnostic
International

• Relationships
• Camaraderie
• Communication
• Constructive Interaction
• Optimism
• Respect
• Trust
• Values Diversity

• Results
• Accountability
• Alignment
• Decision Making
• Goals Strategies
• Proactive
• Resources
• Team Leadership

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Methods for Building Effective Teams

• Team assessment
• Team design
• Creating alignment
• Working with problem behaviors

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Team Assessment and Design

• What might you want to assess about a team? How
  might you assess an existing or new team?
• What might you want to know in order to design
  positive and productive working relationships
  within a team?
• What would you want to explicitly design with a
  team?

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Assessment What?

• Team structure, members, history
• Results strengths accountability, alignment,
  decision making, goals and strategies, ability to
  be proactive, resources, team leadership
• Relationships strengths camaraderie,
  communication, constructive interaction,
  optimism, respect, trust, values diversity

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Assessment How?

• Interviews
• Surveys
• Review of existing team materials (agendas,
  minutes, ground rules, products)
• Observation

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Potential Questions

• Strengths/challenges of team
• Priorities/goals of team
• Roles/responsibilities
• Ground rules
• Decision making process
• Meeting structure, minutes, agenda
• Leadership
• Resources
• Means of rewarding achievement/success
• How team functions under stress
• Vision of team
• What team is tolerating

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Design/Planning

• Priorities/goals/vision of team
• Team agreements/ground rules
• Roles/responsibilities/leadership
• Decision making process/accountability

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Antidotes for Common Team Problem Behaviors

• Notice your own patterns.
• Call behaviors when you see them.
• Look for the request behind the complaint.
• Dont make it/take it personally.
• Build positivity within the team.