Assignment

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Assignment 2

• ENGR 111
• Due
• SUBMIT AS A TEAM ASSIGNMENT
• Prepare a document with 1) Code of Cooperation,
  2) Keirsey data for each member of your team
  (table preferred)
• 3) action plan, and 4) team schedule

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Assignment 2 (cont.)

• Your document should be
• - typed in Word
• - 1-1/2 line spacing
• - 12 point font
• Order of assignment cover sheet, Code of
  Cooperation, action plan, and Keirsey character
  results for each person in the team and team
  schedule.
• STAPLE ALL THIS TOGETHER.

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Assignment 2 (Cover Sheet)

• Name(s)
• Team No.
• ENGR 111 (XXX)
• Date
• Assignment No.
• If team assignment all members working on
  assignment PLUS SIGNATURES required.

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Assignment 2 (Code of Cooperation)

• Details to be discussed in today's class.

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Assignment 2 (ACTION PLAN)

• Read about each character type and share with
  each other the results of the character sorter
• Discuss the potential strengths and weaknesses of
  the team (based on temperament of your team
  members)
• Develop a written action plan to take advantage
  of TEAM strengths AND to compensate for TEAM
  weaknesses.

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Assignment 2 (TEAM SCHEDULE)

• Also submit to me a (ONE) team schedule
  containing
• - times each team member is in class
• - times of other regular commitments for
• each team member
• - a prioritized list of agreeable team
• meeting times
• Schedule should be a table (Word or Excel)

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Class 1.2

• Teams

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Exercise
Individually please take 2 minutes to provide a
written answer the following question

• Why do we study Teams in this course?

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Exercise (continued)
AS A TEAM please take 4 minutes to provide a
written response to the following

• Combine everyone's Why Teams list to form a new
  one. You must add at least one item to the
  individual answers.

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What is a Team Anyway?
TEAM (tem) n, 1.a. Two or more draft animals
harnessed to a vehicle or farm implement. b. A
vehicle along with the animal or animals
harnessed to it. 2. A group of animals exhibited
or performing together . 3. A group of players
on the same side in a game. 4. Any group
organized to work together.
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What is a Team Anyway?

• A team is a small group of people with
  complementary skills who are committed to a
  common purpose, performance goals, and approach
  for which they hold themselves mutually
  accountable.

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Why Teams?

• Working in groups enhances activities in
  Active/Collaborative Learning
• Team skills are valued by industry
• real engineers work in teams

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Common Team Problems(Students Perspective)

• One of my teammates never comes to class.
• One of my teammates never participates
• No one comes to our meeting prepared to work
• One of my team members is very rude
• Most of my teammates just want to rush to
  accomplishment.

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Five Issues to be Consideredin Team Building

• Interdependence - This is the issue of how each
  member's outcomes are determined, at least in
  part, by the actions of the other members.
  Functioning independently of one another, or
  competing with your teammates may lead to sub
  optimal outcomes for both you and the entire team

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Five Issues to be Consideredin Team Building

• Goal Specification - It is very important for
  team members to have common goals for team
  achievement, as well as to communicate clearly
  individual goals that you may have.

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Five Issues to be Consideredin Team Building

• Cohesiveness - This term refers to the
  attractiveness of team membership. Teams are
  cohesive to the extent that membership in them is
  positively valued, that is, members are drawn
  toward the team. Patterns of interpersonal
  attraction within a team are a very prominent
  concern. Task cohesiveness refers to the way in
  which skills and abilities of the team members
  mesh to allow effective performance.

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Five Issues to be Consideredin Team Building

• Roles and Norms - All teams need to develop a set
  of roles and norms over time.
• Roles - For a student team, the role structure
  will enable the team to cope more effectively
  with the requirements of a given task. The roles
  may be rotated so that all team members
  experience, and learn from, the various positions
  held. It is extremely important that the roles
  are understood and accepted by team members.

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Five Issues to be Consideredin Team Building

• Norms - For a student team, norms are the rules
  governing the behavior of team members, and
  include the rewards for behaving in accord with
  normative requirements, as well as the sanctions
  for norm violations. It is not uncommon for a set
  of norms to develop between team members which
  are never actively discussed. However, it is
  always better to have interaction rules appear in
  the form of a written document, such as in a Code
  of Cooperation (more about this later).

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Five Issues to be Consideredin Team Building

• Communication - Effective interpersonal
  communication is vital to the smooth functioning
  of any task team. It is also important for a team
  to develop an effective communication network
  who communicates to whom is there anybody "out
  of the loop?" Norms will develop governing
  communication. Do those norms encourage everyone
  to participate, or do they allow one or two
  dominant members to claim all the "air time?"

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Team Composition and Roles
KEY TEAM ROLES INCLUDE Meeting Coordinator,
Recorder, Timekeeper, Encourager/ gatekeeper,
Devils Advocate. Roles should rotate among
team members.
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Exercise

• As an INDIVIDUAL take 5 minutes to
• Complete the first column of the Space Survival
  Worksheet
• As a TEAM take 8 minutes to
• Reach a consensus ranking of the items for the
  Space Survival Worksheet

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Exercise

• As an INDIVIDUAL take 3 minutes to
• write down the Expert Ranking (Step 3) and
  compute your INDIVIDUAL SCORE (Step 4) and your
  TEAM SCORE (Step 5)
• As a TEAM take 5 minutes to
• compare the INDIVIDUAL SCORES with the TEAM
  scores

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Exercise

• Have teams go to the board and have them place
  their TEAM score next to their TEAM NUMBER.
• Discuss range of scores, any exceptionally low or
  high scores, etc.

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Important Team Roles

• Meeting Coordinator - Coordinates and prepares
  the agenda (i.e, what needs to be accomplished,
  establishes a process, etc.) coordinates time,
  date and place of meetings ensures all necessary
  resources are available for the meetings keeper
  of the Code of Cooperation (to be discussed)
  monitors the decision making process coordinates
  the process check. However, this person IS NOT
  THE BOSS.

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Important Team Roles (continued)

• Recorder - the recorder is the person responsible
  for doing the writing of the team whenever group
  work is being done. This should maximum
  participation by the rest of the team, since no
  one else needs to worry about it. If required,
  the recorder also ensures that the process(es)
  being used by the team is (are) documented and/or
  prepares an ACTION LIST to keep a record of
  assigned actions. In addition, the recorder makes
  sure that copies of their work are provided to
  the rest of the team.

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Important Team Roles (continued)

• Time Keeper - the time keeper has the
  responsibility of keeping tract of time, as well
  as keeping the team moving so that they can
  finish the task at hand.

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Important Team Roles (continued)

• Encourager/ Gatekeeper - the encourager/gatekeeper
  has the task of giving encouragement to all the
  other team members. The person also has the
  responsibility of maintaining a balanced level of
  participation for all the members. They will
  encourage the silent members and try to hold back
  the verbose, dominate members.

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Important Team Roles (continued)

• Devils Advocate - the devils advocate takes a
  position opposite to that held by the team to
  ensure that all sides of an issue are considered.
  This responsibility should be undertaken by all
  team members.

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Team roles

• AS A TEAM use 5 minutes to prepare a written
  answer to the following
• How could you have used the team positions to
  make your Space Survival exercise have a better
  outcome?

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Five stages of Team Development

• FORMING (orientation) - Tentative interactions
  polite discourse concern over ambiguity and
  self-discourse.
• STORMING (conflict) - Criticism of ideas poor
  attendance hostility polarization and
  coalition forming.

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Five stages of Team Development (continued)

• NORMING (cohesion) - Agreement on procedures
  reduction in role ambiguity revise Code of
  Cooperation based upon current experiences and
  increased "we-feeling.
• PERFORMING (performance) - Decision making
  problem solving mutual cooperation high task
  orientation and emphasis is placed upon
  performance and production.
• ADJOURNING (dissolution)

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Effective Teamwork Includes

• The use of roles
• The development of a Code of Cooperation
• The use of the check for understanding to make
  sure everybody is on the same page
• Development of effective listening skills
• The ability to give and take effective
  constructive feedback

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Effective Teamwork Includes(continued)

• The use of agendas for planning meetings
• The use of contact before work to provide time
  for non task related discussions
• The definition of decision-making processes to be
  included in the agenda
• The use of the issue bin to provide time for
  discussion of items not in the agenda and
• The use of an ACTION LIST to keep a record of
  assigned actions

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Effective Teamwork Includes(continued)

• The use of a process check for continuous
  improvement
• A commitment from ALL the members of the team.

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Code of Cooperation
The agreed upon rules governing the behavior of
team members, as well as any appropriate rewards
and sanctions.
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Code of Cooperation
It sets a norm for acceptable behavior for each
team member and represents how the team members
will interact with one another It should be
developed, adopted, improved and/or modified by
all team members on a continuous basis It should
be easily accessible to team members.
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Exercise

• INDIVIDUALLY, based upon your experience with the
  Space Survival exercise, as well as your past
  experiences, use 2 minutes to write down the
  following
• What 2 elements would you like to see in your
  teams Code of Cooperation?

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Exercise

• AS A TEAM use 8 minutes to provide a handwritten
  document after you take the following action
• Discuss your individual Code of Cooperation
  elements and come to an agreement as to the ones
  everyone would like to include in a draft of the
  Team Code of Cooperation. Once you complete the
  above, add 3 new elements.

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