Michael McNees

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Super Teams!

• Michael McNees
• Tara Shafer
• Amy Kinnick
• Erik Boardman
• Brian Winterton
• Kevin Cho
• Tony Trieu

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Superteams

• Superteams Are
• High Performance teams that achieve
  extraordinary results
• Superteams Also
• weave together a rich fabric of competencies,
  experience, attitudes, and values which create a
  tightly woven intergraded cloth suitable for many
  purposes.
• -Hastings, Bixby, and Chaudhry-Lawton (1987)

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The Superteam Model

• Transactional Processes
• Success Driven
• Committed to Quality
• Leader-Valuing
• People-Valuing and Cooperative
• Task Processes
• Vision-Driven and Goal-Oriented
• Analytical, Tenacious, Inventive
• Creative and Innovative
• System Relationships
• Committed
• Mutually Influential with their Organization

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Now It's Time
For
Some Fun!
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Egg Drop Experiment

• Equipment
• Straws, Tape, and an Egg
• Time
• 5 minutes
• Procedure
• Get together in your class groups for the
  activity
• It will be a competition between the class groups
• The goal is to build a single egg package with
  the supplies given.
• The egg should be able to sustain a drop from
  five feet.

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Ready?
Set,
Go!
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230
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200
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100
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Times Up!!!
Now let's try
the Drop
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Egg Drop Experiment
And Super Teams

• Encourages creative use of resources
• Fun, interaction, and innovation extraordinaire
• Opens lines of communication between group
  members
• Exploration of team dynamics including idea
  generation, strategic planning and
  decision-making
• This will give the group experience working
  together so when it is crunch time, teams can
  work efficient and effective.
• The success of the company depends on the success
  of the people within the organization
• People depend on a well structured and
  motivational environment in which to excel
• This experiment will help you achieve business
  objectives in a short period of time with the
  greatest efficiency and long term benefits
• Teams will be able to maximize performance, build
  support for one another, value others work
  styles, finding positive solutions to teamwork
  blocks, and facilitating the personal development
  of each individual of the team

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Southwest Airlines

• Fritz Petree, Senior Manager of Career
  Development Services says Our goal is to take
  care of employees by offering them the best
  possible resources and benefits so they can
  better serve our customers."
• Southwest uses the PLMS to train employees from
  new hires to senior leadership.
• PLMS has made delivery and tracking of
  Southwest's employee training and development
  efforts more efficient and user-friendly

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Pathlore Learning Management System

• Budget tracking, tracking of coaching sessions
  and demographics, individual employee management,
  and the automation of follow-up tasks all came
  from Pathlore Learning Management System
• Southwest Airlines plans to fully leverage
  Pathlore LMS's flexibility to approach employees
  company-wide with the kinds of training that are
  right for them.

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Herb Kelleher

• Began with Rollin King in 1971
• President CEO from early 1982 to June 2001
• Beginning troubles lead to a positive outcome
• Learned values from mother
• Zany unconventional tactics encouraged
• Employees appreciate him

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Questions

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