The document describes an activity where participants are given sets of choices without context and asked to select one answer from each set. The purpose is to illustrate how unclear or misaligned goals and visions within a team can lead to frustration and incorrect decisions. Participants will feel confused making their selections. After completing the activity, the facilitator reveals the goal was to select words featured on the US flag, showing how shared context and understanding of goals can make decisions easier. The activity is meant to spark discussion around ensuring all team members understand and share the same goals and visions to eliminate frustration and make better decisions.
Exploring Majors and Careers - Key Questions to Ask YourselfKimberly Knowles
This is a guide that I developed in 2007 for a presentation on Self Motivation that I gave - it gives useful suggestions for questions to ask yourself to help narrow in a major or career choice.
Team Membership - Focus on your style to find successMike Cardus
Workshop based upon Team Dimensions Profile.
Team membership starts with "I". The more you know about yourself this "I" the more effective you can be as a team member. Once you explore and reflect upon your "I" you know what motivates you and can continue to feel autonomous and respected while producing amazing work.
The goal is to explore behaviors that you exhibit and facilitate you to be aware (mindful) of how you are acting in that moment. Therefore making you a better team member. Basically the goal is all about YOU.
“making myself an effective team member, one who is dedicated to being a team member as opposed to making myself desirable for membership within the team.”
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Statistics- Statistical Investigations Workshop 1Angela Lee
The first of two workshops I've created for children in my class about statistical investigations. This is used as a rotation activity after I have done some teaching on it first.
Exploring Majors and Careers - Key Questions to Ask YourselfKimberly Knowles
This is a guide that I developed in 2007 for a presentation on Self Motivation that I gave - it gives useful suggestions for questions to ask yourself to help narrow in a major or career choice.
Team Membership - Focus on your style to find successMike Cardus
Workshop based upon Team Dimensions Profile.
Team membership starts with "I". The more you know about yourself this "I" the more effective you can be as a team member. Once you explore and reflect upon your "I" you know what motivates you and can continue to feel autonomous and respected while producing amazing work.
The goal is to explore behaviors that you exhibit and facilitate you to be aware (mindful) of how you are acting in that moment. Therefore making you a better team member. Basically the goal is all about YOU.
“making myself an effective team member, one who is dedicated to being a team member as opposed to making myself desirable for membership within the team.”
http://www.create-learning.com
Statistics- Statistical Investigations Workshop 1Angela Lee
The first of two workshops I've created for children in my class about statistical investigations. This is used as a rotation activity after I have done some teaching on it first.
Seminar 7 and 8 - Complete The Flower Exercise and Choose Your Own Creative A...Fahri Karakas
This is the last set of seminars before individual portfolio submission in the first half of the module 'Employability, Creativity, and Personal Development'.
We do two exercises in this seminar.
For Seminar 7, you will complete the Flower Exercise from the book 'What Color is Your Parachute' which will help you craft and design your ideal career.
For Seminar 8, you choose one activity that you wish to do. There are 6 activities to choose from:
1) Create your own personal logo.
2) Coach yourself for the upcoming 12 months.
3) Choose your role models and learn from them.
4) Create a system for tracking your job applications, firms, and positions.
5) Create a SWOT analysis of yourself in the job market and reflect on your employability.
6) Create your own Netflix show - imagine wildly.
You can try any of these activities as they will help you tremendously in designing your life and your career after graduation.
These activities will help you create a better self personally and professionally.
Enjoy!
GLS 2014: WEx Design Jam - a foundation for work with impactAnna Roberts
A hands-on workshop presented at the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference 2014. Our slides are a toolkit for building a strong start for your work.
"Do you have a promising idea or a project-in-progress? Are you wondering how to make it a success? This design jam will help you dig into your work - answering the questions that help grow ideas and games that impact. It’s an opportunity to get better at what you do, through strategizing, clarifying ideas, and integrating new perspectives. In this session, you’ll focus on what you are(and are not!) trying to create, as you refine your audience and stakeholders, vision and goals and uncover your project’s unique path to success."
Designing Your Future: Creative and Reflective Exercises for Your CareerFahri Karakas
In this presentation, I present a lot of exercises and resources to improve your employability and creativity.
Check out the resources and article links I provide below.
I am sharing all of the articles and resources below, as I think each of them will add value to your personal and professional life and improve your creativity and employability.
You will do two exercises in this workshop. You can watch the videos, read the accompanying Medium articles, and complete these activities yourself.
Flower Exercise
The first one: You will complete the Flower Exercise from the book 'What Color is Your Parachute' which will help you craft and design your ideal career.
https://medium.com/an-idea/what-does-your-dream-job-look-like-be48647edfc5?sk=c3fb82c070ac40f7c047a85fe3c3a9a6
Choose Your Own Option Exercise
The second one: You will choose one activity that you wish to do. There are 6 activities to choose from:
1) Create your own personal logo.
2) Coach yourself for the upcoming 12 months.
3) Choose your role models and learn from them.
4) Create a system for tracking your job applications, firms, and positions.
5) Create a SWOT analysis of yourself in the job market and reflect on your employability.
6) Create your own Netflix show - imagine wildly.
You can try any of these activities as they will help you tremendously in designing your life and your career after graduation. These activities will help you create a better self.
Below is the article guide:
https://medium.com/an-idea/six-personal-development-and-creativity-exercises-to-up-your-game-5fa1ce7275e7?sk=2d76b898a53d4ef732486a6b0cd3d372
In addition, I want you to focus on your asset creation journey.
Use your asset creation project to achieve your financial independence and to unleash your creativity,
I have written some articles to inspire you - check them out:
Create Your Own Creative Assets on the Internet:
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/create-your-own-creative-assets-on-the-internet-74af0e289dcd?sk=f019a56bfac1c6706032fd10f4487a74
Invest in Your Medium Content Shop:
https://2madness.com/invest-in-your-medium-content-shop-fef0cc64a393?sk=b6dc357aa52e7ff99f0b866daf5ea05b
Four Universal Principles to Create Your Content Empire:
https://medium.com/swlh/four-universal-principles-to-create-your-content-empire-1c0d7db9481e?sk=f5c94423fe81e53061b83ea639d72601
Understanding Each Other - Ladder of Inference + Yes and... ThinkingPaul Boos
This is a short workshop to help people understand thinking together better. I introduce the Ladder if Inference, some methods for helping people come to common understanding and explore the "Yes and..." thinking method for improving idea building.
SETC 2004 - Learning Styles and Student Performance in an E-Learning EnvironmentMichael Barbour
Barbour, M. K., & Cooze, M. (2004, December). Learning styles and student performance in an e-learning environment. Paper presented at the annual Southern Educational Technology Conference, Fayetteville, AR.
Decision making and planning during complexity and uncertaintyMike Cardus
Decision making and planning during complexity and uncertainty.
From a recent meeting, I facilitated on how to make progress on a complex (unknown and not-experienced before) challenge that the company was facing.
Includes the questions that each team member answered and the planning and progress steps document we completed to make sense, make creat a better understanding of the complexity.
Focusing on problems makes you an expert in what’s wrong. To become an expert in what’s right, you must be able to guide others toward progress. Join us and Mike Cardus, an organizational development expert and facilitator for our Executive Exchange program, for this interactive workshop. Find out how the solution-focused SOLVED coaching method will help you draw on the individual talents and abilities of your team members and find ways to develop a team sustainably and systematically.
You’ll learn:
1. A research-based process to coach yourself and make progress through complex challenges
2. Strategies and tools for improving the performance of any team
3. An innovative, proven approach to managing complexity and change in teams
4. A coaching model that can be applied to organizations, teams, and individuals
5. How these methods have been applied in leading organizations across the world, including banks, military, manufacturing, retail, law enforcement, non-profit, and small businesses
Complexity and Quality: Using the most appropriate problem-solving process Mike Cardus
Complexity and Quality: Using the most appropriate problem-solving process. Effective leaders understand that problem solving is not a "one-size-fits-all" process. They know that their actions depend on the situation, and they make better decisions by adapting their approach to changing circumstances.
How do you know which approach you should use in a particular situation?
Organization Development by Mike Cardus Impact StoryMike Cardus
Mike Cardus sharing with the Organization Development Network of Western New York. Learning about capacity building, developing value propositions using data, and how leadership creates the organizational structure for progress.
Presentation slides from GetSET team building. GetSET is a 2-year nonprofit capacity building process for health and human services agencies in the greater Buffalo Niagara Region of New York State.
How teams work do's and don'ts for dealing with resistance to your team projectMike Cardus
Working on teams you will deal with resistance. What To Do When Stakeholders Resist Your Project … And What Not To Do. The checklist provides guidance on how to effectively deal with resistant behavior … and what not to do.
How Teams Work Recognizing Resistance to Team WorkMike Cardus
What to Do When You’re Not Getting Cooperation.
The success of your team goal and team work depends in good part on cooperation from the people on your team and people across the larger organization.
So what do you do when you can’t get cooperation, when people resist?
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Getting buy-in on your team project and task from those who you do not directly manage can prove challenging.
Here are 5 areas to check your data against for persuasiveness.
Within work, in order to complete your tasks, you have to depend upon many people whom you do not have direct authority over to supply you with information needed to complete your work on time, in budget and quality specifications.
How Teams Work Teamwork Through Consensus or CompromisingMike Cardus
Consensus and Compromise
Many misconceptions haunt both consensus and compromise; it is not a tool in total agreement among the team, nor is it a type of voting.
Both are a decision making method where all parties involved have input on the decision to be made and whatever agreement is reached will not be sabotaged by the team.
How Teams Work team based conflict management approachesMike Cardus
Three ways to handle project team conflict, and when each works best
Following good conflict-management procedures can have a highly positive effect on your project:
- You’ll be able to reduce the disruptive effects of interpersonal conflict, making members willing to participate on the team.
- At the same time, you’ll allow the task-related conflict that comes from productive differences of opinion – differences that can help you come up with better solutions.
How Teams Work Making Team Decisions Through Consensus Mike Cardus
Team Decision Making.
Managing & working on teams the procedures being used must be known, shared and understood.
What are often seen as ‘personality conflicts’ are usually just people with unknown work procedures.
Helping teams work. Team meetings making them good enough to get work doneMike Cardus
Following good meeting management procedures can have a highly positive effect:
People will be more willing to attend meetings that run smoothly.
The team will feel a sense of accomplishment that increases commitment and willingness to do the work.
Mike Cardus' How Teams Work - Biggest Team Leader Meeting Mistake Mike Cardus
Team Leaders’ Biggest Team Meeting Mistakes
Give members the chance to get to know one another, build trust, voice expectations and goals, establish credentials, discuss desired roles, raise concerns, etc…
This approach is viewed by some as waste of time instead of a necessary step in creating high performance.
When teams have problems later, everyone gets frustrated and things come to a halt.
11. • How did you make your choices?
• What criteria was used?
• Who is accountable for the choices you
made?
• What led you towards your choices?
• Why?
• Does that ever happen at work?
• Now that you have seen the goal; what is
your reaction to your choices?
• Supply an example of how people may
operate and choose from unclear criteria
and understanding of goals?
• What causes that to happen?
• What about this activity can we use in our
current organizations and teams?
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13. Purpose: To illustrate vision and the need for everyone on the team to have the same understanding of the end goal.
Set-up: Scrap paper (blank page in workbook, notepad, etc.) and pencil/pen for each participant. Writing surface for each
participant.
Activity: Without providing any forewarning or foreshadowing, ask participants to take out a piece of paper and a writing utensil. Tell
them, "I am going to show some pairs of words or phrases. For each set, please select the correct word or phrase. There is a correct
word or phrase in each set.“ Show the power point slides.
Read each set of choices a couple of times. Answer questions by simply saying write down the correct answer. This will frustrate
some people (a good processing point that sometimes we get frustrated when we don't understand where we are going - or don't
have the complete picture).
Choices (correspond to the presentation)
Cold or blue
Up in the Air or Down on the ground
Metal or cloth
Stars or planets
Green or red
Snow or White
Stripes or Plaid
After you have finished select a couple of people and have them read their answers and tell them how many they got correct. Ask
how people felt (frustrated, confused, didn't make sense). Ask if anybody knows the answer - often times one or two people will have
figured it out. If not, show the slide of the US Flag. Now quickly run through the choices - with the whole class responding out loud.
Processing:
How easy those choices are if everyone shares the same vision.
How do we take that back to the workplace (project, team, etc.)
How it eliminates frustration and anybody who shares the vision can take more complex decisions and make the "right" choice by just
focusing on which decision aligns with the vision.
Variations:
I have used company mission and value statements as the choices. For example one choice would be actual wording from their
organizations mission or value statement and the other choice would be from a competitor or the total opposite of what their mission
or vision statement is. This variation hits home that not very many people in organizations know that their company has a mission
statement.
Originally from;
Rick Hicks, Randy Smith Training School www.create‐learning.com
http://firststepstraining.com/resources/activities/archive/activity_choices.htm