http://www.create-learning.com Created and presented to Simon Graduate School of Business Executive MBA students, University of Rochester, NY. Increasing retention of talent, completion time of projects and tasks, satisfaction with work and life; Making your organization, team, and you better and greater profit. In our time together you will learn how to; hone, utilize, and develop interpersonal and political skills that are needed for more than successful completion of Projects and Goals; Leading to an increase in your value to the team and organization.

1. Draw one.
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2. If the pig is drawn . . .
•Toward the top of the paper, you are a positive, optimistic person.
•Toward the middle of the paper, you are a realist.
•Toward the bottom of the paper, you are a pessimist and have a tendency to be
negative.
•Facing left, you are traditional, friendly, and good at remembering dates,
including birthdays.
•Facing forward (or angled forward), you are direct, enjoy playing "the devil‘s
advocate,“ and neither fear nor avoid discussions.
•Facing right, you are innovative and active but do not have a strong sense of
family, and you are not good at remembering dates.
•With many details, you are analytical, cautious, and distrustful.
•With few details, you are emotional and naive, care little for details, and are a
risk-taker.
•With four legs showing, you are secure and stubborn, and you stick to your
ideals.
•With less than four legs, you are insecure or are going through a period of
major change.
•With large ears, you are a good listener. The larger the ears, the better listener
you are.
•With a long tail, you have a good sex life. The longer the tail, the better it is.
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4. Detailed Data Discovery
Within the next 15 minutes your objective
is to;
o Introduce self to team
o Accumulate team data you may choose any area or multiple
areas to tabulate and illustrate team data
o Compile and translate data into information
your team will present to others
o Develop a consensus of 1 team goal for our
time together
o Add 1 more ground rule, if necessary
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5. Listen
Instill,
Internalize, Experience
Institutionalize
Analyze
Reflect the
Action
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6. When the going gets tough.
The tough get going!
Default to their
highest level of training.
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7. Hard Skill Soft Skill
Write down 5 soft skills you possess, and 5
hard skills you possess, do it fast and don’t let
anyone else see what you are writing.
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8. ?
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9. List 5 soft skills
that are most
beneficial.
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10. List 5 hard skills
that are most
List5 hard skills
beneficial.
that are most beneficial.
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13. Groups and Teams
How are the knives (hard skills)
& marshmallows (soft skills)
before construction like a group,
and the same knives (hard skills)
& marshmallows (soft skills)
after construction like a team?
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16. Individually and Cooperatively
What were the differences between
working alone on the first round
and
working together on this second
round?
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19. Small team and Large team
In what ways does team size
affect performance and
interactions?
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22. Static team and Dynamic team
What were some of the key factors that
allowed you to complete each task?
How did your role(s) change as more people
were added to the task?
Which proved to be the most challenging –
Hard Skills (building and technical
knowledge, etc…) or Soft Skills (inter and
intra personal communications, etc…)?
What from this can be applied to your team
& you? How? When?
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23. Listen
Instill,
Internalize, Experience
Institutionalize
Analyze
Reflect the
Action
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24. Great
team dynamics
include ?
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25. Great team dynamics include – which if any apply
to your team effort;
oIdentify a leader
oEstablish roles & responsibilities + discuss what each person ‘brings to
the table’
oEstablish a set of goals & objectives
oEstablish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting
oEstablish a method to determine how they will reach agreement
oEstablish ground rules for their meetings
oProper & timely use of quality tools
oMaladaptive behaviors are properly dealt with immediately and have
consequences
oAbility to get started on task/project quickly
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26. Commitment Goal
Clarification
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31. Team
Development
&
Leadership
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33. Action
Centered
Leadership
achieving the task
building & maintaining the team
developing the individual
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34. How does the Adair Action
Centered Leadership model
apply to the Team
Performance Model?
Examples. Stories.
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36. Conversations & Team Norms
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37. Strength Envelopes
Purpose:
To create a verbal self-portrait
that incorporates your
strengths (as perceived by
your colleagues).
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38. morale
Shows itself
As a state of mind
Radiating confidence
In people
where each member
Feels sure of his own niche,
Stands on his own abilities
And works out his own solutions
- Knowing he is
Part of a team
where there exists
A sharing of ideas
A freedom to plan
A sureness of worth,
And a knowledge
That help is available
For the asking
to the end that
People grow and mature
Warmed by a friendly climate
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michael cardus is create-learning
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39. Credits:
Pig personality ‐ http://www.davidnewsum.co.uk/Newsletters/Pig_personality.pdf
Photo slide 5 ‐ ansik
Photo slide 6‐ i dont make art anymore
Photo slide 7‐ jronaldlee
Photo slide 24 – CarbonNYC
Photo slide 25 ‐ Bascom Hogue
Photos slide 26 ‐ Pink Sherbet Photography
Photo slide 29 – Clark Dever
Photo slide 34 ‐ takomabibelot
Photo slide 35 – normanack
Photo slide 37 ‐ Lee Nachtigal
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