1. HOW TO BUILD A
GREAT TEAM
Nikola Vaptsarov Vocational School Radomir, Bulgaria

2. Team building
is a process that takes place over time.
•The start of the team building process
is a group of people, three or more,
and a leader.
•The end of the process is
a high performing team, motivated to perform better
and gains immense satisfaction from their
shared achievements.

3. The research is based on a model from nature.
Seven animals have been included into it.
1 TIGERS TIGERS
TIGERS
2 EAGLES
3 BEARS
4 WOLVES
5 CATS
6 DOGS
7 DUCKS

4. What does our poll show?
Great team-builders
32.53%
31.33%
13.25%
3.61%
7.23% 10.84%
Bears Eagles Tigers Ducks Wolves Dogs

5. Eagles Cats
They are good role models for soaring tThe most individual animals that like
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to individual heights, but they are poor freedom, calmness and are ego-
team players. They are known to be centered.
territorial, pretty hostile toward one The worst team players.
another and constantly stealing prey
from one another.
In the human being world the new
recruits steal sales and clients from
each other, they are in constant
struggle.

6. Bears and Tigers Wolves
They are known to eat their young. tThese animals are known to
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In the human being world these are constantly have ego fights for
the new guys and girls on the team dominance.
who are victims of the old. In the human being world these are
That doesn’t make for good team the people who always follow their ego
building! and want to rule over others- definitely
not good for trust and the morale of a
team.

7. Dogs Ducks
They are known for their loyalty but tThe animal species that we have to
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never take initiatives and always wait learn from and emulate in working
to be told what to do. together as a team are ducks.
In the human being world these are They work together to accomplish
the people who are loyal only to the feats that seem unimaginable and
leader but if the leader is not a true impossible for most any other animal.
leader, the team is doomed. They fly distances of hundreds even
thousands of miles, a distance almost
no other animal can travel and it is
possible only because they do it as a
team.

8. Ducks fly in formation. As each duck
1 flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the
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bird following and that is perpetuated
throughout their V formation
Each duck takes its turn leading the
2 flock in flight. When the lead duck
gets tired, it fades from the front
and is enveloped back into the fold
of the flock and naturally another
bird takes the lead.

9. • Amazing feats are created when the
collective whole becomes greater than the
sum of the individual parts. That occurs
when teamwork is working well.
• So in business, people who share a common
direction and sense of community can get where
they are going quicker and easier when they
travel on the thrust of one another.

10. • The important team lesson : No one
member of the team can or should be
taking the headwind all the time. Just like
a duck, he or she has to have the humility
and the ego strength to rotate to the back
of the formation so another duck can take
the lead position to keep the flock moving
at top speed.

11. The two most important ingredients for
building high-performing teams.
Always2give what you want . If you want trust
TRUST from your team, give trust first. Things that
foster trust are transparency, honesty,
vulnerability and complete integrity.
Feeling significant is as basic as food. This
APPRECIATION. begins at birth and never goes away. The
need for significance at work is a
manifestation of our inborn hunger for
meaning in our lives.

12. How to demonstrate trust to your team?
1 Open the Kimono: Open 3 tExpose Your Chest: As 5 Be Worthy: To be trusted
up your books. Share the Waldo Waldman teaches you first must be
good, the bad and the ugly about leadership, “expose trustworthy. Demonstrate
of your financial statements. your chest to daggers,” you are by doing what you
Become far more meaning, show your say you will do and being
transparent with how vulnerability first. Be more where you say you will be
information is shared and open and honest in the precisely when you say you
communicated. disclosure of your own will be there. Deliver on
fears, failures and your promises and be the
2 shortcomings. example you want everyone
Marionette No More: Drop else to follow. Simple, easy
the puppet strings. Give No gossips, negative talk, and pretty straightforward,
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others more responsibility the “meeting after the right?
and decision-making power meeting” and separate
without micromanagement alliances or factions within
and approvals. Train, but the team. First, never do
then trust them. Let them such things yourself.
lead. Second, stop others
whenever they do them .

13. Good Luck Team - Builders!
There you have it—
the formula for
Trust building fantastically
successful teams. Do
just 20 percent of
what we talked about
here and you will
TEAM greatly improve the
performance of your
team. Diligently work
on all of it and you
and your team will be
Appreciation unstoppable in your
industry. Go for
unstoppable!

14. THANK YOU!
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