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Goals
• To know that Team Challenge is comprised of
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Central Challenge and Side Trips
To locate helpful information about Side Trips in
Rules of the Road
To understand how Side Trips contribute to the Team
Challenge solution
To understand how Side Trips can contribute to the
Instant Challenge solution
To use the Side Trip Specialties Inventory to identify
strengths of the team members and team as a whole
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Methods
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Presentation
Discussion
Activity
Debrief
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Side Trips
• Based on theory of multiple intelligences
• Promote uniqueness in team solutions
• Give team the chance to “show off” its:
– Talents
– Strengths
– Skills
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Here are some Side Trip
Creations
giant sphinx
robot judge
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working lock
bus
pantomime
Side Trips Specialty Inventory
• Refer to Team Manager’s Guide & Rules of
the Road
• Complete Individual Specialties Inventory
• Complete Individual Specialties Tally Sheet
• Circle 2 or 3 specialties with highest score
• Small Group – Complete Team Specialties
Tally Sheet
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Individual Specialties Tally Sheet
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A. INTERPERSONAL
B. INTRAPERSONAL
C. LOGIC & MATHEMATICS
D. MUSICAL
E. NATURE & ENVIRONMENT
F. PHYSICAL MOVEMENT
G. WORDS & LANGUAGE
H. VISUAL & SPATIAL
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Team Specialties Tally Sheet
Team Member
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How might a team use the
Specialties Inventory
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To recognize areas of strength
To identify how team members are alike
To identify how team members are unique
To promote better understanding of one
another
• To highlight skills, talents or strengths of
individuals
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How might a Team Manager
use the Specialties Inventory
To know their own “specialties” and to
recognize areas where their expertise
might lend itself to intentional or
unintentional Interference
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The Team Manager’s Job is to
help team members
• Recognize that together they possess a unique
combination of interests, talents, strengths and skills
• Discover, respect, celebrate diversity & individuality of
one another
• Learn to utilize variety of abilities on the team
• Figure out ways the TEAM is unique and exceptional
and to design Side Trips that showcase those areas
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How Might an Appraiser use the
Specialties Inventory
• To understand what Side Trips are
• To understand how teams use the
Specialties Inventory
• To understand how the team’s specialties
manifest themselves in Team Challenge
AND Instant Challenge solutions
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Recap
• Teams do NOT have to use the
Specialties Inventory
• Teams may create any type of Side Trip
they wish
• The purpose of Side Trips is to give
teams an opportunity to show off their
greatest strengths in ways other than
those required by the Challenge!
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Assessment
• List 1 example of something that could
be done as a Side Trip
• Explain which area of strength from the
Specialties Inventory this example
would highlight
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Thank you for
coming
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