Toastmasters Leadership Institute Training
To District 25 Toastmasters Club Officers
by Ron Clark, DTM
TEAM BUILDING
Outline of My Presentation
 Boat story
 The basics of team building
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Vision
Examples of vision
Commitment
Trust
Inclusion
Ten characteristics of a team
Guidelines for effective team membership
Characteristics of a high-performance team
Secrets of successful teams
“Successful teams” checklist evaluation
Final thoughts
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Story of Five Toastmasters
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Vision
 Leadership must demonstrate a vision.
 Ask yourself “What is your idea of the future?”
 Begin with the end in mind. Where does your
company, club, or origination want to go?
 What do you want to happen?
 When do you want to finish?
 Don’t keep your vision a secret. Management
must share their vision with his/her team.
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Examples of Vision
 Story of Denton Toastmasters 2004 who developed
15 club goals completed all goals by June 30th and
their president won the D-25 Outstanding
President’s Award in 2005.
 Creation of a Facilities and Equipment Budget
Software in 1987. This team completed the software
within 3 months and saved the agency $4 million per
year for 20 years.
 Story of FAA Toastmasters who lost all but three
members and ended the year with 22 members
completing their first Distinguished Toastmasters
Club award.
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Commitment
 Vince Lombardi said, “Individual commitment to
a group effort -- that is what makes a team work,
a company work, a society work, a civilization
work.”
 Thomas Jefferson said, “We mutually pledge to
each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honour.”
 Marian Wright Edelman said,” You're not
obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying
to do the best you can every day.”
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Trust
 Dave Coberly
 George Macdonald said, “To be trusted is a
greater compliment than to be loved.”
 Frank Crane said, “You may be deceived if you
trust too much, but you will live in torment if you
don't trust enough.”
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Inclusion
 Everyone wants to believe they are part of a
solution.
 Make them part of your team
 Results in fewer complaints
 Team members will work harder
 Members won’t take individual credit
 Members will defend your vision against others
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Ten Characteristics of a Team
 Members understand why the team exists.
 Members must know what needs to be done
next.
 Members know their individual roles.
 Authority and decision-making lines are clear
and understood.
 Conflict is managed carefully. Dealt with openly
with an attitude toward a team member’s
personal growth.
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Ten Characteristics of a Team
Continued
 Members feel their unique personalities are
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appreciated and well utilized.
Group norms for working together are set and seen
as standards for every one in the groups.
Members find team meetings efficient and
productive and look forward to this time together.
Members know clearly when the team has met with
success and share in this equally and proudly.
Opportunities for feedback and updating skills are
provided and taken advantage of by team members.
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Guidelines for Effective
Team Membership
 Contribute ideas and solutions
 Recognize and respect differences in others
 Value the ideas and contributions of others (Make it
a joy to meet and solve issues).
 Listen and share information (The more each
members knows, the better chance of a solution).
 Ask questions and get clarification (If you don’t
understand, find out why. Remember the King who
had no clothes. Better to discover a problem before
you begin the make 1,000,000 copies).
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More Guidelines for
Effective Team Membership
 Participate fully and keep your commitments
 Be flexible and respect the partnership
created by a team -- strive for the "win-win"
(Teams will support a solution if they are part
of the solution. Value the difference in
members).
 Have fun and care about the team and the
outcomes. (Celebrate success).
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Characteristics of a HighPerformance Team
 Participative leadership - creating interdependence
by empowering, freeing up and serving others.
 Shared responsibility - establishing an environment
in which all team members feel responsibility as the
manager for the performance team.
 Aligned on purpose - having a sense of common
purpose about why the team exists and the function
it serves.
 High communication - creating a climate of trust and
open, honest communication.
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More Characteristics of a
High-Performance Team
 Future focused - seeing change as an
opportunity for growth.
 Focused on task - keeping meetings and
interactions focused on results.
 Creative talents - applying individual talents and
creativity.
 Rapid response - identifying and acting on
opportunities.
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Characteristics of a Good Team
 Everyone participates actively and positively
in meetings and projects.
 Everyone understands team goals.
 Individual members have thought hard about
creative solutions to the problem.
 Members are carefully listened to and receive
thoughtful feedback.
 Everyone takes initiative to get things done.
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Continued Characteristics of a
Good Team
 Each teammate trusts the judgment of the others.
 The team is willing to take risks.
 Everyone is supportive of the project and of
others.
 There is plenty of communication between team
members.
 Team decisions are made using organized, logical
methods.
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Continued Characteristics of a
Good Team
 Everyone participates actively and positively in
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meetings and projects.
Full team acceptance is expected as decisions are
made.
Dissenting opinions are recorded, and may be
revisited if future situations dictate.
Team goals are given realistic time frames.
Everyone is focused on the ultimate goal of the
project, while also digging into the underlying
details.
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Secrets Of Successful Teams
 COMMUNICATION
 EXCELLENCE
 FOLLOWERSHIP
 UNDERSTANDING RULES
 STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
 FUN
 COMMON GOAL AND VISION
 APPRECIATION
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“Successful Teams” Checklist
Evaluation
 Is there communication between coach and players and from
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player to player?
Is your team committed to excellence?
Do those on the team know what it means to follow?
Does everyone on my team know their specific role?
Do the individuals on our team regularly operate out of their
strengths as opposed to their weaknesses?
Does our team take a break from time to time to just have fun
together?
Do we understand our common goals and vision? Can we all state
it (them)?
Is there a sense of and communication of genuine appreciation
among my team?
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Final Thoughts… Remember,
there is no I in TEAM
 Peter Drucker said, “The leaders who work
most effectively, it seems to me, never say
"I." And that's not because they have trained
themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I."
They think "we"; they think "team." They
understand their job to be to make the team
function. They accept responsibility and don't
sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is
what creates trust, what enables you to get
the task done.”
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My handout can be found at
www.d25toastmasters.org/tli/
resources
Any Questions?
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