Team Building:
Building A
Dream Team
Blue print for dream team (building) for
Service Unit Managers, Leaders,
Volunteers, Scouts, and Anybody Else
who will Listen!
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TEAMWORK
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Why teambuilding…
• increase productivity and quality
(eventually) of interactions
• increase creativity
• increase morale, camaraderie, and member
sense of belonging and satisfaction
• improve member retention, and
• Increase the FUN FACTOR
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Team Building
Preparation
Be prepared for the exciting, scary and most often
hilarious adventures of team building.
Set the stage – adapt, overcome obstacles
Ready? – No really, are you READY!
Set? - ????
Team Build ! ?
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What Is a Team?
Collective effort
and mutual
cooperation.
A group of people
organized for a
particular purpose.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of
the English Language, Fourth Edition
Roget’s The New Thesaurus,
Third Edition
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Cooperative
work
Individual
members
Purpose
Common
Team
Elements
COMMON
TEAM ELEMENTS
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"You’ve got to be very careful if you
don’t know where you’re going
because you might not get there."
Yogi Berra
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Elements of Cooperative Work
• Organizational Support
• Excellent Leadership – Servant Leadership – remove
the barriers
• Committed Team Members – do they really want to
be there?
• **Synergy**
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Effective Leadership
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Synergy
The interaction of two or more agents
or forces so that their combined effect
is greater than the sum of their
individual efforts.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition
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What’s Your Plan?
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The internet:
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Google, Bing, Findit Quick.com – more team
activates then you could ever imagine. (see
attached, for ones I have had success with)
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Make every opportunity a team building
opportunity
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Other Leaders, Friends, Family, Scouts
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Effective Team Building
To effectively team build, you must:
1. Define your team dream
2. Excel in leadership and communicate with your
team.
3. Identify team influencers and address as
appropriate.
4. Acknowledge or better yet EMBRACE that team
building is not a separate activity – incorporate
team building into the routine tasks.
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