Team Building

Team Building

Ron Styron
Assistant Professor
University of Southern
Mississippi
What
What do
do you
you need
need to
to have
have aa
good
good team?
team?
 Why Team?
•The power of team is greater than
the individual
•Good team work will produce
synergy
 What is a good team?
•Good teams define the problem before
jumping to solutions
•Good teams have some type of structure with
defined roles
•Good teams encourage new ideas and allow
issue related conflict
 How do you team?
•First step is to get to know each
other
•Activities or games can facilitate
this process
 Activity #1
•Unique Introductions
1. Get into pairs (Not necessarily with your best friend)
2. Talk for three minutes and share at least one thing
with your colleague that they did not know
3. Introduce your colleague and tell their secret
 Activity #2
•Commonalities
1. Divide the group in half
2. Find one thing the group has in common—Three
minutes—then share
3. Divide the group in half and find another commonality
related to the first
4. Divide again and find another commonality related to
the second
5. So on and so forth………
 Activity #3
•Who Am I?
1. Divide into groups of 5
2. Write a bio explaining who you are, how you like to
teach, what you think is important, etc.—take five
minutes
3. Do not write you name on your bio
4. Mix up the bios and select one (that is not your own)
5. Read it to the group and see if they can guess who it
belongs to
 Resources
•Executive Marbles and Other Team Building
Activities by Sam Sikes
•50 Ways to Use Your Noodle
•Feed the Zircon Gorilla
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