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Unlocking Team Strengths: Side Trips in Team Challenge

Explore how Side Trips impact the Team Challenge solution, identify strengths using the Specialties Inventory, and promote uniqueness through activities. Team Manager and Appraiser roles explained.

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Unlocking Team Strengths: Side Trips in Team Challenge

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  1. Including What’s Special

  2. Goals • To know that Team Challenge is comprised of 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

  3. Methods • Presentation • Discussion • Activity • Debrief

  4. Side Trips • Based on theory of multiple intelligences • Promote uniqueness in team solutions • Give team the chance to “show off” its: • Talents • Strengths • Skills

  5. Here are some Side Trip Creations giant sphinx working lock bus pantomime robot judge

  6. 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

  7. Individual Specialties Tally Sheet • A. INTERPERSONAL ___ • B. INTRAPERSONAL ___ • C. LOGIC & MATHEMATICS ___ • D. MUSICAL ___ • E. NATURE & ENVIRONMENT ___ • F. PHYSICAL MOVEMENT ___ • G. WORDS & LANGUAGE ___ • H. VISUAL & SPATIAL ___

  8. Team Specialties Tally Sheet

  9. How might a team use the Specialties Inventory • 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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!

  14. 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

  15. Thank you for coming

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