Team Building Workshop

1. Team Building Workshop “Coming together is a beginning;Keeping together is progress;Working together is success.” - Henry Ford

2. Prior Student Experience • Team Membership • Sports • Marching Band/Ensembles • Clubs (e.g., Chess) • Team or Leadership Seminars • High School • Church Youth Groups • ROTC

3. So… Why Teamwork? • Industry Needs • Teamwork skills • Communication skills • Negotiation and Conflict Resolution • Provides support system for students • Responds to wider range of learning styles • Required skill among graduates for Universities to maintain national accreditation

4. Workshop Goals • To provide you with an overview of team organization and team performance; • To provide time for reflection and discussion on team characteristics; and • To give you a chance to practice teamwork skills.

5. Team Organization • For complex projects, it is often useful to assign roles for members of the team. Facilitator: leads and controls meeting; makes sure that all members have a chance to speak Recorder: creates a written record of what was discussed and what decisions were made in each meeting Referee: keeps the discussion in line and on time Moderator: ensures that all topics are covered

6. Enhancing Performance Individual Performance + Assembly Effect - Process Losses. Team Performance

7. Stages of Team Development • Forming • As the team forms, members tend to be on their ‘best behavior’ and work on getting along • Storming • As the team gets closer, conflict develops. Disagreements build and cliques appear • Norming • Rules of conduct develop and members discuss their differences rather than argue • Performing • As the team reaches maturity, members are open and supportive of each other.

8. Stages of Team Development Courtesy – Tau Beta Pi Engineering Futures - Leadership Workshop

9. Individual Characteristics • Can be measured by • Meyers-Briggs Personality • Learning Styles Inventory • Teams should be heterogeneous • Different personalities • Different Learning Styles • Different backgrounds • Different experiences

10. Index of Learning Styles • Go to WebCT > Course Tools • Click on “Learning Styles Inventory” • Complete Inventory and Submit • Please put Seat Number with name • Print Results • Make a record of your results on handout for later use • Give original printout to your TA.

11. Learning Styles and Strategies • What is measured is preference, NOT competence • Understanding your preference and that of others may help in teamwork and engineering practice • ALSO – A better understanding of how you learn can help regardless of the teacher’s teaching style

12. Team Working Agreement • A Team Working Agreement is a list of expectations each team has for its members. • These team agreements should be designed with your team in mind. • The agreement is effectively a contract you sign with all members. • You will be expected to abide by that contract.

13. Team Working Agreement • Tailor your agreement to meet the specific needs of your members. • All members need to be accountable for the statements in the agreement.

14. Team Working Agreement • Each member of your group needs to have input. • The agreement is a chance for all members to voice their opinion.

15. Possible Issues To Address • Effective communication method • Participation by all members • Decision-making • Problem solving approaches • Management of conflict or differences • Responsibilities and conduct

16. Peer Evaluation • Attends meetings; is on time. • Agrees to do a fair share of the assignments. • Completes assignments on time. • Attends class and lab; is on time. Actively participates in team discussions. • Listens to other team members’ contributions. • Shows respect for other team members.

17. What it takes to be effective • Positive interdependence • All members of a team must share a common, realized goal • Individual and group accountability • Each member of the team must take responsibility for both his or her work and the work of the team

18. What it takes to be effective • Meaningful Interaction • All members do real work in a face-to-face setting • Teamwork skills • Effective communication, decision making, and conflict management • Group Processing • Periodic reflections on the progression of your work.

19. Write a Working Agreement • For Lab teams, in general • Take ~10 minutes to discuss and list ideas • Class discussion of agreement statements • Write a formal copy of the your Lab Team Agreement and turn it in tomorrow as Drawing 6 • One per table/team.

20. Samples From Working Agreements • Show up to all lab classes on time; if meeting outside of class always let others know of time conflicts ahead of time • Respect other members • Criticize ideas, not people • Don’t take constructive criticism personally • Let all members participate and share the workload evenly • Take responsibility for your actions, ideas, and words • Avoid distractions and keep meetings on topic, and on time • Have fun and reward the team for positive ideas! • Always be prepared to work the full time allotted for meetings

21. Exercise: Simply Supported Beams

22. 65 cm Load Exercise: Simply Supported Beams • Two sheets of newsprint • One adhesive backed file label or equivalent piece of tape • Two plastic cups to use as beam supports. • Additional design constraints: • The file label NOT attached to cups • Weight must not touch the table; • One sheet = superior design of the year award Note: 65 cm is from edge of cup to edge of cup.