Team Building Workshop

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Team Building Workshop

• Coming together is a beginning
• Keeping together is progress
• Working together is success.
• Henry Ford

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Prior Student Experience

• Team Membership
• Sports
• Marching Band/Ensembles
• Clubs (e.g., Chess)
• Team or Leadership Seminars
• High School
• Church Youth Groups
• ROTC
• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering 695 Seminar)

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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

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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.

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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
creates a written record of what was discussed
and what decisions were made in each meeting
Recorder
Referee
keeps the discussion in line and on time
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Enhancing Performance

• Individual Performance
• Assembly Effect
• - Process Losses .
• Team Performance

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Exercise Simply Supported Beams
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Exercise Simply Supported Beams

• two sheets of newsprint
• b) one adhesive backed file label or equivalent
  piece of tape
• c) two plastic cups to use as beam supports.
• Additional design constraints
• 1) the file label NOT attached to cups
• 2) weight must not touch the table and
• 3) one sheet Superior Design of the Year
  Award.

65 cm
Note 65 cm is from edge of cup to edge of cup.
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Index of Learning Styles

• Go to WebCT gt 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.

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Learning Styles and Strategies

• What is measured is preference, NOT competence
• Better understanding of how you learn can help
  regardless of the teachers style
• Understanding your preference and that of others
  may help in teamwork and engineering practice

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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.

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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.

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Team Working Agreement

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

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Possible Issues To Address

• Effective communication method
• Participation by all members
• Decision-making
• Problem solving approaches
• Management of conflict or differences
• Responsibilities and conduct

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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.

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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

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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.