Team Work Learning Module

Category Time Description

(hr)

Intro 4 Questions, Importance of Teams

What do you know?
What do you want to know more of?
Creating the 4 • Space to take chances
learning • Ownership
environment Video • Creating our plan
• Roles

Flip learning 4 Getting ready for self/buddy learning

Charter 4 What do we want to accomplish?
Goals
Culture 8 Values, Norms, Beliefs, Norms
Communications 7 Listening, Dealing with people, 6 Hats
Team practice 6 • Working-together
• Sports teams
• Music groups

Reflection/ 3 How are going to move forward?

Celebration
Total= 40 hr

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How to begin
• First take the time with your study partner to look over the FLIP
learning section to get an overview prior to creating your team.

• Create your purpose statement of your Charter for your team. What do
you want this team to do?

• Build your Cultural statement for the team. Look at the first 10 minutes
of the first video in the FLIP section to get an idea of the importance of
your team culture.

• Review and discuss the Support items with your team mates. How will
you incorporate these into your team activity?

• When learning about a new subject as a team, use various questions

to gather information.

• What are the outcomes (Deliverables) we want for this portion of the
project?

• Review the development of your ground rules for your team.

FLIP Learning overview

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Introduction Introduction to Project Academy

Questions, Utilize the Experience and Wisdom of your
Importance of Teams
past
What do you know? Experience? practical contact with and observation
of facts or events. "he had already learned his lesson
by painful experience"
What do you want to
know more of? Wisdom? ability to discern inner qualities and
relationships : insight. b : good sense : judgment

Creating a learning • Space to take chances

environment • Ownership
• Creating our plan
know your • Roles
customer- Their How the classes will run & our
needs responsibility
• Our culture, students’ responsibility
Help with personal Tenants [Link]
development [Link]

Flip learning Getting ready for self/buddy learning

A successful organizational culture brings together the people of your

organization and keeps them aligned. When your culture is clear, different
perspectives can gather behind it with common purpose. The culture at your
organization sets expectations for how people behave and work together, and
how well they function as a community.
In this way, culture can break down the boundaries between silos, guide
decision-making, and improve workflow overall. On the flip side, a toxic
organizational culture has the capacity to do just the opposite. source The
culture is how we operate together.

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Team work
skills

“The work world

has changed so
that social skills
are at a
premium. Over
70% of jobs
today involve
membership of
a team…
Increased
technology in
the workplace is
associated with
interdependenc
e …teams
cooperate with
teams. In
today’s world
teamwork skills
are
employability
skills.” Dr.
Spencer Kagan

Our subsequent conversations with hundreds of Millennials made it clear that what they
want most from their managers isn’t more managerial direction, per se, but more
help with their own personal development. One Millennial we spoke
with summed up a theme we heard again and again: “I would like to move ahead in my
career. And to do that, it’s very important to be in touch with my manager, constantly
getting coaching and feedback from him so that I can be more efficient and proficient

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Flip learning Getting ready for self/buddy

learning
Charter What do we want to
accomplish? Goals
Culture Values, Norms, Beliefs,
Norms

Charter / Goals of the team: To Facilitate the changing from

just a group of Individuals to a team that
has its own Charter (purpose, Goals and roles) for working
together
The charter represents a document that describes a project, its
rationale, its goals and its participants. The purpose of a
charter aims at aligning the expectations of all the contributors
so that their energy focuses on the project's priorities.

Developing & Purpose ...The reason why something is done or

recording the used, the aim or intention of something
elements of Any Rules
our Charter
Organization structure-Roles Scribe, Captain,
Planner, Advisor, Tester, Public reporter,

Authorization?
Goals for our team

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Questions to start:
Discuss what a community’s
culture is.
• How is it like a company or
team’ culture?
• What are the negatives of
a community culture?

What are the elements The culture is how we operate together

of a team culture • What are our values as a
community? Examples of potential
statement? Discuss values
ours? • How do we deal with other people?
• Do we have norms that we operate
with?
• Are there rituals that we follow?
• What are our beliefs?

Process: Create a table of your items to create your cultural

statement

Item Description

Interpersonal Body language, Smiling, Greetings,

skills Helpfulness, Caring, Positive attitude, The
Platinum Rule( Bose corp.)

Norms Guide What fun and innovative ways can we make

acceptable behavior the community better, Good

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collaboration, Think critical & creatively, Self-
regulation support

Rituals What actions or events do we want to do to

learn, honor our team member, etc. What's
on my mind intro.

Beliefs Something Learn from Failure” and “Make Others

that is accepted Successful, Focus on the customer and all else
will follow, Do your best, Continuous improvement,
Life-long-learner

Values Trust, Honesty, Listening, Empathy, Curiosity,

Kindness, Flexibility, Respect,
Independence, Collaboration,

Sports/Music In a good team the players work together ( no

Analogy stars) and care about each other and want all
to be successful. They Achieve their
beliefs, Their outcomes.

Jazz experience

Major team elements

•Trust: Psychological safety that enables interpersonal risk taking and
confidence that the team will not embarrass or punish someone for
speaking up

• Constructive conflict: Comfort with and encouragement of diverse

perspectives and productive disagreement as necessary ingredients to
innovation and good decisions
• Collaboration: Active listening, building on and connecting the ideas of
others to solve each other’s problems
• Accountability: Commitment to team processes, the decisions of the
team, and holding each other accountable for expected performance

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Example of a Cultural Statement

1. We want to be a learning organization to promotes individual
& community growth.
2. We honor our community people by making them
successful.
3. We listen with understanding and curiosity of what others
say.
4. We trust, are flexible in our outlook, honest and provide
loving kindness to others that we meet.
5. We focus on our customer and understand their needs.
6. We look to make the world and other communities better.
7. We are innovative and use creative and critical thinking
processes.
8. We organize our processes and look to help others.
e use questions to begin dialogue.
Follow our ground rules

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Communications Listening, Dealing with people, 6 Hats

Dealing with conflicts in the team

Resource for discussion Insure active listening to each other
of conflicts.
Seek understanding not agreement

Outline the issues

Build dialogue

Agree to an action plan

Insure you follow up.

Be positive

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Team practice • Working-together

• Sports teams
• Music groups

Reflection/ Celebration How are going to move forward?

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Communication Skills Examples of good communication skills are:
• Listening skills (especially active listening skills)
• Written and spoken communication skills
• Verbal and non-verbal skills (body language)
• Patience and understanding other’s feelings
• Friendliness and being supportive
• Confidence in all of your interactions with others • Open-mindedness to
other person’s point of view
• Respect to people and their ideas
• Being able to appropriately give and receive feedback
• Presentation skills
• Public speaking skills

Tips to improve your communication skills:

• Watch your body language and be careful with eye contact.
• Get rid of unnecessary and irritating words such as “um” or “like.”
• Use humor and tell stories.
• Ask questions to clarify.
• Get rid of distractions.
• Pronounce your words correctly.
• Always be polite and understanding

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