Team Building Activity: Hole Tarp
December 03, 2007
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Labels: Activities, Facilitation, Teambuilding, Training
posted by Jay @ 12/03/2007,
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"Euro Traffic Circle" - Activity Based Learning
November 26, 2007
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posted by Jay @ 11/26/2007,
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"Euro Traffic Circle" - Activity Based Learning
November 16, 2007
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posted by Jay @ 11/16/2007,
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Dr. Jim Cain's - "Pizza Toss"
November 08, 2007
For more information go to http://teamworkandteamplay.com/
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Labels: Activities, Facilitation, Teambuilding, Training
posted by Jay @ 11/08/2007,
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TemFrom - "Twelve Tips for Team Building: How to Build Successful Work Teams"
November 05, 2007
From - "Twelve Tips for Team Building: How to Build Successful Work Teams"
By Susan M. Heathfield
In a team-oriented environment, you contribute to the overall success of the organization. You work with fellow members of the organization to produce these results. Even though you have a specific job function and you belong to a specific department, you are unified with other organization members to accomplish the overall objectives. The bigger picture drives your actions; your function exists to serve the bigger picture.
You need to differentiate this overall sense of teamwork from the task of developing an effective intact team that is formed to accomplish a specific goal. People confuse the two team building objectives. This is why so many team building seminars, meetings, retreats and activities are deemed failures by their participants. Leaders failed to define the team they wanted to build. Developing an overall sense of team work is different from building an effective, focused work team when you consider team building approaches.
Twelve Cs for Team Building
Successful team building, that creates effective, focused work teams, requires attention to each of the following.
- Clear Expectations: Has executive leadership clearly communicated its expectations for the team’s performance and expected outcomes?
- Context: Do team members understand why they are participating on the team?
- Commitment: Do team members want to participate on the team? Do team members feel the team mission is important?
- Competence: Does the team feel that it has the appropriate people participating?
- Charter: Has the team taken its assigned area of responsibility and designed its own mission, vision and strategies to accomplish the mission.
- Control: Does the team have enough freedom and empowerment to feel the ownership necessary to accomplish its charter?
- Collaboration: Does the team understand team and group process?
- Communication: Are team members clear about the priority of their tasks?
- Creative Innovation: Is the organization really interested in change?
- Consequences: Do team members feel responsible and accountable for team achievements?
- Coordination: Are teams coordinated by a central leadership team that assists the groups to obtain what they need for success?
- Cultural Change: Does the organization recognize that the team-based, collaborative, empowering, enabling organizational culture of the future is different than the traditional, hierarchical organization it may currently be?
Labels: Corporate, Facilitation, Teambuilding, Training
posted by Jay @ 11/05/2007,
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Chris Cavert's - "As If" - Video
November 02, 2007
For more information visit http://fundoing.com/
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Labels: Activities, Facilitation, Teambuilding, Training, Video
posted by Jay @ 11/02/2007,
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All Balls Variation
Here is an interesting variation on the classic "All Balls" activity. Instead of just a line - build a wall with boxes or milk crates. Instead of balls - use paper.
Labels: Activities, Facilitation, Teambuilding
posted by Jay @ 11/02/2007,
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AEE Rocky Mountain Regional Conference Keynote Speech, April 7, 2006
June 05, 2007
"The time is right for Experiential Education as a field to take a hard look at where we are and the future challenges and possibilities that lie before us. I believe our work in this field is both fragile and incomplete...
...and I hope to share with you both my concerns and my hopes for the field as we move forward...I am not cynical about the future. I have hope for our field and for the project of education in the United States. I believe now, perhaps more than ever, we need the values, beliefs, and ideals of experiential education for our children. But this hope is not a blind optimism. There are forces allied against such a vision of the future. There is much work to be done. So I have a hope without illusion and I would like to share this vision with you as we look toward the future of our schools, and our democracy."
Read Entire Speech
Labels: experiential education, Facilitation
posted by Jay @ 6/05/2007,
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"What's it like to facilitate at your very best?"
April 19, 2007
The following is an excerpt from The Facilitators' Stories by Stuart Wickes.
“I wanted to understand and articulate just what facilitation involved and meant to these facilitators, what it is was like for them to facilitate, and how they experienced it when they were doing it at their best.
“This was a piece of phenomenological research designed to understand the subjective experiences of these eight individuals and to articulate the essence of those experiences and structures of meaning associated with them. It was not research into the how-to, process, organizational aspects or outcomes of facilitation, nor an inquiry into who the facilitators were, their backgrounds, skills or experience. It was a search for understanding of what it is like to facilitate, a search to understand and describe the experience of excellence in facilitation 'in the moment', from the facilitators perspective.
“This short paper presents a few key findings from this research. Firstly I present some very short illustrative extracts from participants stories of excellence in facilitation. Then I offer a model outlining five recurring themes in their stories; features of their experience of excellence.
- cycle of experience
- co-created climate of development
- connection, relationship and rapport
- particular internal experience
- realizing something of value
“One of my primary aims in research was to tell the facilitator's story, to bring the voice of practicing facilitators to the literature on facilitation. Participants were asked to describe in detail experiences of their very best work. I asked them to re-associate with and relive these experiences, to describe from within "exactly what it is like to be facilitating at this time"
“Think of this paper as less of an answer and more of a stimulus for your own curiosity and questions.”
Labels: Facilitation
posted by Jay @ 4/19/2007,
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