tools for building teams

Tools for Building Teams

Tim LucasCLIU - Special Projects

Lehigh University - Education Leadership

Staff, Teachers, Students

Principals,Building Leaders,

Board of Directors,Superintendent,Central Office

“Getting on the balcony…”

Ron Heifetz

A Systems Thinking View of Schools

Workers of the Line - Teachers And Students

Middle Management - Principals. Department Heads, School Leaders

Board of Directors, CEO, COO -Superintendent, Central Office Staff

The History ofThe Fifth Discipline and the Fieldbooks

1990

1994

1999

2000

Core CompetenciesFor Building Teams

Determine Where You Are Going

Create an Environment For Needed Conversations

Develop Your Capacity to Solve Messy Problems

Determine Where You Are Going

Here’swherewe are

Here’swhere we want to be

Here’swherewe are

Here’swhere we want to be

The actions wemust take

Worksheet for CLIU Action Plans

Goal_______________________________________________________

Concern it Addresses _________________________________________

Evaluation of Success________________________________________

Action Person(s) Timeline Tools/Processes Other DateItems Responsible To Be Used Resources Completed

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This house will be a place of sharing, nurturing, and new beginnings for all of us - centered by our love and focused on the present. It will be a welcoming home and a sanctuary of peace and happiness that

we will always continue to build together.

January 15, 2006

Create an EnvironmentFor Needed Conversations

Key Questions for Schools

1. What do we want our students to learn?

2. How will we know they have learned it?

3. What will we do if they can’t learn it?

4. What will we do when they do learn it?

Key Questions for Schools

1. What do we want our students to learn?

2. How will we know they have learned it?

3. What will we do if they can’t learn it?

4. What will we do when they do learn it?

The Team Environment You Create

Topic or Goal

Topic or Goal

“We do not describe the world we see,

We see the world we know how to describe.”

We’ve either got to find a way to motivate Jean or ask her to leave.

Jean’s not really interested in working with us.

She’s probably been forced to show up, but she leaves as soon as she can.

She must not really be interested in the committee.

Jean, one of the secretaries on our district committee, left early today.

Going Up The Ladder

We’ve either got to find a way to motivate Jean or ask her to leave.

Jean’s not really interested in working with us.

She’s probably been forced to show up, but she leaves as soon as she can.

She must not really be interested in the committee.

Jean, one of the secretaries on our district committee, left early today.

Going Up The Ladder

We’ve either got to find a way to motivate Jean or ask her to leave.

Jean’s not really interested in working with us.

She’s probably been forced to show up, but she leaves as soon as she can.

She must not really be interested in the committee.

Jean, one of the secretaries on our district committee, left early today.

Going Up The Ladder

We’ve either got to find a way to motivate Jean or ask her to leave.

Jean’s not really interested in working with us.

She’s probably been forced to show up, but she leaves as soon as she can.

She must not really be interested in the committee.

Jean, one of the secretaries on our district committee, left early today..

Going Up The Ladder

We’ve either got to find a way to motivate Jean or ask her to leave.

Jean’s not really interested in working with us.

She’s probably been forced to show up, but she leaves as soon as she can.

She must not really be interested in the committee.

Jean, one of the secretaries on our district committee, left early today.

Going Up The Ladder

Inattention toResults

Avoidance ofAccountability

Lack ofCommunication

Fear ofConflict

Absence ofTrust

The FiveDysfunctionsOf a TeamPatrickLencioni

“I’m sure glad the hole isn’t in our end.”

How Teams Learn

A good team can talk about anything.

Develop Your Capacity to Solve Messy Problems

Photographer: Ric Manager

Location: St. Johns, Newfoundland

Estimated Weight: 300,000,000 tons

The Iceberg

Event: _________________________________________________________________________________

Pattern or Trend:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Systemic Structure:__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mental Models:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

TrappersCatch Beavers

BeaversWant Revenge

BeaversCatch Trappers

TrappersWant Revenge

BOTG

Shifting The Burden

Shifting The Burden

ChallengeFor The Team

Mechanical,Output-Centered Process

Goal Centered,Creative TeamLong Term Solution

Absence of Trust,Fear of Conflict,Lack of Communication,Avoidance of AccountabilityInattention to Results

Shifting The Burden

How Teams Learn …

Core CompetenciesFor Building Teams

Determine Where You Are Going

Create an Environment For Needed Conversations

Develop Your Capacity to Solve Messy Problems

The Window and the Mirror…. Jim Collins

If you don't know the kind of person I am,and I don't know the kind of person you are,

a pattern that others made may prevail in the world,and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break,

sending with shouts, the horrible errors of childhood,storming out to play through the broken dike.

And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail,but if one wanders the circus won't find the park,

I call it cruel and maybe the root of crueltyto know what occurs, but not recognize the fact.

And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,a remote important region in all who talk;

though we could fool each other, we should consider - lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.

For it is important that awake people be awake,or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;

the signals we give - yes or no, or maybe -should be clear; the darkness around us is deep.

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

By William StaffordAmerican Poet1914-1993

Thank You

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