Diplomas Now Summer Institute | July 8-9, 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland

Building Highly Effective Teams through the Three Stages of a DN Year

Christopher Pellegrino, City Year, Program Manager 08 – 13Jessica Sasko, Talent Development, STF

Building Trust as a Team’s Foundation

What do you believe teams need in order to be successful?

“Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”Mattie Stepanek

Diplomas Now Summer Institute | July 8-9, 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland

Objectives

Participants will be able to…

Participants will review Patrick Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunction of a Team Pyramid in order to understand the importance of what makes strong teams function.

Participants will build team while learning tools to build, sustain and finish strong as teams in a DN school.

Participants will recognize their roles as leaders in building team throughout the entire school year as teams cross through various stages of development.

Diplomas Now Summer Institute | July 8-9, 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland

DO NOW REFLECTION

Debrief Questions: What was the process for selecting the icebreaker/team builder?

What were the roles that came out during the process?

Are folks comfortable with the roles that they took on? If not, did the group come up with strategies for revisiting roles?

Did anyone naturally step up and lead the process?

Did any challenges or conflicts arise during the icebreaker/team builder?

Please name three different teams you could see using an activity like this at your school and/or organization?

Diplomas Now Summer Institute | July 8-9, 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland

Building A Functioning Team

TRUST

CONFLICT

COMMITMENT

ACCOUNTABILITY

RESULTS

Talent Development/CIS/CY/School Teams

FINISHING STRONG

PROGRESS MONITORING (Sustaining)

OPENING STRONGForming and Norming

Performing or Storming

Lencioni, Patrick M. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, A Leadership Fable. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Diplomas Now Summer Institute | July 8-9, 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland

Examples of Activities to Build Team Through the Pyramid

• Trust – Creating Roles and Norms for the team-Facilitator vs. Supervisor• Conflict – One Word to Describe

Conflict• Commitment – Web of Commitment• Accountability – Gift Seat• Results – Student Data Activity

www.teampedia.net

Diplomas Now Summer Institute | July 8-9, 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland

Team Planning Time

Step 1 Title

• Each team will list all the teams that exist in the building and the connections between those teams.

Step 2 Title

• After listing out the various school teams, choose and identify team builders that help build trust amongst different groups.

Step 3 Title

• After selecting team builders action plan out, using action planning template, on how and when they are going to build team as a DN team first.

Step 4 Title

• After action planning out their own plan, begin creating their opening strong plans on the approach they will take to build trust amongst the various teams in their school community.

Diplomas Now Summer Institute | July 8-9, 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland

Some Ideas Around Building Trust

• Getting to Know Each other as People First• Setting Norms vs. Rules• Setting Roles• Creating Meeting Schedule• Setting Goals around ABC• Commitments to the Group

Diplomas Now Summer Institute | July 8-9, 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland

Reflect On Your Current Team:Forming/Norming/Storming/Performing

Questions to Guide Reflection:1. How long have you all been working together? 2. Do you have any new team members? 3. Do you have a true facilitator or is the leader more of a supervisor? 4. Do all team members participate and is accountability shared? 5. Do you have systems to address conflict?6. Do you have systems of accountability?7. Do you have shared visions and shared goals?8. Have you recently experienced a disagreement, frustration or conflict together

with no resolve?9. Do you know what each of your team members are held accountable for and

what each member is working on?10. How often do you meet, both formally and informally?11.Does the group have an established date for checking in on group process?

How well are we working together, what can be improved and what is going well?

12.Do we share food and celebrate one another?

Thank you!

Comments, Questions, and Contact Info:

Christopher Pellegrino at cpellegrino07@gmail.com Jessica Sasko at jsasko@jhu.edu