Team Building in a Project Environment...Team Building in a Project Environment: Kindergarten Skills...
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Team Building in a Project Environment: Kindergarten Skills You Can Use!
PMI KC Mid America ChapterOctober 2015
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Leaders help
their team
practice
Kindergarten
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Kindergarten
skills.
Who is the most important
stakeholder group?
• Community
• Customers
• Investors
• Suppliers
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• Suppliers
• Team Members -
Employees
Which would you prefer as a leader?
• Excellent teamwork
and marginal talent
• Excellent talent and
marginal teamwork
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Teams are everywhere
• Teams exist on multiple levels/aspects
• Implied teams need to be recognized
– Personnel of a specific skill set or discipline are a team
• Project Managers, Business Analysts, etc
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– Same shift, location, customer, vendor etc.
• Implied teams need leaders and team building
activities
Russell Wilson is a good team leader because
_______ are more important?
• Persona, Attitude and
Integrity
• Physical ability and
Performance
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Project Management Skills
In order of importance
Communication skills*
Organizational skills*
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Organizational skills*
Team building skills*
Leadership skills*
Coping skills*
Technological skillsPosner (1987)
Communication is misconstrued by some
leaders
• Organizational surveys always state communication is a
problem
– The average American spends 15 hours a month criticizing or
complaining about their boss
• Everything and every activity should be used to
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communicate
– Especially project management tools
• Tell them over and over:
– Set and maintain cadence
You must provide the forest view for
those in the trees
• ...the role of the
manager isn’t simply
to pass out
instructions; it is also
to inform: people
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to inform: people
need to know where
they stand. It’s a
psychological
necessity, and morale
suffers in the absence
of such knowledge.
Kindergarten Test for Effective Teams
Social
� I work and play well with others
� I follow rules
� I practice good manners
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� I take part readily in group activities
� I assume responsibility*
� I show initiative and effort*
• Message to Garcia - http://www.birdsnest.com/garcia.htm(It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the
vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the
thing:)
Kindergarten Test for Effective Teams
Emotional
� I adjust easily to new situations
� I exercise self discipline
� I accept suggestions
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� I attempt to solve problems independently
Kindergarten Test for Effective Teams
Work Habits
� I try to do my work neatly
� I finish my work
� I keep things in order
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� I use time to good advantage
� I care for School and personal property
� I clean up after work periods
Kindergarten Test for Effective Teams
Skills and Interests
� I follow directions
� I express my ideas well
� I listen when others are speaking
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� I am alert and aware of the things around me
� I can see likenesses and differences
� I understand meanings of numbers
Team Charter
• The team charter is an important and powerful
leadership tool
– Not a project charter!
• The team charter emphasizes accountability
through role clarification and normalizing
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through role clarification and normalizing
expectations
• The team charter helps build consistency in the
behavior of team members
Finally. take a nap
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