Creating a Team Environment

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Step 1: Establish the Team

Have team decide together on a shared definition of what it means to be a "cohesive group." This definition should:

• Set forth a team identifier (BG4+1)
• Communication standards
• Commitment requirements
• Shared responsibility
• Pride for the group's work
• Progress towards meeting objectives.

Step 2: Understand Your Team

Get to know the individuals on your team:

• Identify strengths and weaknesses of each member
• Explore cultural background and viewpoints
• Identify communication and learning style
• Create rapport through sharing of interests, motivations and goals

Step 3: CHRIS

Communication:

• Thinks Strategically
• Drives for results
• Always honesty and upfront
• Communicates through collaboration
• Open minded and willing to work with others
• Likes to lead but can follow
• Can take action
• Maintains focus while removing obstacles
• Sometimes can over think a problem

Learning:

• Visual learning style
• More likely to learn what i see then hear
• More analytical then creative

Motivation:

• Motivated by family
• Desire to succeed both financially and professionally
• Competition- want to be the best

Interests:

• Travel and the outdoors
• Sports and anything competitive
• Reading and learning

Culture and Environment:

• Strong Family values
• Conviction
• Strive to do the best everyday
• Hard working professional who enjoys getting to know new people

Step 4: KIM

Motivation:

• Being a late bloomer is my biggest motivation
• My motivation is to live a good life
• I love to travel I love meeting people who are positive
• I love to learn

Learning style Culture/Environment:

• I’m naturally fond of people who are quite different from me
• I have learned from my environment.
• I have a very easy time welcoming many different kinds of individuals into my circle

• Also it been my motto to stay true to myself. I walk by the Shakespeare statute a lot and I’m reminded “to thine own self be true”
• I love intelligent people and this is why I love my team
• I come from very humble begging
• I learn best by doing the task I do not like to read directions
• I love the sun

Interest:

• I like all kinds of music but, R&B makes sing very loud to every song
• I love school and I have had for the most part a wonderful experience here at Villanova
• I fit in even thou I’m could be older than the teacher (LOL)
• I love to woo people also I strategize before doing things

Communication:

• Instinctively I find the right words to express what I’m thinking
• I’m by nature a innovative inventive , original and very resourceful
• I have the ability to vividly express my thoughts and feeling

Step 5: RYAN

Communication:

• Gives full explanations, explaining details of points made to convey meaning
• Let’s teammates/co-workers know when I do not understand something
• Open minded to others thoughts and ideas (at least more than I used to be)
• Can be overly direct at times

Learning:

• Auditory learner; prefer verbal communication with co-workers/teammates
• More likely to remember what I have heard as opposed to what has been shown
• Tend to re-word others explanations in order to check my understanding

Motivation:

• Personal growth, drive to be better/Pride
• Down time; the promise of an extra hour at the end of the day to read is enough to press on
• Security; financial and emotional security drives daily goals
• Competition; drive to be better than the next person, team or co-worker

Culture/Environment:

• Come from an open ended competitive environment
• Culture that fostered any direct so long as it was sought eagerly
• Culture that favors personal growth but appreciates family values as well
• Culture that revels in material success has left gaps to fill in maturity

Interests:

• Security and Personal growth
• Physical and Mental challenge
• Competition
• Reading
• Exercise
• Volunteering

Step 6: COLLEEN

Effectively Communicate:

• honesty
• respect
• create a space for other to feel comfortable
• share thoughts/concerns
• open to all opinions and thoughts
• create alignment with the receiver
• hear from everyone

How I learn:

• Hands on
• verbal directions while taking notes
• working in a group
• Asking questions
• clear direct directions

Motivates me:

• Keeping my integrity in check
• family & friends
• love, peace & nature
• possibility
• power
• challenges that better oneself

Culture/Environment:

• creativity
• Open & bold
• Friendly/ one big happy family
• free to think outside the box
• everyone wins together
• raw emotions (pure, open & honesty for yourself and others)
• possibility
• risk
• ownership
• comfortable

Interest/ other traits:

• nature
• Outdoor activities
• create something from scratch and make it beautiful
• helping others
• floral arrangements
• motivate others
• future family

Step 7: MIKE

Effectively Communicate:

• Straight forward
• Short and to the point

How I learn:

• Hands on
• Little instruction
• Working interdependently
• Others experiences

Motivates me:

• Ideas
• Creativity
• People
• Technology

Culture/Environment:

• Diverse background
• Open minded
• Pescetarian
• Upstate NY
• Transformation

Interest/ other traits:

• Mixed Martial Arts
• Tennis
• Soccer
• College Basketball
• Air Jordan's

Step 8: Decide How You Will Communicate As a Team

Decide collectively how the team will communicate as a group for the project

• Decide how information will be shared within the group
• Determine where information and updates will be stored
• Define consensus and how voting is conducted
• Setting Clear Objectives

Step 9: Meetings

Determine how planning and meetings will be conducted for the group including:

• Who will lead meetings
• How the time will be used
• Where they will be held and who should attend
• Outline roles and responsibilities
• Defining project objective and goals

Step 10: Mix Your Ingrediants