COORDINATION & TEAM WORK

TEAMS

Start with importance of coordination – even when all ‘M’s are available, achievement
comes only with effective coordination & team work

- Knowledge, skills and other resources – what else is required?

- Attitude & Team Work

Participants to be asked to get signature from others - pertaining to the 10 conditions

below:

1. Person who has more than 20 years of work experience

2. Person who has an MBA or M Tech
3. Person whose birthday falls in August
4. Person who has worked in more than 3 departments
5. Person who has a girlfriend/boyfriend
6. Person who drives a car to work everyday
7. Person whose height is below 5.5 ft
8. Person who has seen the movie Angamaly Diaries
9. Person who has only one child
10. Person who is short tempered

(Know others in your team, communicate freely)

‘Together Everyone Achieves More’ - TEAM

BARRIERS TO TEAM BUILDING/WORK

– Personal agenda/interests
– Mistrust
– Conflict
– Personal bias
– Silo thinking (Departments don’t share information with other
departments)
– Inadequate communication
– Lack of consensus
– Lack of empathy
– Lack of clarity in goals, objectives, roles
– Lack of strong project management

‘If we look at the above, most of the above are individual based’
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ASK participants to say one characteristic/facet of their behaviour.
Discuss how difficult it is.

I Vs WE

 Ego - Belief about personality, talents, abilities – may be artificial

ASK participants to say the multiplication table. Talk about stereotypes.

 Self-importance
 Success
 LET GO EGO

PROVE vs IMPROVE

Video

Dewitt Jones – Photographer - freelance photographer – National Geographic

Robert Gilka – Director, Photography, National Geographic

 Collaboration not competition

 Not pulling down others
 Consciously, continuously improving oneself
 Refining skills, honing wisdom, focussing
 Only person you have to beat is YOU
 (message is) Change oneself

TOWER BUILDING

Task: Manufacture a Stable Tower (Highest Stable Tower wins the prize)

Time: 15 minutes

Teams: 5 to 8 persons per team

Materials:
- Marshmallow Sweets – 15 pieces per team
- Spaghetti Sticks – 25 sticks per team
- Stitching Thread – 1 reel per team

“Confidence never comes from having all the answers;

It comes from being open to all the questions”
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