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Over the past 10 years in the field of human and organizational development, the approach to team building has moved from problem solving and conflict management to helping work groups and organizations build a foundation of trust, cooperation, and mutual support. Focusing on collaboration rather than resolving conflict, Building Better Teams: 70 Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Performance Within and Across Teams offers a fresh approach to team building. It provides proven tools for the most common needs of teams, including establishing trust, building consensus, managing change, working virtually and across boundaries, and dealing with setbacks.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

List of Tools

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Contributors

Introduction

Section One: A Systematic Approach to Team Building

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Building Better Teams: An Evolution in Thinking

Some Underlying Assumptions Regarding Teams

Additional Reading on Appreciative Inquiry

Additional Reading on Positive Psychology

Chapter 2: Planning the Team-Building Session

The Building Better Teams Model

Overview of Five Steps of the Team-Building Process

Additional Reading

Chapter 3: Implementation, Action Planning, and Follow-Up

Steps Four and Five of the Team-Building Process

Chapter 4: Selecting the Right Team-Building Tools

Guidelines for Selecting Tools

Section Two: Managing Team-Building Challenges

Chapter 5: Clarifying Future Direction

The Importance of Establishing Future Direction

How to Tell When This Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Additional Reading

Chapter 6: Fostering Team Innovation

The Importance of Sustaining Team Innovation

How to Tell When This Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Chapter 7: Establishing Mutual Trust and Collaboration

The Importance of Building Trust and Collaboration

How to Tell When This Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Additional Reading

Chapter 8: Managing Change

The Importance of Becoming a Competent Change Manager

How to Tell When This Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Additional Reading

Chapter 9: Building Commitment

The Challenge of Building Commitment

How to Tell When This Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Chapter 10: Managing Organizational Boundaries

Changes That Can Lead to Boundary Tensions

How to Tell When Boundary Management Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Additional Reading

Chapter 11: Working Virtually

The Challenge of Working Virtually

How to Tell When This Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Additional Reading

Chapter 12: Overcoming Setbacks

The Challenge of Team Setbacks

How to Tell When This Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Additional Reading

Chapter 13: Managing Across Cultures

The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Teaming

How We Interpret Communication Cues

How to Tell When This Is a Challenge

The Opportunities Embedded in This Challenge

How to Initiate a Team-Building Session on This Topic

Initiating the Team-Building Session on This Topic

How to Take Supportive Actions

Additional Reading

Section Three: Tools and Techniques for Team Building

Chapter 14: The Tool Kit

Action Planning Chart

After Action Reviews

How to Conduct an AAR

Additional Reading on AARs

Alternative Communication Options

Asynchronous Work Spaces

Baby and Bathwater Technique

Change Analysis Chart

Change Events Technique

Change Management Grid

Closing the Gap Chart

Creative Whack Pack®

Customer Assessment Matrix

Customer Relationship Audit

Customer Requirements Rating Table

Customer Satisfaction/Importance Matrix

Decision Matrix

Early Warning Chart

Follow-Up Team Building Questionnaire

Forecast Grid

Forecast Guide

Gallery Technique

“Getting Naked” Session or New Team Assimilation

The Goals-Values Matrix: A Framework and Tool for Building Collaboration

Group Brainwriting and Electronic Brainstorming

Additional Reading

Group Interaction Matix

Guide for Balancing Team Participation

Guidelines and Questions for Engaging Dialogue

The Human Due Diligence Audit

Idea Rotation

Kill the Critic Exercise

Listening Post Chart

Microanalysis Technique

Mind Maps

Mix and Max

Additional Reading

Multivoting Technique

Needs Checklists for Team Members and Team Leaders

Nominal Group Technique

One-to-Ten Technique

Opportunities Assessment

Opportunities/Threat Matrix

Organizational Social Networking

Plus/Delta Technique

Preventive and Corrective Action Plans

Process Check Sheet

Provocative Questions for Encouraging Dialogue

Real-Time Implementation Planning

Reframing Technique

Relationship Audit

Relationship Map

Running the Gauntlet Technique

Scenario Forecast

Selection Matrix for Virtual Team Members

Stakeholder Analysis Chart

Stakeholder Hats

Team Adaptation Diagram

Team Alignment Pyramid

Team Building Assessment Questionnaire

Team Commitment Audit

Team Decision Style Chart

Team Leader Feedback Questionnaire

Team Scoping Document

Team Sponsor Evaluation Form

Team Sponsor Identification Form

Team Support Chart

Team Vision Summary

Telecommuting Check Sheet

ThoughtOffice™

Threats Analysis

The Traffic Light Technique

Turnaround Feedback

Visual Explorer™

Additional Reading

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Tables

Chapter 3: Implementation, Action Planning, and Follow-Up

Table 3.1 Differences Between Intention and Action

Chapter 4: Selecting the Right Team-Building Tools

Table 4.1 Matching Team Characteristics and Challenges to Facilitation Guidelines and Tools.

Table 4.2 Matching the Team-Building Step to Facilitation Challenges and Representative Tools.

Chapter 9: Building Commitment

Table 9.1. Difference Between Vague Versus Clear Commitment Statements.

List of Illustrations

Chapter 2: Planning the Team-Building Session

Figure 2.1. The Five Steps of the Team-Building Process.

Figure 2.2. The Comparative Advantages of Three Team Assessment Approaches.

Figure 2.3. The Interrelationship Among Team Dynamics, Team Structure and Process, and Team Performance Results.

Chapter 3: Implementation, Action Planning, and Follow-Up

Figure 3.1. The Characteristics of Effective Team Building.

Chapter 14: The Tool Kit

Figure 14.1 Goals-Values Matrix.

Figure 14.2 Small-Group Station and Facilitator.

Figure 14.3 Meeting Facilitator Creating Patterns of Small-Group Reports.

Figure 14.4 Meeting Facilitator Reporting Final Patterns.

Figure 14.5 A

Relationship Map

Model from a Divisional Training Team.

Figure 14.6

Team Alignment Pyramid

Levels and Influences.

Figure 14.7. Dialogue with Visual Explorer™.

Figure 14.8. A Sample of Visual Explorer™ Images.

Figure 14.9 A Collage of the Images Participants Used to Define Leadership, from Their Own Perspectives.

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The Facilitator’s Guide for Building Better Teams: 70 Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Performance Within and Across Teams is available free online. If you would like to download and print out a copy of the guide, please visit: www.wiley.com/college/barner

Building Better Teams

70 Tools and Techniques for Strengthening Performance Within and Across Teams

Robert W. Barner, Ph.D.

Charlotte P. Barner, Ed.D

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barner, Robert (Robert W.)

Building better teams : 70 tools and techniques for strengthening performance within and across teams / Robert W. Barner, Ph.D., Charlotte P. Barner, Ed.D.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-12726-1 (pbk.); ISBN 978-1-118-22488-5 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-23839-4 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-26294-8(ebk)

1. Teams in the workplace. 2. Personnel management. 3. Performance standards. I. Barner, Charlotte P., 1957- II. Title.

HD66.B365 2012

658.4’022—dc23

2012011630

Acquiring Editor: Matthew Davis

Editorial Assistant: Michael Zelenko

Director of Development: Kathleen Dolan Davies

Production Editor: Dawn Kilgore

Editor: Donna Weinson

Manufacturing Supervisor: Becky Morgan

List of Tools

1.

Action Planning Chart

2.

After Action Reviews

3.

How to Conduct an AAR

4.

Alternative Communication Options

5.

Asynchronous Work Spaces

6.

Baby and Bathwater Technique

7.

Change Analysis Chart

8.

Change Events Technique

9.

Change Management Grid

10.

Closing the Gap Chart

11.

Creative Whack Pack

®

12.

Customer Assessment Matrix

13.

Customer Relationship Audit

14.

Customer Requirements Rating Table

15.

Customer Satisfaction/Importance Matrix

16.

Decision Matrix

17.

Early Warning Chart

18.

Follow-Up Team Building Questionnaire

19.

Forecast Grid

20.

Forecast Guide

21.

Gallery Technique

22.

“Getting Naked” Session or New Team Assimilation

23.

The Goals-Values Matrix: A Framework and Tool for Building Collaboration

24.

Group Brainwriting and Electronic Brainstorming

25.

Group Interaction Matrix

26.

Guide for Balancing Team Participation

27.

Guidelines and Questions for Engaging Dialogue

28.

The Human Due Diligence Audit

29.

Idea Rotation

30.

Kill the Critic Exercise

31.

Listening Post Chart

32.

Microanalysis Technique

33.

Mind Maps

34.

Mix and Max

35.

Multivoting Technique

36.

Needs Checklists for Team Members and Team Leaders

37.

Nominal Group Technique

38.

One-to-Ten Technique

39.

Opportunities Assessment

40.

Opportunities/Threat Matrix

41.

Organizational Social Networking

42.

Plus/Delta Technique

43.

Preventive and Corrective Action Plans

44.

Process Check Sheet

45.

Provocative Questions for Encouraging Dialogue

46.

Real-Time Implementation Planning

47.

Reframing Technique

48.

Relationship Audit

49.

Relationship Map

50.

Running the Gauntlet Technique

51.

Scenario Forecast

52.

Selection Matrix for Virtual Team Members

53.

Stakeholder Analysis Chart

54.

Stakeholder Hats

55.

Team Adaptation Diagram

56.

Team Alignment Pyramid

57.

Team Building Assessment Questionnaire

58.

Team Commitment Audit

59.

Team Decision Style Chart

60.

Team Leader Feedback Questionnaire

61.

Team Scoping Document

62.

Team Sponsor Evaluation Form

63.

Team Sponsor Identification Form

64.

Team Support Chart

65.

Team Vision Summary

66.

Telecommuting Check Sheet

67.

ThoughtOffice™

68.

Threats Analysis

69.

The Traffic Light Technique

70.

Turnaround Feedback

71.

Visual Explorer™

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

Figure 2.1

The Five Steps of the Team-Building Process

Figure 2.2

The Comparative Advantages of Three Team Assessment Approaches

Figure 2.3

The Interrelationship Among Team Dynamics, Team Structure and Process, and Team Performance Results

Figure 3.1

The Characteristics of Effective Team Building

Figure 14.1

Goals-Values Matrix

Figure 14.2

Small-Group Station and Facilitator

Figure 14.3

Meeting Facilitator Creating Patterns of Small-Group Reports

Figure 14.4

Meeting Facilitator Reporting Final Patterns

Figure 14.5

A

Relationship Map

Model from a Divisional Training Team

Figure 14.6

Team Alignment Pyramid

Levels and Influences

Figure 14.7

Dialogue with Visual Explorer™

Figure 14.8

A Sample of Visual Explorer™ Images

Figure 14.9

A Collage of the Images Participants Used to Define Leadership, from Their Own Perspectives

Tables

Table 3.1

Differences Between Intention and Action

Table 4.1

Matching Team Characteristics and Challenges to Facilitation Guidelines and Tools

Table 4.2

Matching the Team-Building Step to Facilitation Challenges and Representative Tools

Table 9.1

Difference Between Vague Versus Clear Commitment Statements

Acknowledgments

WE WOULD LIKE to thank the following people for their willingness to contribute their valuable time and energy to make this book a success. This includes: Matthew Davis, senior editor at Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer, for his partnership with us on a creative approach to a team-building manuscript; Michael Zelenko, senior editorial assistant at Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer, for his helpful responses to our questions and offering valuable suggestions; Dawn Kilgore, our highly organized and flexible production editor; and Jennifer Reed, for her time and attention to detail on manuscript assistance.

A special thanks goes to the twelve contributors who volunteered their valuable time and experiences to share the following excellent team building tools and techniques: Ken Cloke and Joan Goldsmith for Turnaround Feedback; Samir Gupte for the “Getting Naked” Session or New Team Assimilation; Ken Ideus for the Goals-Values Matrix; Jonas Janebrant and Johanna Steen for Stakeholder Hats and Idea Rotation; Jim O’Neil for Provocative Questions for Encouraging Dialogue and Guidelines and Questions for Engaging Dialogue; Chuck Palus and David Magellan Horth for Visual Explorer™; Daniel Rainey for Asynchronous Work Spaces; Mary Stall for Mix and Max; and John Sturrock for the Human Due Diligence Audit. Thank you all very much for your patience and assistance on this project. This book is a much more valuable tool as a result of all of your contributions!

About the Authors

ROBERT W. BARNER, PHD, is the associate director of executive education and a full-time faculty member at the Annette Simmons Caldwell School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University. Prior to joining SMU, Robert held senior-level corporate HR positions at several companies, with three of these positions supporting global operations. These roles included responsibilities for career planning, executive development and coaching, the assessment and development of high-potential leaders, and talent management. Robert’s work experience also includes management consulting to such companies as GTE, AT&T, Harris, Disney, TXU, Honeywell, and United Technologies.

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