Team Building in a Project Environment...Team Building in a Project Environment: Kindergarten Skills You Can Use! PMI KC Mid America Chapter October 2015 SEBA ®Solutions Inc. (321)

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:)


Emotional

� I adjust easily to new situations

� I exercise self discipline

� I accept suggestions


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� I attempt to solve problems independently


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


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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