1. Strategies for Building an Effective Team April 23, 2015

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4. WELCOME
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5. THE PURPOSE OF THIS WEBINAR
Participants will learn basic strategies for building effective teams and will share their experience with teams in their self advocacy organization.

6. PRESENTERS
OCSS staff

7. POLL QUESTION #1
Does your statewide self advocacy organization have the team skills it needs to be successful?

8. Teambuilding Strategies
Communication
Purpose of your organization
Your organization’s goals and objectives
Experience and skills
Being Respectful

9. Communication
Great communication keeps team members from giving up on the project because they don’t understand the whole purpose. Example: Have meeting to discuss activity progress Stay connected by or phone

10. Purpose of your organization
What is your organization’s mission statement
What is your organization's vision statement

11. Your organization’s goals and objectives
Review:
Goal is the long term vision of your organization (1-3 goals)
Objective is a short term activities to reach that goal (steps to work on goals)

12. Experience and skills
The purpose of putting a team together, is to group together people that have specific skills to complete a specific project. You can pick people you know are hard workers or give new members a chance to learn and to contribute to the team. Learn from each other

13. Being Respectful
For a group a people to function as a productive team, there has to be a commitment from each team member to the team.

14. Your role on the team
The hardest attitude to understand is that your role on a team “it’s not about you.” It is about doing the job you have on this project’s team to accomplish the goal.

15. Every role on the team is important
You will be a part of many projects
You will have many chances to be in difference roles on the team
Sometimes you will lead, sometimes support, but you will always be important to the success of the team

16. When team members don’t feel valued
Did we give people the ok to do more? Or did we say you only need to bring some plates, napkins and drinks to the event. Then, get mad when they show up with only that.
What about “I went ahead and did it.” You ask a committee to design the flyer. They complete it by the next meeting. You got nervous and made your own. You look at their draft, say, “that’s great. But, I think we will use the one I created. Don’t you think it is much better?”
It may be faster to do it yourself but what are the cost to the team?

17. You can help the project succeed
Be honest about what you can do, don’t promise more than you have time to give If someone doesn’t do their work the project, someone else will have to do it If you know you need some help to complete an activity “speak up” while there is still time for the group to make a better match to your skills

18. What can you do? What areas as a team player can you improve on?
What areas in your work or personal life can you see the value of team building?

19. OCSS STATES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

20. STATE QUESTIONS
1. Has your self advocacy organization ever attended a team building training before? 2. Rate your self advocacy group’s team effectiveness and why. STRONG OKAY NEEDS WORK COULD BE BETTER

21. ALABAMA COMMENTS
Attended training N, not recently Rate: OKAY Why: we come together and come up with ideas, complete our goals, sometimes members follow through

22. ARKANSAS COMMENTS
Attended training N Rate: NEEDS WORK Why: because of communication problems, we are not together, no clear mission and goals for the group

23. FLORIDA COMMENTS
Attended training Y Rate: STRONG Why: we work together, attended training on important issues such transportation and employment

24. GEORGIA COMMENTS
Attended training Y Rate: STRONG Why: we work together, at our regular board meetings, long road home

25. NORTH CAROLINA COMMENTS
Attended training Y or N Rate: Why:

26. OKLAHOMA COMMENTS Attended training Y Rate: STRONG
Why: we go to capital, rally together, advocate for our groups with each other, the SALT training has helped

27. SOUTH CAROLINA COMMENTS
Attended training N, as of yet Rate: STRONG, NEEDS WORK Why: monthly meetings, bring ideas at the table and discuss at the group and our participation, focus our objectives and vote on what we want to do, need members to be more engaged and be a part of the team

28. TENNESSEE COMMENTS
Attended training: I don’t know Rate: OKAY Why: all of the people involved invested in working well together

29. DATES TO REMEMBER

30. DATES TO REMEMBER
July 5 Submit 3nd Quarter Invoice, 2nd Vlog due and quarterly report on progress on Plan September 17 Advisory Meeting-GoToMeeting September 19 Submit 4th Quarter Invoice quarterly report on Plan

31. Next OCSS Webinars 3:30 p.m. EST 2:30 p.m. CST
Webinar dates
Topic
June 18, 2015
Strategies for Membership Recruitment
July 16, 2015
Steps in Organizing Around an Issue
August 20, 2015
Partnerships Outside of the Disability Community
September 2015
Institutions

32. THANK YOU!
Regional Self Advocacy Technical Assistance Center Funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.