1. Pathfinder Instructor’s Award

2. Optional: Team Building
Define your team.
Do not compete with other teams.
Define your style together.
How autonomous is each member?
How many decisions must be by consensus?
What are the rights and responsibilities of the leader?
Identify possible difficulties.
Are there members who will find interdependence hard?
Are there exterior pressures to consider?
Are the goals clear?
Are there unresolved conflicts?
How will effective communication take place?

3. Optional: Team Building
Rate each aspect of your team.
Mission
Objective
Trust
Meetings
Initiative
Conflict management
Communication
Support
Effective leader
Spend extra time on the best and worst.

4. Optional: Team Building
Create expectations about how team members work together.
Choleric
Get results
Do not intimidate
Melancholy
Keep high standards
Avoid criticism
Sanguine
Lead communication
Avoid disorganization
Phlegmatic
Ensure cooperation
Allow changes as needed

5. Optional: Team Building
Create a framework for cooperation.
Resolving conflict
How promptly shall we expect reconciliation
How shall we point out mistakes
How much flexibility shall we all have
What process shall we use for intractable issues
How shall we describe helpful behaviour during conflict

6. Optional: Team Building
Identify roles on the team.
Needed roles
Ideas generator
Strengths and weaknesses analyzer
Conflict mediator
Summarizer
Elaborator
Leader
Implementer
Cheerleader

7. Optional: Team Building
Initiate ways to celebrate progress.
Visual
Charts
Data
Social
Parties
Public thanks
Public rewards
Private thanks
Cards
Gift cards
Testimonials
Spoken
Written

8. Optional: Team Building
Initiate ways to celebrate progress.
Visual
Charts
Data
Social
Parties
Public thanks
Public rewards
Private thanks
Cards
Gift cards
Testimonials
Spoken
Written

9. Optional: Team Building
Respect personality strengths.
Respect cultural strengths.
Respect leadership style.

10. Optional: Team Building
Respect personality strengths.
Work to have people with many types of personalities on the team
Assign roles to use each member’s strengths
Put people with complementary strengths together
Remind the group of each other’s strengths– especially during confrontations
Celebrate various personalities

11. Optional: Team Building
Respect cultural strengths.
Encourage cultural flavour in how each member does the job
Seek alternative ways to accomplish familiar tasks
Ask members for different ways cultures deal with the situation
Have celebrations of different cultures

12. Optional: Team Building
Respect leadership style.
Use the strengths of the leader
Have team members help the leader with his/her weak areas
Insist on a team concept
Allow for leader’s need to feel ownership

13. Optional: Team Building
Appreciate each member.
Encourage informal thanks
Find formal ways to thank each one
Reward according to each one’s personality
Avoid competition for reward
Never forget to thank God.

14. Optional: Team Building
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