1. Teams and Team Building
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY (IBT)
Teams and Team Building

2. Objectives Review team courtesy and communication
Warm Up | Objectives
Objectives
Review team courtesy and communication
Identify strengths as a team member
Identify key team members and roles

3. What Is Teamwork? Why do we work on teams? What makes a team work?
Warm Up | Good Teamwork Makes a Difference
What Is Teamwork?
Why do we work on teams?
What makes a team work?

4. Strategies for Teambuilding
Activity 1
Strategies for Teambuilding

5. Effective Team Behavior
Activity 1 | Strategies for Teambuilding
Effective Team Behavior
Respect everyone on your team
Earn the respect of your team
Contribute ideas
Explain your ideas persuasively, but be open to the ideas of others
Keep the team goal in mind

6. The 4 C’s: Valuable Skills
Activity 1 | Strategies for Teambuilding
The 4 C’s: Valuable Skills
Communication
Collaboration
Creativity
Critical Thinking

7. Communication Strategies
Activity 1 | Strategies for Teambuilding
Communication Strategies
Ask questions
Listen actively
Offer your ideas
Communication
Collaboration
Creativity
Critical Thinking

8. Collaboration Strategies
Activity 1 | Strategies for Teambuilding
Collaboration Strategies
Ask questions
Listen actively
Offer your ideas
Share skills and talents
Compromise
Find solutions together
Communication
Collaboration
Creativity
Critical Thinking

9. Critical Thinking Strategies
Activity 1 | Strategies for Teambuilding
Critical Thinking Strategies
Ask questions
Listen actively
Offer your ideas
Share skills and talents
Compromise
Find solutions together
Communication
Collaboration
Take a new perspective
Bring in ideas from multiple subjects
Creativity
Critical Thinking

10. Strategies for Boosting Creativity
Activity 1 | Strategies for Teambuilding
Strategies for Boosting Creativity
Ask questions
Listen actively
Offer your ideas
Share skills and talents
Compromise
Find solutions together
Communication
Collaboration
Take a new perspective
Bring in ideas from multiple subjects
Try new things
Innovate
Invent
Creativity
Critical Thinking

11. Activity 1 | Strategies for Teambuilding
Workplace Role Play
Pick one strategy from each of the 4 C’s to use in your scenario.
Write a script of how the amusement park team can use the strategy to solve their problem.
Role play your strategies for the class.

12. Activity 2
Paper Clip Innovation

13. Team Roles Timekeeper Leader Artist/Designer Presenter Researcher
Activity 2 | Paper Clip Innovation
Team Roles
Timekeeper
Leader
Artist/Designer
Presenter
Researcher
Recorder

14. Paper Clip Challenge Assign team roles.
Activity 2 | Paper Clip Innovation
Paper Clip Challenge
Assign team roles.
Brainstorm uses for paper clips.
Select one idea that could be the basis of a new product or service.
Prototype your idea.
Prepare a 30-second presentation of your idea.

15. Wrap Up
Join the Team

16. “All for one and one for all!”
Wrap Up | Join the Team
Join the Team
“All for one and one for all!”
Teamwork is a critical career skill.
Valuable team members respect their teammates.
Each team member has a unique role that contributes to the success of the whole.
What role(s) do you see yourself playing, now and in the future?