Leading Productive Teams MSL 630 Hall # 1 The Riddle of Teams: What are the pros and cons? 1 Welcome to MSL 630 2 Format for Hall sessions • Introduction of the Hall • Hall Topics • Christian worldview applications • Major points for the week’s learning 3 Learning tools • Hall lectures ▫ Hearing and seeing • Text book ▫ Reading • Individual homework ▫ Analyzing • Discussion forum ▫ Applying and Examining • Completing all components is very important to accomplish the objectives of the course. 4 Asynchronous learning • Motivated ▫ Asynchronous learners must be highly self-motivated • Responsible ▫ Asynchronous learners must have high responsibility for assignments and discussion • Facts ▫ Asynchronous learning is not easier than traditional classroom learning ▫ Learners must meet deadlines ▫ It’s easy to think we’re anonymous because there’s no face time. 5 Tips for success • Course Page ▫ Activities  Individual homework  Team activities ▫ Discussion forum  Weekly discussion ▫ Media  Syllabus  Handouts & links  Hall lectures • Schedule ▫ Be attentive to deadlines ▫ The week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday  Observe Sabbath  Manage your time 6 Tips for success (cont.) • Do not procrastinate ▫ It’s easy to get behind in an asynchronous course  False security that there is time to catch up  Each week builds on the previous • Sequence ▫ Set your schedule  Hall lecture  Assigned reading  Discussion  Homework  Individual or team  Study key points for exam 7 Tips for success (cont.) • Communicate ▫ Ask questions ▫ Participate ▫ Be engaged in discussion ▫ Seek handouts ▫ Contact the professor with questions or problems 8 Topics we’ll cover in MSL 630 • Best Practices • Solving Team Problems • Motivation and Leadership • Creativity/ Diversity Issues • Virtual Teams • Team Simulations 9 10 Biblical Foundation: Matt 28:19-20 Hall Objectives • Why Teams? • Types of Teams • Collaborative Projects through Teamwork • Productive Team Characteristics • Developing Team Building Skills • Project Teams at Belhaven 11 Questions for Reflection & Study • Why are teams useful? • What are some common types of teams? • How can collaborative projects be completed through teamwork? • What makes a productive team? • What skills can be developed to improve teams? • What are some tips for Project teams at Belhaven? 12 5 Key Characteristics of Teams • Exist to achieve a shared goal • Members are interdependent regarding a common goal • Are bounded and remain relatively stable over time • Members have the authority to manage their own work and internal processes • Operate in a larger social system context 13 4 Challenges to Future Teams • Customer service focus • Competition • Emergence of the information age • Globalization 14 Types of Teams • Manager-led teams • Self-managing ...

1. Leading Productive Teams
MSL 630
Hall # 1
The Riddle of Teams: What are the pros and cons?
1
Welcome to MSL 630
2
Format for Hall sessions
• Introduction of the Hall
• Hall Topics
• Christian worldview applications
• Major points for the week’s learning
3
Learning tools

2. • Hall lectures
▫ Hearing and seeing
• Text book
▫ Reading
• Individual homework
▫ Analyzing
• Discussion forum
▫ Applying and Examining
• Completing all
components is very
important to
accomplish the
objectives of the
course.
4
Asynchronous learning
• Motivated
▫ Asynchronous
learners must be
highly self-motivated
• Responsible
▫ Asynchronous
learners must have

3. high responsibility
for assignments and
discussion
• Facts
▫ Asynchronous learning is
not easier than
traditional classroom
learning
▫ Learners must meet
deadlines
▫ It’s easy to think we’re
anonymous because
there’s no face time.
5
Tips for success
• Course Page
▫ Activities
▫ Discussion forum

4. ▫ Media
• Schedule
▫ Be attentive to
deadlines
▫ The week begins on
Monday and ends on
Sunday
6
Tips for success (cont.)
• Do not procrastinate
▫ It’s easy to get behind
in an asynchronous
course
there is time to catch
up

5. the previous
• Sequence
▫ Set your schedule
exam
7
Tips for success (cont.)
• Communicate
▫ Ask questions
▫ Participate
▫ Be engaged in
discussion

6. ▫ Seek handouts
▫ Contact the professor
with questions or
problems
8
Topics we’ll cover in MSL 630
• Best Practices
• Solving Team Problems
• Motivation and Leadership
• Creativity/ Diversity Issues
• Virtual Teams
• Team Simulations
9
10
Biblical Foundation: Matt 28:19-20
Hall Objectives

7. • Why Teams?
• Types of Teams
• Collaborative Projects through Teamwork
• Productive Team Characteristics
• Developing Team Building Skills
• Project Teams at Belhaven
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Questions for Reflection & Study
• Why are teams useful?
• What are some common types of teams?
• How can collaborative projects be completed
through teamwork?
• What makes a productive team?
• What skills can be developed to improve teams?
• What are some tips for Project teams at
Belhaven?
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8. 5 Key Characteristics of Teams
• Exist to achieve a shared goal
• Members are interdependent regarding a
common goal
• Are bounded and remain relatively stable over
time
• Members have the authority to manage their
own work and internal processes
• Operate in a larger social system context
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4 Challenges to Future Teams
• Customer service focus
• Competition
• Emergence of the information age
• Globalization
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Types of Teams
• Manager-led teams

9. • Self-managing or self-regulating teams
• Self-directing or self-designing teams
• Self-governing teams
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Authority of Four Illustrative Types
of Work Teams
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Design of the
organizational context
Design of the team as a
performing unit
Monitoring and
managing performance
processes
Executing the task
Area of Management
Responsibility

10. Area of Team
Responsibility
Manager-led
work teams
Self-
managing
work teams
Self-designing
work teams
Self-governing
work teams
Source: Hackman, J. R. (1987). The design of work teams. In
J.W. Lorsch (Ed.), Handbook of Organizational Behavior. Upper
Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
Observations about Teams and
Teamwork
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11. • Companies that use teams are not more effective than those
that do not
• Managers fault the wrong causes for team failure
(misattribution error)
• Managers fail to recognize their team-building responsibilities
• Experimenting with failures leads to better teams
• Conflict among teams members is not always a bad thing
• Strong leadership is not always necessary for strong teams
• Good teams can still fail under the wrong circumstances
• Retreats will not fix all conflicts between team members
Exhibit 1-6. Team Autonomy
versus Manager Control
55%
39%
6%
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13. Tools for teams. Kellogg Executive program.
Exhibit 1-7. Team Longevity
7%
16%
23%
15%
40%
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10%
20%
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50%
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Source: Thompson, L. (2006). Leading high impact teams:
Tools for teams. Kellogg Executive program.
Most Frustrating Aspects of Teams
56%
43%
37%

15. 32%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Developing/sustaining high motivation
Minimizing confusion/coordination problems
Fostering creativity/innovation
Developing clear goals
Developing Your Skills
Skill #1: Accurate diagnosis
of team problems
Skill #2: Theory-based
intervention
Skill #3: Expert learning

16. 7 Advantages of Teamwork
• Increased resources
• Buy-in
• Built –in Censor
• Encourage Cross training
• More people for follow up responsibility
• It’s fun!
• It’s Biblical !
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Increased Resources
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Buy-In
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Built-in Censor

17. 25
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Encourage Cross Training
More follow up
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It’s Fun!
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It’s Biblical !
Team Problems
Lack of Experience
Lack of a Common Model
Lack of Understanding of relationship skills

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Tips for Collaborative Projects
• Generate ideas
• Organize information
• Draft
• Revise and Edit
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Collaborative Projects(cont.)
• Assemble team according to expertise
• What, When, Why, How Much, Who?
• Generate ideas
• Organize ideas into an Outline
• Evaluate outline with help of stakeholders
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Collaborative Projects (cont.)

19. • Discuss and undertake the research process
• Discuss and undertake the drafting process
• Evaluate the first draft with help of the
Stakeholders
• Revise the draft for consistency and impact
• Edit to achieve ERROR-FREE text
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Common Complaints
• “No one ever listens to me”
• “Who made you the boss?”
• “What are we waiting for?”
• “Where do you get off telling me I’m wrong?”
• “I don’t understand your changes”
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Creating Effective Study Groups,
Part I

20. • Early on: Structured exercise
• During the first week or two: Discussion
• Team contract
• Team goals
• Thought questions
• Person-task mapping
Creating Effective Study Groups,
Part II
• Additional discussion questions
• Member skills
• Person-task focus
• Structure
• Interlopers
• Communication standards
• Project leader pacing
Creating Effective Study Groups,
Part III

21. • After group is well underway
• Team assessment
• Peer-feedback performance review
• On a regular basis: Revisiting team contract
• Are expectations being met?
• What issues should be added to contract?
• What issues in contract don’t seem relevant?
Team Nehemiah
• Nehemiah 1-13
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Questions for Reflection & Study
• What are some advantages of teams?
• Why are some collaborative projects frustrating?
• How can team building skills be improved?
• What are some tips for effective study groups?
• How did Nehemiah build an effective team to
rebuild the wall in Jerusalem?

22. What next?
• Take the Hall Quiz
• Complete your detailed reading
• Answer the discussion questions
• Complete the writing assignments
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References
• Bell, A.H. and Smith, D.M. (2011). Learning
Team Skills (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
• Mosely, Curt (2005). TeamWeaver: The 10
Greatest Teams in the Bible and Why They
Were Great. Mustang,OK:Tate Publishing.
• Thompson, L.L. (2008). Making the Team (3rd
ed) . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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End of Hall 1
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23. ▫ Passion +
▫ Prayer+
▫ Persistence
= Productive Teams
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This concludes Hall 1