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Team Building Tools + Tips

Top  Take-aways from the Kick It In and Spark Your Team Event

1. Celebration and fun can be applied to teamwork.
2. Keeping a positive attitude.
3. We must remember that everyone sees situations from a different perspective...and that's okay.
4. F+OLA=Getting it right now (repeat).
5. Celebrate success with positive follow ups to every situation.
6. Try to observe big picture more (O.L.A.) to take ownership with team.
7. Fun-Good-Work I need to have more fun and I need to plan the fun part.
8. Having fun is influenced by how hard you work at it because you work hard and get good at the things you have fun doing.
9. Pay attention and respond appropriately. Be engaged at all times and then do my part in a positive, appropriate manner.
10. Get over the fear of looking stupid and you can accomplish anything. 
11. We need to take some chances as an organization. Stop thinking inside the box because that's how things are always done. Be unafraid to make a mistake because it could lead to something good.

Spark Your Team Activities  (these files are temporarily not available)

Here are the directions to Mark's activities.  These files are Acrobat PDF files.

Balloon Frenzy

Tall Towers

Leadership Moments 

You can use  Leadership Moments in team newsletters , as discussion points at meetings or however you would like

• Sharing Compassion
• Eight Teamwork Recommendations
• The High Road
• 20 Tips for Leaders for Influencing Teams Positively
• Get to Know Each Other:  It Dramatically Changes the Relationship
• Avoiding Groupthink
• General Principles of Good Feedback
• Leading your Team to Greater Civility
• Team Recognition Tips
• 21 Principles of Teams
• Ten Ways to Feel Better About Your Leadership
• 10 Ways to Praise and Recognize Teams
• Positive Emotions
  
• Eight Tactics that Build Strong Team Leadership
• The Power of Our Attitudes

If you would like to receive Leadership Moments, a free weekly e-mail message please send an e-mail to Beth Flynn: flynn.61@osu.edu

Library Resources

The OSU Leadership Center offers a lending library of over 2500+ resources on leadership and management.  To help keep your teams kicking - and to keep the spark lit on your team, check out these books, periodicals and activities.

Books & Periodicals

• HD66.T478 2004: Making the Team: a guide for managers by Leigh L. Thompson
• HD30.26.S837 2005: Games That Boost Performance: 30 ready-to-use group activities by Steve Sugar & Carol Willett
• HD66.R3937 2005: 25 Activities for Developing Team Leaders by John Wiley & Sons Inc.
• HD31.E93 vol.22 2005 & vol.23 2006:Leadership Excellence: the magazine of leadership development, managerial effectiveness, and organizational productivity
• HD66.A12 2005: The 2005 ASTD Team & Organization Development Sourcebook by Patricia Philips
• HD66M375 2004: The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: embrace them and empower your team by John Maxwell
• HD66.B445 2005: Facilitating with Ease!: core skills for facilitators, team leaders, and members, mangers, consultants, and trainers by Ingrid Bens
• HM1261.L43 2005: Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: a field guide for leaders, managers, and facilitators by Patrick Lencioni
• HD31.H3496 2004: Harvard Business Essentials: Managers Toolkit: the 13 skills managers need to succeed by Harvard Business School Press
• HD66.L447 2006: Increasing the Odds for High Performance Teams: lessons learned by Arlen G. Leholm & Raymond Daniel Vlasin
• HD57.7.J68 2008v14,n4: Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
• HD 66.7 S46 2008: Tribal Leadership: leveraging natural groups to build a thriving organization by David Logan & Halee Fischer-Wright
• HD 66 G67 2007: The Energy Bus: 10 rules to fuel your life, work, and team with positive energy by Jon Gordon
• HD 66 R86 2008: Building Conflict Competent Teams by Craig E. Runde & Tim A. Flanagan
• BF576.H35 2009: Handbook for Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence: best practices, case studies, and strategies by James Bradford Terrell

Activities

• HD66.M33 2000: Magic Carpet
• HD66.P37 2000: Pass the Ball
• HD66.A45 2000: Almost Infinite Circle
• HD66.A77 2000: Artist, Model, and Clay
• HD66.R33 2000: Raging River
• HD66.B84 2000: Bull Ring
• HD66.H82 2000: Human Ladder

Links to Additional Websites

If you would like more information about teambuilding - check out the sites below....

Building Dynamic Groups http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~bdg/

ZEA: The Power of Perception http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=13587

Looking @ Leadership  http://www.kickitin.com/looking.html

Complimentary facilitator guide available at
http://secure.ultracart.com/cgi-bin/UCEditor?MERCHANTID=KICK&ADD=PDF025

http://www.thiagi.com
Dr. Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan has published over 40 books, 120 games and simulations, and more than 200 articles. He wrote the definitive chapters on simulations and games for ISPI, ASTD, & AMA.

http://www.albany.edu/cpr/gf/resources/Exercises.html
Ice breakers, energizers, and other experiential exercises from the electronic discussion on group facilitation.

http://www.midwest-facilitators.net
The Midwest Facilitators' Network, a primary source of expertise and information in the Midwest, promotes quality facilitation practices via a non-traditional, non-hierarchical organizational structure.

http://www.iaf-world.org
The International Association of Facilitators promotes supports and advances the art and practice of professional facilitation through methods exchange, professional growth, practical research, collegial networking and support services.

http://www.nasaga.org
The North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) is a growing network of professionals working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of games and simulations to improve learning results in all types of organizations. Started in North America, NASAGA has members from more than 50 countries from around the globe. Membership is open to all.

Learn more about Fran and Mark's work...

You may already be familiar with OSU Leadership Center Advisory Board member Jim Canterucci's Personal Brilliance Podcast. Both of our presenters have been guests. Click to learn more about our great presenters on November 10th; Mark Henson and Fran Kick.

Explore our latest partnership with Emerging Leadership Circle. You have access to a 14 day trial for this video based education site for emerging leaders. Click here.

Also, download the video-enhanced special report 7 Essentials for Emerging Leaders.

Learn more about what Fran and Mark are doing:

Kick It In http://kickitin.com

sparkspace http://sparkspace.com/

Questions and/or ideas to kick it in and keep your team spark alive - contact Beth Flynn: flynn.61@osu.edu 614-292-1251

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Created: 2010-09-03, Updated: 2010-09-03