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We're creating a scenario for a small team to go through, with biographies of characters. When a team conducts the exercise they assume the identity of the bio and assign the tasks based off the information in the bio. So what we are doing is creatively coming up with the team members bios, as well as the tasks that need to be assigned. The goal is to facilitate discussion of the team members revealing personal information and identifying the primary and secondary person to work together on each task

Assignment: create one or two bios, and two tasks that they will need to discuss and assign to the team members

Team Dysfunction Exercise Outline – Group #2

Reading Lencioni’s book, as well as the concept of teaming from Amy Edmonson, the initial step to conquering a dysfunction of a team is building trust. Ensuring that team members can work together and rely on each other for specialized skills. To accomplish this, our group is creating an exercise that allows team members to act as a provided character and assign tasks to a primary and secondary individual to accomplish the task.

Task: Assign Team members a character from the list of biographies. With this character and reading the scenario, work together as a team to assign the list of tasks to each team member. Every task must be assigned to a primary and secondary person to ensure teamwork and effective brainstorming to accomplish every task. Rely on professional and personal experience to identify the best person for each task.

Scenario: The CEO assembled you as a special team of MiracleTrips. The organization works to plan and resource the requirements to provide an exciting trip to veterans to remote places of the world. One of the trips we recently organized is currently ongoing as a summit of Mount Denali in Alaska. The tour guide reported yesterday that they are in need of a rescue from the side of the mountain. In order to succeed the CEO assembled you to provide the best group of people from within the organization. You are identified as successful individuals from within your own departments that can provide the best solution to this tragedy.

Character Biographies:

Angela Matthews – Grew up in Pacific Northwest, studied journalism at University of Washington, currently works in the Public Relations Department as a senior manager. Primary hobbies are hiking and assisting the local volunteer emergency services team as the Public Relations Specialist. Experienced in communicating status of rescue operations to the organization. Has a husband, Mark, and two middle school aged girls. She considers her defining life event was getting lost on a hike during a college break in the Colorado Rockies. After being rescued, she focused her life to support others like she was supported.

David Small – A lic

Using Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions of a Team" your team must develop an exercise which demonstrates one of the dysfunctions.  A famous example of the "Lack of Trust" dysfunction is the falling back into someone else's arms exercise; an example of the "Inattention to Results" dysfunction could be the "Telephone" exercise where the leader of the exercise whispers something in one person's ear and then he/she whispers it to another and so on and seeing how close or far it comes out when the last person has to say the phrase or sentence out loud.