Students will implement their first skills of Team Building.  They will work in teams throughout the duration of the six week PILOT PROGRAM.

They will understand the importance of – DELEGATING RESPONSIBILITIES, IDENTIFYING CORE COMPETENCIES, TIME MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTABILITY, & QUALITY CONTROL.

 

WEEK 1

Thinking Process – Do Meaningful Market Research

Thinking Process – Identify your Target Market

WEEK 2

HWK RESULTS – Meaningful Market Research

HWK RESULTS – Target Market

QUESTIONS:
1.How did you go about selecting which Market/Industry you were going to research?
2.How did you identify your Target Audience?
3.What are your findings?

DISCUSSION: How do we decide if to proceed with making a product or service offering? What are the ingredients?

WEEK 2

HWK Assignment – Select a company (mentioned in our discussion and the video), where timing was a key factor to their success.

HWK Research Assignment – The company you’ve selected, does the core team still comprise of its founding members?  If not, why do you believe they’ve changed or remain the same.  What makes that synergy work or not work?

The Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model

7 Stages of Team Development

STAGE 1: ORIENTATION – Why am I here?

STAGE 2: TRUST BUILDING – Who are you?

STAGE 3: GOAL CLARIFICATION – What are we doing?

STAGE 4: COMMITMENT – How will we do it?

STAGE 5: IMPLEMENTATION – Who does what, when and where?

STAGE 6: HIGH PERFORMANCE – WOW! – Flexibility, intuitive communication, synergy.

STAGE 7: RENEWAL – Why continue? – Recognition, change mastery, staying power.