Team Building, Motivating Members, and Increasing

Awareness

2009 Centralia Hosted “Hot Tea, Cool Conversations”

Team Building

• It is important to Recognize each others strengths and weaknesses and utilize them

• Trust, courtesies, and establishing routine procedures are key for effective team building

• Create a team with unity of purpose

• Start with a famous quote and go around the table to discuss what that quote means to each person

• Perform a group exercise that requires problem solving and cooperation

• Use a page from a brain teaser book to challenge members to work together

Team Building Exercises:

Motivating Members

• Member of the Month• Highlight the Member of the Month on the

website and in the newsletter• Enhanced Membership• Encourage members to chair events• Ask for membership input

• Member Appreciation Dinner/BBQ• Member Mentors• One sheet Welcome Letter to the new

members• Create awareness and encourage scholarships

available to Phi Theta Kappa Members

Creating Awareness

• Phi Theta Kappa Posters• Faculty Mentor Program• Club Fair Table• Create a Website• Send Newsletter to Students who are eligible• Student Government

Brainstorming….

Does your chapter do something that is not mentioned here?

Please share……