Leading Reluctant Team Members

Kathleen Harris

Desired OutcomesParticipants:

• Recognize the advantage of functioning in highly effective cross disciplinary teams in NAF academies

• Explain how teams functioning as communities of practice can enhance the students’ experience and increase student achievement

• Demonstrate empathy for the concerns of teachers reluctant to engage in true teaming

• Devise strategies for addressing reluctant teachers’ concerns and provide meaningful incentives to increase their involvement

Teaming in NAF Academies1. How critical are highly effective cross-

disciplinary teams to the quality of a NAF Academy?

2. How do student benefit from highly functional academies teams?

3. How do teachers benefit?

Characteristics of a Community of Practice

• Shared norms, beliefs, vision and outcomes

• Reflective discussions that allow individuals to talk about their challenges and their victories

• Collective focus on student learning

• New approaches to staff development that lead to common language, shared understandings about teaching and learning and calibration of student work

“Real change begins with the simple act of people talking about what they care about.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

“Vision is the single most empowering and motivating factor in human organizations. It can bond diverse people together.”

Warren Bennis

VISION MISSION

OUTCOMES

“It is not a shared vision until it connects with the personal visions of people throughout the organization” Peter

Senge

Team Members May Need to Know…

Why should I participate? What is expected of me?

What is the reward?

Where are we headed?

How am I/we doing?

How can I improve?

Motivation Preference Survey

Please complete the motivation survey by putting a check next to those statement that

describe you in most situations, not just sometimes.

10

Motivation Preferences-It’s all about…People and Relationships

Things and Function

Creativity and Expression

Discovery and

Processes

What What if…

Why

Who How

Motivation and Buy-in

12

Why should I care…

I’ll do it if I can…..

I might be persuaded if……

Is my time well spent….

Are we better together….

“Coming together is a beginning.

Keeping together is progress.

Working together is success.”

John C. Maxwell

“Blessed are the flexibleFor they shall not get bent

out of shape!”