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TEAMBUILDER

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BUILDING LINES OF COMMUNICATION

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INSTRUCTIONS – PART 1

10MIN

• Count off 1-7• All members of a team will get the same

color marker (IFs each pick one team)• Start with your corresponding # of poster• Work your way through each of them,

writing your name on each poster where it resonates with you

Questions?

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INSTRUCTIONS – PART 2

15MIN

• As a site-based school team or Ops Team, walk through each of the posters and talk about what you’re seeing (2-3min/poster)– Each person should comment on their

selections

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SHARE OUT

5MIN

• What did you learn?• What surprised you about your

teammates?• How might this inform our work?• What challenges do you perceive?• What strengths did you identify?

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Ops Team Site Visit Reflection/Debrief

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SESSION OBJECTIVES

1. Debrief as a school team SY 13-14’s Ops Team Site Visits protocols and practices

2. Share team reflections to inform new protocols for SY14-15.

3. Identify the best time for site-based teams to meet and suggestions for ops-team site visits

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WHY REFLECT ON/DEBRIEF OPS TEAM SITE VISITS?

• Good GREAT• Increase effectiveness• Reduce potential for disagreement• Proactive vs. Reactive• MAUMS

Mutually Agreed Upon Measures of

Success

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TEAM TIME!

• Teams (school teams and Ops/Exec) should be sitting together

• Reflect (individually) – 5min– Think about the best Ops-Team Site Visit you

were a part of in the last few years – What made that meeting effective?

Successful??– Jot down as many characteristics/group

dynamics that you think contributed to these feelings of belonging/success

– Do the same, but thinking about the WORST one…

– Do the same for your site-team weekly meetings

5MIN

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TEAM TIME!

11MIN

• Assign a scribe to take down the team’s thoughts– Next birthday?

• Brainstorm as a team (5min)– No need to explain in detail each

practice/protocol/dynamic– All ideas get written down

• Go through the list and have each person explain their contributions (3min)

• How do you think the Ops-Team’s site visits might support your site-based work? (3min)

• Do the same for your site-team weekly meetings

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SHARE OUT

• Based on your brainstorm and debrief, what are the key takeaways? AHA! Moments? (10min)

10MIN

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LINES OF COMMUNICATION

• Review your team’s Lines of Communication Results from earlier – 5min

5MIN

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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

• Identify (5min):– LEAST PREFERRED days/times for site-based team

meetings– LEAST PREFERRED days/times/weeks for Ops-Team

Site Visits

• Identify (5min):– TWO MOST PREFERRED windows for your weekly

site-based team meetings Commit to at least a weekly day/time

– TWO MOST PREFERRED windows for your Ops-Team Site Visits Day of the week? Time of the day? Which week of the

month?

10MIN

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SHARE OUT

• Share Out (6min):» JEMS

– When will your site-team meet? For how long? Day: Mondays Time: 9:30am-10:30am Day: Bi-weekly data meetings: 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month

(9:30am-10:30am)

– What are the best/worst time windows for ops-team site visits? WORST: Day: 1st/3rd Thurs of the month or Weds Time: 9:30am-

10:30am BEST: Day: 2nd/4th Thurs of the month Time: 12:00pm-

1:00pm» NHS

– When will your site-team meet? For how long? Day: Thursdays Time: 9:43am-10:30am

– What are the best/worst time windows for ops-team site visits? WORST: Day: Wednesday/Fridays Time: any times BEST: Day: 2nd/4th Thursdays of the month Time: 9:43am-

10:30am

6MIN