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Team Spark: Proverb - Working Together You Can Achieve More

Spark team communication on how we can work better as a team when we face our large projects.

Topic: Teamwork Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - You Are Limited by What Ties You Down

Spark team communication on how have we faced limitations in the past and yet overcome them.

Topic: Collaboration Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Teach Team Shorthand to New Team Members

Most work teams tend to develop their own compressed language that allows team members to communicate quickly and easily with each other. When outsiders join the team, this shorthand may be hard to understand or learn, resulting in conflict and frustration, especially if people are from different cultural backgrounds.

Topic: Communication Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Discussion Trigger, Interpersonal Skills, Team Builder, Teamwork

Team Spark: Tell Stories to Build Strong Communities

Storytelling is at the heart of what makes us human and is a universal tool used by groups of people to explain who they are and the experiences that shaped their history. While we might not use cave drawings anymore, we still use storytelling to capture collective histories and lessons learned.

Team Spark: Understand Your Expertise

Diverse teams with members from different backgrounds will offer an even greater variety of expertise and personalities. While it may take an increased amount of respect and awareness to work in concert, the team has a greater potential for victory.

Team Spark: Use a Mediator to Help Stalemates

Asking for the assistance of a “referee” or a neutral, third party colleague, may provide the necessary insight to tease out the cause of the miscommunication, which could be rooted in cultural, generational, or personality style differences.

Team Spark: Use Intuition to Foster Better Teamwork

When you devote time and effort to communicating with a colleague, especially one from a background different than your own, you can improve the fluency of your communication and eventually be able to detect minute changes in these communications.

The Cultural Competence Matrix

The Cultural Competence Matrix shows the stages we move through in developing cultural competence.

Topic: Cultural Competency & Sensitivity Learning Path: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Culture Commitment, Discussion Trigger, Diversity Dynamics, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Interpersonal Skills, Learning Reinforcement, Retention Aid, Training Support

Tips for Working with Every Generation

Want a quick summary of proven tips for working effectively with ANY generation? This is the handout for you! Everyone wants to be treated with respect—and recognize that respect might look and feel different, based on differing experiences and perspectives.

Topic: Communication Learning Path: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Discussion Trigger, Generational Challenges, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Interpersonal Skills, Respect / Respectfulness, Retention Aid, Training Support

Ultimatum Game: Understanding Fairness & Inclusion

The first ultimatum game was developed as a stylized representation of negotiation, by Güth, Schmittberger, and Schwarze in 1982. It has since become a popular economic experiment. It has been adapted in this activity to illustrate the role fairness plays in influencing our reactions and decisions.

Topic: Inclusion / Equity / Belonging Learning Path: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Discussion Trigger, Diversity Dynamics, Team Builder or Retention Aid, Training Support

Understanding Difficult People

This is a great exercise to introduce the concept of the different types (in the 'difficult' range) of people we'll most often interact with in the workplace.

Topic: Interpersonal Skills Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Collaboration, Communication, Discussion Trigger, Professionalism, Teamwork

Using Your Senses

Participants will be made more fully aware of how things can be when everyone at the organization is on the “same page.”

Topic: Culture Commitment Learning Paths: Leadership, Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Energizer or Team Builder, Training Support

Working With All Generations

Based on several interactive case studies on generations, this training activity gives each person in the session an opportunity to practice using the M.E.E.T.™ model to help us communicate effectively.

Topic: Inclusion / Equity / Belonging Learning Path: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Communication, Culture Commitment, Generational Challenges, Interpersonal Skills, Retention Aid, Training Support