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Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Hands-On ... - always yours

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TEAMWORK AND COLLABORATION TOOLS AND STRATEGIES 175<br />

TIME FRAME: 2 hours<br />

MATERIALS NEEDED<br />

White board or fl ip chart and pens<br />

PROCEDURE<br />

Focus: After 12 minutes ask the small group how they felt doing<br />

the exercise, especially if they were not successful.<br />

• What did the curve of their energy and focus look like?<br />

• Was it:<br />

▲ Constantly going up?<br />

▲ Did it plateau?<br />

▲ Did it dip and go down?<br />

• Would they want their team or staff to respond in this way<br />

to a hard project?<br />

Metaphor: Have each small group recreate the design or pattern<br />

in front of them, even if they didn’t get the answer initially. (Usually<br />

you will have to create it and have them copy it.) Ask: “What do you<br />

notice about this pattern?”<br />

Sample responses:<br />

• It is a picture of interdependence.<br />

• <strong>On</strong>e defi nition of a team is a group of people who “hang<br />

together well,” just like you see <strong>with</strong> this design.<br />

• Each nail can represent your team members or your departments<br />

and how they fit or “hang together,” relying on one<br />

another.<br />

Consensus Exercise: If the nail in the wood represented the<br />

key foundation or ingredient that holds the whole team together,<br />

what does that nail represent?

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