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Identify and engage a real-life group or team for two sessions
Preparation
Selecting the Team
Identify and engage a real-life group or team that you can work with in two sessions, to conduct two team development exercises. Select a problem or issue within the group that the team can work on, using the exercise you have chosen. The goal of each session is to bring team to this issue, rather than to solve identified problem.
Your team should consist of individuals from your workplace, or with whom you have a professional relationship. If this is difficult to arrange, there is flexibility as to both group composition and mode of communication. You can simulate an organizational team with members drawn from a social organization to which you belong; a church, community, or civic group; a private club; or a group of personal friends, acquaintances, or even family members. As part of your final assessment, you will make hypothetical recommendations to a specific audience, based on the results of your two sessions. Ideally, this audience would be the larger organization in which the team functions, but it could also be to the session team itself, members of an educational symposium, or another relevant group.
Team should be five people, more than 10 can make the exercise hard.
Identify and engage a real-life group or team for two sessions
Selecting the Exercise
In each team change management session, you will conduct an exercise based on one of the concepts and tools from Peter Senge’s five disciplines. Choose the disciplines your team will focus on from the following options:
For your first session, lead your group through a team exercise based on the personal mastery discipline, the mental models discipline, or the shared visions discipline.
Secondly, lead your group through a team exercise based on the team learning discipline or the systems thinking discipline.
Use your judgment in choosing each exercise, based on the suitability of its goals to the nature of the team.
Recruiting the Team
When recruiting your team for each session, introduce yourself. Briefly explain the your task, the time commitment required (two one-hour sessions), and that you will be reporting your results on the experience. Indicate that you will protect all team members’ personal information and also identities. In your explanation of the task, include a brief overview of both sessions. Schedule each session to last at least an hour.
