“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Kenyan Proverb
- Unity is key. Not all people will end up completely satisfied all the time. That’s okay. But remember to take each person’s input and value it. Don’t overstep your boundaries on any level be it leadership or as a team player.
- Remember the GOAL.
“Getting good players is easy. Getting them to play together is the hard part.”Casey Stengel
Essentials of a group
- Social interaction
- Stable structure
- Common interests
- Perceive themselves as part of group
Communication and coordination
- We start or end work sessions with a short reflection, when needed.
- If we feel that we have to talk about something specific with someone, we can allways ask to go one on one with that person and have a personal-feedback-session.
- When we talk with eachother, we try to do it with a positive attitude.
- When we are in the big group we talk in turns, and listen to each other.
Working process
- When we decide a time for a meeting, we respect it and be there in time.
- We have meeting rules: When we start a meeting, we begin to set the time frame of that meeting and what the specific meeting is going to be about.
- We share ideas with each other and have a supportive attitude.
- When someone gives a suggestion regarding ideas regarding the project or giving ideas about the project, we vote on it. Majority of votes wins.
- We make lists of tasks and we choose tasks, that can teach us something new. Which means that we don’t always do the things we have good knowledge in from the beginning. We try new stuff!
- We practice commitment to the work we do, by respecting the tasks – even if we like the tasks or don’t like the tasks.
- Documentation of the process by taking pictures, notes and videos: is everyone’s responsibility.
Roles
- We want to try new and different roles, and therefore we don’t want a fixed hierarchy with the same leader, or the same facilitator and so on…
- We don’t have one leader, we are doing this together as a team and the mission itself is our leader!
- Together we decide WHAT we do and we help each other do decide HOW to do it.
- We help ourselves and each other to keep in mind that we are not in competition with each other.
Fun stuff!
- We use energizers and games for team and trust-building.
- We also have our own things like, “hatehugs” (if one is angry with someone you hug him/her), “lovethumbs” (when ones agree on something someone says, go thumbs up! So you won’t interrupt).
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