-The following is an article from "Living Your Leadership Legacy." A newsletter published by Competitive Solutions, Inc.
Helping Your Teams Reach Their Goals
Goals are a good way to help teams successfully achieve their mission. They also help judge how they are doing and where they stand in the development process. If teams are achieving their team goals, then they are doing their part to help the facility succeed. Teams can learn from one another and should share success when achieving business goals. Use the following example as an ice breaker and follow up with a debrief.
• Write the word ‘leadership’ on several flip charts around the room. There should be enough flip charts with the word so the class can be broken into groups of about five.
• Next, explain the mission for each group is to come up with as many words as it can using all the letters in the word ‘leadership.’ Some examples include: lead, ship, red, said, etc.
• Allow groups a chance to go to their flip chart, set a time for them to work (approximately 10 minutes), and then tell the groups to start.
• Let them work for a few minutes, and then go to each group and give them a target to reach. The goals you set should vary for each group and typically can fall somewhere between 35 and 60 words.
• Allow groups to work for the time that you set. Call time, and have each group count its words.
Your debrief should include:
• Did your team reach its goals? Why or why not?
• Which groups did a good job on this activity? Why?
• Did the goals give you something to shoot for?
• Did you stop and count as you went through to see your progress toward the goal?
• For groups that exceeded their goals, did you discuss at any point and time going and helping other teams that had not met their goals? Why or why not? Did anyone steal words from other groups?
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