Team Building with Intelligence: Tools for effectively Debriefs and Icebreakers

By Tyler Hayden

This book is designed for managers, trainers, & team designers who want to reach more people with greater accuracy. Using H. Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences & Hayden’s Multiple Intelligence Quotient you will quickly realize that reaching employees means adjusting your style to deliver and assign tasks as they relate to the individuals strongest intelligence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tyler Hayden
• Release date: Oct 31, 2010
• ISBN: 9781897050019

Tyler Hayden

Tyler Hayden has been a full-time professional speaker and innovative team builder for over a decade. His business is personal development and nontraditional team building programs. Tyler’s clients include some of the world’s largest corporations and associations, such as the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and Bell. Tyler is a keynoter, team-builder, workshop leader, and author. He has developed program solutions for groups in areas of leadership, team building, staff motivation, personal development, and soft skill development. Tyler is the author of over 16 books, 2 audio CDs, 3 interactive CD-ROMs, and a full-length DVD. His team building and training materials have been sold worldwide, and he has delivered hundreds of high-energy keynotes and train-the-trainer programs internationally. As a keynoter Tyler has spoken to groups ranging in size of 20 to 5 000. He delivers a professional presentation that ensures that the message is designed with the audiences learning in mind. Tyler’s electric energy on stage is second to none – in fact some say he is our planet’s answer to alternative energy. Working with Tyler as a team building workshop leader is fun. Whether he brings his 9 hole mini golf course, paints and canvass, or remote control cars his bag of tricks always delivers a great time! Tyler’s team events are high energy and information packed. Tyler works diligently beforehand along side your team leads to ensure the delivery of consistent and powerful messages that resonate with your team. All work and no play? No way! Tyler enjoys travelling and experiencing new cultures and high-adrenaline activities, like skydiving, canyoning and survival camping. Tyler spends some of his "free" time at home renovating his family's 250-year-old Cape Cod home and producing sought after folk art sculpture and paintings. Finally, a description of Tyler would not be complete without a word about his greatest source of affluence: family. Tyler is a loving husband to Laurie, a high school principal, and proud father of Tait and Breton, his beautiful little girls. Tyler and Laurie look forward to building a loving family and continuing to make a difference in their quiet seaside community in Nova Scotia. Tyler invites you to join him on a magnificent journey of Livin' Life LargeTM!

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Teambuilding with Intelligence

Tools for Effectively Debriefing & Breaking the Ice

By: Tyler Hayden

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Acknowledgements

Thanks for playing with me.

Teambuilding with Intelligence would not have been possible without the following people. Thank you so much for guiding me and engaging with me in some off the wall teambuilding ideas. When I look back—what a crazy, crooked path it has been—I’m glad you were there.

• Acadia University, professors and students alike—some of the best years of my life.

• Clients without you I would be living in a van down by the river.

• Co-facilitators your insight energy and feedback allowed me to develop these little nuggets into powerful teambuilding tools…

• My wife. Without your regular paycheck, pension plan and medical plan I would have had to get a real job and not been able to explore these crazy ideas. I love you.

• My girls Tait and Breton. Thanks for letting Daddy play with your toys. They help me be creative and build fun stuff for my clients. I love you.

Contents

1. Debriefing Your Team

a. Productivity Processing

b. Multiple Intelligences for Teams

c. The Talking Stick: Tools for Getting Groups to Communicate

2. Breaking the Ice

a. Identifying My Team

b. The Ice Pick: Tools for Breaking the Ice

c. References

3. Appendix

a. MIQ for Teams

4. More Great Teambuilding Activities

1. Debriefing Your Team

a. Productivity Processing

Countless leaders struggle to get their teams to participate authentically in discussions. The typical pitfall is in their approach because they do not consider several key components that dictate a group’s openness to actively participating in a discussion. We will explore those components here and see how truly easy it can be to get your group talking.

First, a person who is included in a discussion is given a sense of ownership over its development and ultimately the resulting solution. When a leader invites the team members to participate and legitimately hear what everyone in the group says, the group will feel more empowered to share their thoughts. To achieve this, a leader actively engages the learners in a process that requires their participation.

Second, leaders should ensure that their processing tools use as many different intelligences as possible. Howard Gardner originally defined seven different intelligences that a person can possess to varying degrees. By using only one technique in a discussion, you alienate many of the would be participants and ultimately many would be solutions. Effective processing involves leaders planning their approach based on the individual learning styles among the group.

Productivity Processing realizes both of these components. It actively engages the participants on an even playing field while guiding them to legitimately share their thoughts and ideas in a way that is personally rewarding. This process involves the team using a product