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Team Building – Interactive Lesson B

Hello this is AJ, and welcome to part B for our interactive story lesson. We’ll use the same essay from Robin Benacasa and I’ll be asking you some questions. Now, when you answer the questions you can just use one or two words. You can listen maybe the first few times, then you can say it out loud, shout your answers. Use strong energy if you can, if you’re alone.

If you’re in public you can just answer in your head, but short answers are okay. Let’s begin.

In our real lives, and from a young age, we’re wired to think of winning as being a mutually exclusive thing.

Are we wired to think of winning as being a team thing?

No, no, not a team thing. We’re not wired to think of winning as a team thing.

We’re wired to think of winning as being a, what thing?

A mutually exclusive thing, mutually exclusive means I win, you lose or you win I lose.

Do we think that winning is cooperative, something we do with others or that it’s mutually exclusive?

Well, we’re programmed to think, we’re wired to think that winning is mutually exclusive, mutually exclusive. If I am to win everyone else must lose.

She asks, why can’t we then strive to take all of our teammates onto the top of that podium with us?

Should we strive to win individually?

No! Robin says that we should strive to take all of our teammates to the top of the podium. We should strive to. We should try to win with our whole team.

Should we strive to win individually or as a group?

We should strive to win as a group, according to Robin Benacasa.

Does winning as a group make us inferior or superior?

It makes us superior, it makes us more than. More than we used to be.

Does it make us less than we used to be or more than we used to be?

It makes us more than we used to be. It makes us a superior person when we win together.

She believes it’s more fun and more memorable to have a Stanley Cup style finish instead of an Olympic type of finish. So which type of finish, which style of finish does she prefer?

A Stanley Cup style finish, right, the big team type of finish, not the Olympic finish, not the individual finish.

Next she says, whenever we saw a team where there was finger pointing, we knew that team was in trouble, that they had problems.

When teams did what they had problems?

Finger pointing, finger pointing. When there was finger pointing at one another, we knew that team was going to have problems with the finish line.

Finger pointing means to compliment?

No, not to compliment it’s the opposite. Finger pointing means to blame and criticize. Finger pointing means blaming and criticizing.

Is finger pointing good for the team or bad for the team?

Finger pointing is bad for the team. Blaming and criticizing is bad for the team.

Is finger pointing good for success or bad for team success?

Also bad, bad for team success. Finger pointing, blaming and criticizing, is bad for team success.

Rumblings, this kind of sound erg, rumblings erg, like I don’t think Bob trained enough or, Steve really blew the navigation gives the signal that the individuals will be thrown under the bus on that team

Steve really blew the navigation, did Steve do a good job on the navigation?

No, the opposite. Steve really failed with the navigation, he really blew the navigation.

Did Steve succeed with the navigation or did he really blow the navigation?

He really blew the navigation. Steve really blew the navigation. He really failed. He really made a big mistake with the navigation.

What did Steve blow?

He blew the navigation.

And who blew the navigation?

Steve; Steve blew the navigation. He made a big mistake. He failed with the navigation. Steve really blew the navigation in that section. Teams that say that show, they give the signal, they show that individuals will be thrown under the bus on the team, thrown under the bus.

Thrown under the bus means what?

Sacrificed, right, not be protected, not be supported. We’ll be unsupported, we’ll be sacrificed.

On good teams are individuals thrown under the bus?

No, no, no, no, no… on good teams individuals are not thrown under the bus, on good teams individuals are supported, protected.

On what teams are individuals thrown under the bus?

On bad teams, on failing teams, on unsuccessful teams.

On unsuccessful teams individuals are what?

Thrown under the bus. On unsuccessful teams individuals are thrown under the bus, they’re sacrificed. They’re not protected. They’re not defended. So, on unsuccessful teams individuals are thrown under the bus, and it’s every man for himself.

Is there team unity on unsuccessful teams?

No, there’s not team unity, it’s every man for himself.

So, do they cooperate together or do they compete individually on the bad teams?

They compete individually.

It’s every man for what?

Himself, every man for himself. Every person on the team cares only about themselves, they’re competing only for themselves. They’re trying only for themselves as individuals, they’re not helping each other. Every man for himself.

So, pointing out of individual mistakes and weaknesses destroys team what?

Unity. It destroys team unity. When you have every man for himself, when people point out individual weaknesses and mistakes, it destroys team unity. Team togetherness is destroyed.

It destroys the desire to work for your teammates instead of, versus, protecting yourself from them. To that end, for that purpose, the best teams word everything as, ‘we’. They word everything as ‘we’.

We lost our way, not I lost my way; not you lost the way no, no, no, they say what?

We lost our way. We struggled. We failed. Not you, not I, not him, not her, we, we, we.

The people who are responsible feel bad enough already and more than likely they know who they are. They will appreciate you having their what?

Back. They will appreciate you having their back. They will appreciate you defending them. Protecting and defending them, supporting them.

When you support someone you have their?

Their back. You have their back.

So on good teams what happens?

You have their back. You have each other’s back. You protect each other. You defend each other. You support each other. You have their back and they have your back.

And when the shoe is on the other foot they will have your back. I you have their back when the shoes on the other foot, they will have yours, they will have your back.

When the shoe is on the other foot means, when the situation what?

Changes or reverses, right. When the situation changes or reverses. When you have the problem they will have your back, they will have your back, they will support you; protect you.

This grace and generosity of spirit, attitude of generosity, of giving, helping.

This attitude is the, what that holds a team together?

It’s the glue. It’s the glue that holds a team together.

For a short time or a long time?

For a long time, over the long haul. So over the long haul, meaning, for a long time.

Besides, anyway, many team issues are due to a lack of synergy and not a particular individual’s performance.

Due to means what? What does due to mean?

Caused by, caused by. So many team issues, many team problems are caused by, are due to a lack of synergy, a lack of working together; great teamwork.

So, are many team problems caused by individuals or are they due to bad teamwork?

Many problems are due to bad teamwork, a lack of synergy.

For example, if the navigation is wrong on a team, it’s not because a single navigator, a single person screwed up. Screwed up means what?

Failed, made a mistake.

If you screw up, do you make a mistake or do a good job?

You make a mistake.

Make a mistake means what?

Screwed up, screwed up.

So, for navigating there are three other people on the team, who are supposed to help, it’s not just one person’s job. One person is the main navigator, but everyone else is supposed to help. They’re supposed to back him up.

What are the other team members supposed to do?

Back him up.

Who are they supposed to back up, to help?

The navigator. The other teammates are supposed to back up the navigator. The other teammates are supposed to help the navigator. They’re supposed to back up the navigator.

How are they supposed to back up the navigator?

Vigilantly, vigilantly.

What does vigilantly mean?

It means attentively, carefully, with a lot of attention. So carefully with a lot of attention.

So, how are they supposed to back up the navigator?

Vigilantly, vigilantly.

They’re supposed to vigilantly do what?

They’re supposed to vigilantly back up the navigator.

For example, they would say “Steve, I see that ridgeline, the line of hills that you told us to look for. Or they might say, “I think I see that little meadow coming up too.” A little meadow is just a little bit of grass, area of grass.

On high performance teams everyone accepts complete responsibility for the group’s successes and failures. Allowing even one person to fail is a breakdown of the entire team.

Because everyone should have been what? What should they have been doing?

Pitching in to help. Everyone should pitch in to help, join in to help. When should everyone pitch in to help?

When someone is struggling. When someone has a problem.

If an individual team member has a problem, everyone else should?

Pitch in to help. Everyone else should join in, pitch in to help.

Should only one person pitch in to help?

No, no, no, everyone should pitch in to help the person who is struggling, who is having problems.

If a person is struggling, should they keep it to themselves?

No, they shouldn’t keep it to themselves. They should not stay silent.

If an individual is struggling, if an individual is having problems, if an individual is failing on a team, should they keep it to themselves or should they say something?

They should say something. They should ask for help. They should not stay silent they should not keep it to themselves.

If someone is having difficulty they should not keep it to themselves, they should ask for help.

And when they ask for help, everyone else should what?

Everyone else should pitch in to help.

Okay, that’s the end of part B. Listen to this every single day. Answer the questions with one or two words. Try to shout the answers. After you listen several times you can guess the meanings because you’ve heard it, try to remember it. It’s okay just shout the meanings. The main thing is listen, listen, listen to this many times each day. You get a lot of repetition. You’ll learn the vocabulary very deeply when you listen to it a lot. So every single day for at least two weeks, more is fine.

All right, see you in the commentary, bye for now.