Team Climate Inventory Development Exercises

Author(s): Neil Anderson, Helen Bradley & Michael West

Publisher: ASE, 1997

Purpose: To facilitate team development

Candidates: 18+ years of age

Features: Develop specific areas of teamwork

Content:

The TCI Development Exercises provide a structured program through which team members can identify, improve and apply the skills necessary for successful teamwork. Designed as a follow-up to the TCI, the 17 exercises provide a practical way of improving teamwork:

• Communication Audit - evaluates internal and external communication
• Information Sharing Worksheet - increases information flow between team members
• Interpersonal Process Review - increases trust, openness and warmth
• Tell Me Stranger - increases generation of new ideas and opinion sharing
• Stakeholder Analysis - reviews current situations or impact of proposed changes
• Interaction Audit - increases formal and informal interactions between team members
• Yes and ......... - decreases barriers to others by building on ideas
• Brainwriting Pool - builds upon ideas generated by team members
• Review of Time, Resources and Co-operation for Innovation -- helps members to produce new ideas and suggestions
• Clarifying Team Objectives - clarifies group objectives
• Developing a Mission Statement - builds a shared idea of valued outcome for the team
• Negative Brainstorming on Team Goals - suggests improvements for ideas, avoids criticising
• Goal Orientation Techniques -examines and challenge targets and goals
• Constructive Controversy Techniques - evaluates team performance critically
• Devil's Advocate Techniques -- one person within the team assumes
• responsibility for questioning processes
• Brainstorming -- generate ideas, possibilities and course of action
• Morphological Analysis -- examine issues and alternatives available