- Alright, so now that we've gotten into our groups,
we're gonna do our first exercise, and that's
making the paper chain.
So, you should all have in front of you
one pair of scissors, your construction paper and tape.
So, the goal is to make the longest paper chain,
looped paper chain.
So, as an example, just pretend like I did this straight.
Remember when you were children you made those
little loops, you taped them together,
put another strip and put it through.
Okay, you're gonna have two minutes
to complete this task.
Are there any questions before we get started?
Okay, then go.
- Should we divide it into tasks?
Do you want one of us to rip the strips?
I'll be bold, I'll be the settler.
(discussion)
- Couldn't we cut, put the stick of paper
on top of each other and cut three at a time?
- That's just genius.
'Cause that works much better than what I'm doing.
That's why I pay Kelly the big bucks.
(discussion)
- I'll just supervise.
- You can tell me how straight my lines are.
- A little left. - A little left?
- I fold them, if you flipped it over,
you'd actually have something you could, you know...
- [Proctor] Okay, and you have one minute left.
(discussion)
- How's everybody else doing?
- Susanna, can you like pick up a couple
pieces of tape to put them on the table?
- Oh my gosh, yes.
- This is a lot of pressure, we wouldn't actually be...
- [Proctor] And, you have 30 seconds left.
- I didn't know we were in a contest.
- Oh gosh, I lost time to the tape.
Oh no, I lost the end of the tape.
- Keep going, you can do it, I believe in you.
No, no, we can do it, we can put all of them together.
- [Proctor] 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
four, three, two, one, and stop.
Okay, let's hold up your chains.
Who has the longest chain?
Group number one, alright,
so let me ask you, what team behaviors
helped you make the longest chain?
- Talking to one another.
- And, being able to change midstream.
- Being adaptable, kind of assigning tasks.
- Yeah, I think we delegated tasks a little bit.
- You did delegate some tasks?
- I think, generally, being smarter than the
other group helped, too.
- What was a hindrance, do you think?
- We had a technical problem with the tape,
so getting rushed sort of, I started to fumble.
- I was a hindrance by not knowing what
I should be, not clearly jumping in.
- No, you did jump in because you told me
I could put them on top of each other and cut.
- So, maybe a lack of clear roles and responsibilities?
And, you said your tape was a hindrance,
so, resources, how often in our workplace
do we have all the resources that work all the time?
- Not all the time?
- Right, so that puts us behind, maybe increases
some of our frustrations on the team.
So, you said, somebody I think on this side
said was a leader, did somebody jump in?
Maybe it was over here, you suggested,
I'm sorry, Jim, why don't you start cutting,
why don't you be the cutter, so trying
to take that leadership role assigning tasks
to get a plan going.
And, you did do some talking at the beginning,
who's gonna do what, or how are we gonna do it.
So, that's important to remember when we start
any task, okay?
Same thing, we want you to take those behaviors
back to your teams, when you go back to the workplace.
Thinking about what's going on in the environment,
keeping that situational awareness,
supporting one another, assisting with the tasks,
that task assist.
So, we're going to be discussing these types
of behaviors throughout the whole course.
So, as we bring up new tools, new behaviors,
think back to the paper chain,
and reflect, and bring some of that fun
back to the work environment, that's what we're asking.