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Empowered Teams

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Three small groups of people, feeling connected to one another using a structured team formation technique.

Empowered Teams

Structured team formation to create balanced & diverse groups.

  • Simple to set-up
  • Empowers group
  • Focus on critical thinking
  • Fosters interaction
  • No props

Step-by-Step Instructions

A structured team formation strategy that empowers groups to self-organize based on meaningful criteria. Empowered Teams shifts responsibility to participants, requiring them to consider diversity factors as they create balanced groups. When given specific parameters to work within, people naturally engage in conversations that acknowledge differences and strengths, resulting in more effective teams with distributed talents.

Empowered Teams – Structured Team Formation
  1. Assemble your group.
  2. Announce that you want your group to form into a specified number of teams.
  3. Explain that each team must have the same number of members, and achieve a balance of the following criteria:
    – Gender
    – Age
    – Experience/Qualifications
    – Culture/Ethnicity
    – Other attributes as useful to your purposes
  4. Allow several minutes for your group to achieve the task.

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