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    This document discusses team selection and formation. It defines teams as groups of two or more people working interdependently towards a shared goal, and team building as gathering the right people to work as a unit. When selecting team members, it is important to consider complementary skills, cohesion through shared mental models, and balancing experience, personality traits, and thinking patterns. Effective team communication methods include face-to-face, videoconferencing, teleconferencing, and internet platforms. A good innovation team has mission and goal clarity, an appropriate mix of skills including leadership, clear roles, and good communication.

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    Lesson 1 Team Selection Process

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    Module 3: Engineering Innovation

    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1

    Lesson 1
    Team Selection Process

    Adapted from Vasan Ramachandran, Team Science & The Science of


    Teams, Faculty development workshop, 2011.

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    Module 3: Engineering Innovation
    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1

    Some definitions
    Teams: two or more people working
    interdependently (collaborating) towards a
    shared common goal or task

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    Module 3: Engineering Innovation
    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1

    Some definitions (con’t)


    Team building: process of gathering the
    ‘right’ people and getting them to work
    together to accomplish a goal/task
    Team management: directing a group of
    individuals to work as a unit to accomplish
    a goal/task
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    Module 3: Engineering Innovation
    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1
    Groups vs Teams
    Groups Teams
    Members Independent Interdependent
    Goals Individual Shared
    Identity Individual (me) Shared (we)
    Leadership Often single Shared
    Products Individual Collective
    Reward Individual Collective
    Cohesion None/limited Esprit
    Conflict Reactive Expected/proactive
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    Module 3: Engineering Innovation
    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1

    Selecting a team members


    Complementarity of skills: differentiation and
    specialization
    • technical
    • executive: problem solving; decision
    making
    • interpersonal
    • internationalization & commercialization
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    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1

    Selecting a team members (con’t)


    Cohesion (shared mental model & work)
    • Breeds respect and trust

    Complementarity conflicts with shared mental


    model

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    Module 3: Engineering Innovation
    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1

    Selecting a team members (con’t)


    Cohesion (shared mental model & work)
    • Breeds respect and trust

    Complementarity conflicts with shared mental


    model

    7
    Module 3: Engineering Innovation
    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1

    Team mix
    Mix of experience and expertise
    Mix of personality traits
    • ‘go getter’ vs. ‘look before you leap’
    • Sprinter vs. plodder
    • Risk taker vs. cautious
    Thinking pattern
    • Creative vs. pragmatic
    • Dreamer vs. logical
    • Spontaneous vs. organized 8
    Module 3: Engineering Innovation
    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1
    Team communication
    Face-to-face
    Videoconferencing
    Teleconferencing
    Internet
    • E-mail
    • Texting (Line, Whatsapp)

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    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1
    Summary
    Good innovation team
    • Mission clarity and faith (overall)
    • Goal clarity (project-specific)
    • Appropriate mix of skill sets to address question at
    hand, including good leadership
    • Role clarity
    • Good communication

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    Module 3: Engineering Innovation
    Unit 1: Team Selection Process Lesson 1
    Activity
    Team Building Exercise

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