1. Communication, Trust, and the Importance of Healthy Relationships in Building Successful Teams
Leah Allman, Ivy Tech Community College, Terre Haute Campus
Deanna King, PhD, Ivy Tech Community College, Terre Haute Campus
April 13, 2018

2. Do you want to be a super-chicken?
William Muir, Purdue University
Studied productivity…with chickens
Created a “super flock”
Average group – feathered, plump and productive
Super group – what did they do?
After six generations had passed, what did he find? Well, the first group, the average group, was doing just fine. They were all plump and fully feathered and egg production had increased dramatically. What about the second group? Well, all but three were dead. They'd pecked the rest to death. (Laughter) The individually productive chickens had only achieved their success by suppressing the productivity of the rest.
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3. What makes some groups or work teams more successful than others?
Teams that have high degree of social sensitivity to each other (empathy)
Successful groups give roughly equal time to each other
More women 
MIT research conducted. Groups had to solve very difficult problems.
IQ individually or in the aggregate did not matter. Social sensitivity did.
So how does this play out in the real world? Well, it means that what happens between people really counts, because in groups that are highly attuned and sensitive to each other, ideas can flow and grow.People don't get stuck. They don't waste energy down dead ends.
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4. So what about our story? We have so much in common…
We have so many differences…
We started traveling together
We started to see the dysfunction that existed
We did something about it
Work ethic
Commitments to our responsibilities
Commitments to our team
Push through difficult situations
Communication style
Credentials
Numbers
Leadership from the Heart
Challenging leadership changes
Declining enrollments
Then comes the reorg and we don’t even talk to each other, but just start doing
Realized traveling together makes sense
Learned more about each other
RESPECT
Trust, loyalty, communication
Now a new reorg ---Dual Credit---4DX
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5. How have our teams benefited?
Taken initiatives to scale quickly
Greater collaboration and trust – more transparency
Improved retention
Emplify Survey Fall to spring retention moved to 73%
Cross-functional teams/committees
Extended as Student Affairs was bifurcated and now Student Success important collaborator
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6. Let’s finish with some fun!
Empty your pockets for coins, pens, pencils, whatever
We have brought a few tid bits also
Create a logo that demonstrates your collective vision of an outstanding team
For example, “The C Team” logo might be a pretzel. It’s a sign of how everyone is working together to make a strong team with cross functional lines!
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7. Thank you for joining us today!