1. Establishing Team Climate
The purpose of this module is to develop participants’ ability to promote a positive team climate

2. At the end of this module participants will be able to:
Identify techniques that will promote a positive team climate
Ask questions to assess a team’s climate

3. Content Characteristics of positive team climate
Assessment of team climate

4. Establishing a Positive Team Climate
Ground rules
How we will work together
How we treat each other
What we value

5. Characteristics of Positive Team Climate
Trust
Openness
Closeness
High energy

6. Trust is the belief that
Deeds will follow words
Your interests are taken into account

7. Conditions for Trust Honesty Consistency Realism Application
Compassion

8. Problems, concerns, and feelings are expressed
Openness
Problems, concerns, and feelings are expressed

9. Advantages to Openness
Frustration is reduced
Closer personal relationships
Problems are clarified
Enables team to learn and develop
Energy is released

10. Disadvantages to Openness
Team members may feel
vulnerable
threatened
Difficult problems are brought into the open; potential conflict to resolve

11. Feeling that one is known and is important
Closeness
Feeling that one is known
and is important

12. Closeness results from
Shared experience
Disclosure
Respect
Shared goals
Gratitude
Shared values

13. Team members feel enlivened by their participation
High Energy
Team members feel
enlivened by their participation

14. High energy results from
Recognition of success
Sense of winning
Real challenge
Sharing of blockages
Payoff for members

15. Assessment of Team Climate
Positive or Negative?