STAR Symposium

Harry Johns

President and CEO

Alzheimer’s Association

STAR Symposium

Atlanta Team

Challenge

Atlanta Challenge Team Building Events

For Businesses, Schools & Organizations

A Whole-Brain Approach To Increasing Your Effectiveness

1. What is the greatest team you have ever experienced?Name a specific team that you participated in, watched, supported, followed or admired; a team that generated some emotion for you.    2. What attributes and skills did that team have that made them your greatest team? How did they achieve success? What attributes helped them succeed? What skills did they have? How did the team relate to each other? How did they engender such emotion? Why were they so worth watching or supporting? 

A B C D

ANALYTICAL Breaking things or ideas into parts and examining them to see how they fit together.

CHALLENGING Questioning, playing the “devil’s advocate.”

CRITICAL Exercising or involving careful judgment or evaluation, e.g., judging the feasibility of an idea or project.

DEFINITIVE Clear, exact, free from ambiguity or obscurity.

DIRECT Frank, to the point.

FACTUAL Concerned with what can be documented or actually happened.

INTELLECTUAL Guided by objective, rational processes rather than subjective, emotional processes.

LOGICAL Able to reason deductively from what has gone before.

MATHEMATICAL Perceiving and understanding numbers and being able to manipulate them to a desired end.

OBJECTIVE Unbiased, based on facts and not affected by personal feelings or prejudice.

PROBLEM SOLVER Able to find solutions to difficult problems by identifying and resolving key issues.

QUANTITATIVE Oriented towards numerical relationships; inclined to seek exact measures.

RATIONAL Making choices on the basis of reason as opposed to emotion.

REALISTIC Concerned with what is factual or probable rather than speculative or imagined.

RIGOROUS Having a thorough and detailed approach to problem solving.

TECHNICAL Having special, practical knowledge of a mechanical or scientific subject.

ADMINISTRATIVE To manage, supervise or direct.

ARTICULATE Expressing oneself clearly, readily and effectively.

CONTROLLED Restrained, holding back, in charge of one’s emotions.

DETAILED Paying attention to the small items or parts of an idea or project.

DISCIPLINED Self controlled, able to follow through with plans.

DOMINANT Commanding; prevailing over others.

INDUSTRIOUS Hard working and diligent.

ORGANIZED To arrange or form into a coherent unit or functioning whole.

PERSISTENT Tenacious; sticking to a task until it is completed.

PLANNER Determining the necessary steps to achieve a desired outcome.

PRACTICAL Disposed to action rather than to speculation or abstraction.

PROCEDURAL Establishing and following spelled out policies and processes.

PUNCTUAL Always on time; time conscious and concerned with meeting deadlines.

SAFEKEEPING Cautious, careful, protective; concerned with consequences.

SEQUENTIAL Dealing with things and ideas one after another or in order.

STRUCTURED Being concerned with systematic frameworks; operating within set boundaries.

COOPERATIVE Working or acting together willingly for a common purpose.

EMOTIONAL Feeling things deeply.

EMPATHETIC Able to understand how another person feels and able to communicate that feeling.

ENTHUSIASTIC Giving yourself completely to whatever engages you.

EXPRESSIVE To show, manifest or reveal one’s opinion.

FRIENDLY Kindly, amiable, cordial, genial and helpful.

HARMONIZING To work toward agreement or feeling of connection with others.

HELPFUL Giving or rendering aid, assistance or service.

INTERPERSONAL Able to develop and maintain relationships between people.

INTUITIVE-FEELINGS Knowing something without consciously thinking it out, sensing how others feel without being told.

MUSICAL Having an interest in or talent for music.

PASSIONATE Being deeply involved or having intense feelings toward ideas or causes.

RECEPTIVE Willing and inclined to receive suggestions and offers from others.

RESPONSIVE Willing to get involved, extending oneself to others.

SPIRITUAL Having to do with sacred matters as apart from material things.

TRUSTING Willing to rely upon and believe in the integrity of others; assuming a positive outcome.

ADVENTUROUS Interested in discovering or investigating the unknown

ARTISTIC Appreciating or creating paintings, music, poetry, dance, sculpture, etc.; sensitive to pleasing elements of design.

CONCEPTUAL Able to grasp key elements of thought and generalize abstract ideas from specific instances.

CREATIVE Able to make unique connections and put things together in a new way.

CURIOUS Inquisitive, eager to learn or know.

EXPLORATORY Investigate new arenas, concepts, ideas and points of view.

FLEXIBLE Adaptable, able to see things in a number of different ways, willing to change.

HOLISTIC See the big picture and understand how parts interconnect to form the larger whole.

IMAGINATIVE Able to think beyond the bounds of reality.

INTEGRATING Able to combine pieces, parts and elements of ideas, concepts and situations into a unified whole.

INTUITIVE-IDEAS Knowing something without consciously thinking it out, having instant understanding without need for facts or proof.

OPEN MINDED Receptive to new ideas or differing points of view.

RISK TAKER Inclined or willing to take chances.

SIMULTANEOUS Able to process more than one type of mental input or attend to more than one activity at a time.

SPONTANEOUS Responding without effort or premeditation.

SYNTHESIZER Able to unite separate ideas, elements, or concepts into a new whole.

Corpus Callosum

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Corpus Callosum

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Same-quadrant

Communication between people within a quadrant.

Free-flow, on the same wave length, but can be competitive and tribal.

Compatible-quadrant

Communication between people with same left or right dominance.

Supportive, reinforcing. Sometimes leads to a false sense of understanding.

Contrasting-quadrant

Communication between people with same limbic or cerebral dominance.

Additive, synergistic, differences in styles can be challenging.

Cross-quadrant

Communication between people from diagonally opposing quadrants.

Complementary but may be confrontational. Misunderstandings can occur.

A D

B C

A D

B C

A D

B C

A D

B C

A D

B C

According to Jon Katzenbach, high performing teams:

• Analyzes all available tax shelters

• Researches tax codes and tax-saving options

• Calculates return/cost ratio on investments and estimates taxes all year long

• Calculates and analyzes to avoid having to pay any tax

• Uses a state-of-the-art computer tax program

The A Quadrant

Analyzes

The B Quadrant

Organizes

• Knows the experts should do the taxes (just to be safe).

• Has found the most conservative, well established accountant with the best reputation and many years of experience.

• Right after New Year’s Day, makes an appointment to meet with the accountant on Feb 2nd .

• Prepares for the appointment by removing all receipts and necessary papers from carefully designed filing system that has been used throughout the year.

The C Quadrant

Personalizes

• Shares with friends their concern about upcoming taxes.

• Throws a tax party. Invites lots of friends with intent of doing the taxes together.

• Realizes after the party they spent the whole time talking about their kids.

• Chooses their best friend’s spouse as new accountant.

• Bakes and brings a cake to the meeting with the accountant.

The D Quadrant is

Overwhelmed!

• Help!

• Extension… extension… extension

• This is a year-long project!

• Searches everywhere for receipts and papers; throws them into a box.

• Asks employer for another copy of (lost) W-2 form.

• Scrambles for an accountant--it is hard to get an appointment so late!

• Asks if there isn't any way to be creative about reducing tax burden.

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“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

- George Sheehan