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One of the simplest and most powerful ways to build emotional connections is by sharing positive information with others. When people share positive information, they validate, encourage, and even inspire others.

We know that educators are some of the hardest working, passionate, selfless, and impactful individuals in the workforce - you do your best every day to make an impact. We also know that it can be an extremely challenging role filled with stress and anxiety. It's easy for anyone - coaches, teachers, or administrators - to feel especially vulnerable. Many of us struggle to find solid ground amidst uncertainty, but the good news is that we can share that vulnerability to create an environment of psychological safety.

Feeling safe reduces anxiety and encourages realistic optimism. For instructional coaches partnering with teachers, it's especially important to focus on recognizing and naming the good we witness. As you are visiting teachers and classrooms to complete coaching cycles, focus on all that you have accomplished this year, on what is going well, and use it as a springboard for next steps. When we are highly sensitive to the positive things that others do, it provides a great service to the educators in our schools.

Too often, the challenges of being an educator and the emotional exhaustion that comes with trying to reach every child every day, make it difficult for teachers to fully comprehend the good they are doing. There's no one correct way to navigate these challenges, but with a safe and supportive partner, it's easier to focus on the real reason we're all here: the students.

To improve at being a witness to the good, we simply need to try to improve the quality of our comments, and then monitor whether or not the way we share information changes the way people respond to our comments. We can explore the three areas outlined inBetter Conversations and use the three forms at the bottom of this post to support our reflection and goal-setting.

Bottom-Up Attention and Top-Down Attention

Bottom up attention is the attention we use when we notice something that we can't help noticing. With bottom-up attention, we are positioned to notice things that are seemingly unavoidable. Our bottom-up attention can help us notice pleasant things like the level of student talk in a classroom or unpleasant sounds like the tapping of pencils or pens as the teacher is teaching.

Top-down attention, on the other hand, occurs only when we prompt ourselves to look for something. We start with a lens with which we can hold ourselves accountable for finding the good and set out to notice the positives in a given interaction. With top-down attention, we position ourselves with a sincere intention to find the good and not get distracted with the bottom-up items that will inevitably surface.

Direct, Specific, Nonattributive Comments

Harvard researchers Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (2001) offer a second suggestion on how to share positive information, which they refer to as "a language of ongoing regard." Kegan and Lahey stress that appreciative or admiring feedback needs to be (a) direct, (b) specific, and (c) nonattributive.

Direct comments are spoken to a person in the first person.‍

Specific comments clearly explain the details of what we are praising.

Nonattributive comments describe our experience of others rather than the attributes of others.

Learning how to give direct, specific, nonattributive feedback is a skill that can be developed until it becomes a habit of thought and part of our daily practice.

Growth and Fixed Mindset

To continue our pursuit of being a witness to the good, our mindset and actions need to be authentic, direct, specific, and nonattributive of course, and our focus needs to include an emphasis on effort rather than intelligence. Our goal is to communicate to others that we see the good they are doing. Therefore, our comments need to be authentic and encouraging not inauthentic and critical.

After we've committed to creating and cultivating good habits around noticing and communicating, we can continue this development by focusing our attention to refining our language from fixed to growth commentary. We can focus on effort, rather than fixed traits, and using specific, direct, nonattributive comments to strengthen our interactions.
Looking Back: Being a Witness to the Good Looking At: Being a Witness to the Good Looking Ahead: Being a Witness to the Good
Getting Better at Being a Witness to the Good

Perhaps the most important thing we can do is to be intentional about what we choose to see and how we share our thoughts. Here are three forms that can help you do the important work of being a witness to the good by reflecting on your own work and setting new intentions for a preferred future for yourself and the impact you hope to have on others.

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One of the hardest parts about working on a team is finding ways to connect, build trust and bond. This is why non-awkward team building activities are one of the best ways to kickstart your group. These team building activities can be used for:

Work teams

Sports teams

Professional development teams

Why is team building important?

No matter how smart, effective or impressive your team members, if you don't have reciprocity and team trust, you cannot work together well. A close-knit, high trust team is also more productive. I want to show you why team building is not a "nice to have," it's a "need to have." The best way to approach your team building activities is with team science.

Team science is a scientific approach to collaboration that leverages the strengths and expertise of professionals trained in different fields.

We can use team science to build trust in a team. Before exploring my favorite science-based team building activities, games and exercises that will help your team bond, check out the #1 science-backed course, People School. People School is designed to boost teams to the next level.

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How to conduct team building activities

It's important you set up your team for success before the bonding begins. Here are a few recommendations:

Prepare your introverts. Extroverts almost always are down for a bonding activity. Whereas introverts often need a little bit of prep time. If you want to do one of these team bonding activities in a meeting or in a daylong workshop, send out an email ahead of time with the agenda. This lets introverts know you will be having bonding activities. If you decide to go deep and use some of the personal conversation starters below, then you might consider sending those ahead of time for introverts to prepare.

Nourish the belly, nourish the mind. I always like to have some special food or drink before, during, or after these team building activities. You never want to ask people to step out of their comfort zone on an empty stomach!

Get buy-in. If you have a boss, manager or superior attending your team building activity, be sure to give them an overview ahead of time in case they have something special to say or they want to lead the activity.

Now let's dive into my favorite team building activities for work and play. Remember, every team is different, so you might have to try a few to find the right fit for you.

Pet Projects

Time recommendation: 15 minutes

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

Everyone has a secret hobby, side-hustle or passion project that they run home to on evenings or weekends. The problem is there is rarely an opportunity or safe space to share it. One of the best team building activities is having everyone on your team share their favorite pet project. This can be a current project, a past project or even a desired project.

Activity: Ask everyone to go around in a circle and answer the following question:

Do you have a passion project or hobby you look forward to doing in your time off?

Why it's not awkward: When people have a pet project they LOVE to have space to talk about it. And when someone doesn't have a pet project - no problem! Just switch the question to: "If you had unlimited time or money, what would your pet project be?" It's fun to get wishes too!
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Pest Projects

Time recommendation: 10 minutes to 30 minutes

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

A little deeper than a pet project is something I call a pest project. This is an advanced communication technique I teach in People School. A pest project is a part of someone's life that they want to improve. It can be a skill someone is dying to learn. It can be a weakness someone wants to overcome. It even can be a source of anxiety someone is hoping to solve. A great team building exercise is sharing vulnerability. With this team building activity you want to create a safe space for team members to build trust through vulnerability.

Activity: Have people go around the table and answer one or all of the following questions. They can do these with partners or with the entire group:

Intimacy Level 1: What's one skill you always have wanted to learn?

Intimacy Level 2: If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

Intimacy Level 3: What do you worry about most?

Bonus Level: If you really want to promote bonding amongst your team members, you can assign them one of (or all of) "Arthur Aron's 36 Questions" to truly get to know someone. You can assign people to do them all at once in a daylong workshop, or even to do one at the start of every meeting.

Why it's not awkward: People love talking about themselves when they are given permission and a safe space. These kinds of questions allow people to share vulnerable aspects of themselves and there is NO BETTER WAY to build trust.
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Team Building Games

Time recommendation: 60 minutes

Virtual Teams: Too difficult over video or phone

One of the best ways to build trust on a team is with old-fashioned board games! These are also great if you want to pair new team members with old team members or break up an office clique by re-assigning partners. Here are some of my favorite team building board games:

Code Names: This is one of my favorite games of all time and is both fun and challenging.

Apples to Apples: This is great for getting to know your team's personality preferences.

Candyland: For pure nostalgia, bring out Candyland AND some bowls of candy along with it. Everyone will be feeling sweet by the end!

My full list of favorite games for bonding here!

Why it's not awkward: Have people vote for which board game they want to play. Oftentimes board games bring up great memories and get people out of their typical work roles. It's an easy way to bring fun into your team.

Special Tip: If you really want to bring a team closer, consider hosting a game night (I have special tips for this here) at your home for the team. Invite spouses, BBQ dinner or do a potluck. This is a great way to bond quickly.
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Virtual Murder Mystery Party

Time recommendation: 60 minutes

Virtual Teams: YES. It's all virtual.

Have you ever wanted to solve a murder mystery? Without the actual um... murder part, perhaps? Then trying a murder mystery might be for you!

A virtual murder mystery is basically like playing "Clue" except it's all virtual and a lot more elaborate. Clues, trivia, scavenger hunts, reading case files, and examining clues are all parts of a murder mystery.

Activity: Check out one of Snacknation's 27 Virtual Murder Mystery Party Ideas. There are so many types of virtual mystery parties that there's practically one for every virtual team out there, including:

Why it's not awkward: Most people love solving mysteries. And it's even better since they require teamwork. Hosting a virtual murder mystery is also a fantastic way to solve a problem and get those creative juices flowing.
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Start, Stop, Continue

Time recommendation: 20 minutes to 40 minutes

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

Do you want your team building activity to be work-related? Great! Then the exercise "Start, Stop, Continue" is for you. This exercise is great for resetting goals on a team. Need to kickoff the New Year right? Start with "Start." You even can do this team building activity once per month! We do it on my team all the time.

Activity: An overview of one of my favorite team building exercises.

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Food Friends

Time recommendation: One meal's worth!

Virtual Teams: No

One of the fastest ways to create bonds between people is to add food. It's the ultimate commonality - we are human, so we all eat! This great research even found that eating the same food can increase people's trust. You can use food in many ways for a team building activity:

Host a cooking class. Have a team retreat at a local cooking school and then do team icebreakers over the shared meal.

Cook together. If you really want to get personal, host people at your home and do your own impromptu cooking class together.

Potluck. Not a great cook? Don't worry! Host a potluck at a local park, for a Friday lunch in the boardroom, or at a team member's home. Then people can show off their cooking skills if they like, or bring a goodie from a local bakery.

Catered meals. The last choice here is simply bringing in more catered lunches or breakfasts to your monthly meetings. Remember, every time you feed people they get less hangry and bond more.

Why it's not awkward: Food is the easiest way to make conversation - even with colleagues who don't know each other that well. Especially if you have an introvert who is an expert baker, they might be able to use food as the ultimate bonding agent.
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Professional Development Videos

Time recommendation: 10 minutes

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

A great team bonding activity is watching a professional development video and having a short discussion. You can do these at the start of weekly meetings or even send them out ahead of time for people to watch on their own before a short discussion. You also can have team members send suggestions to the group based on their findings. Hopefully, the videos can spark learning and conversation! We have tons of free professional development videos on our YouTube channel.

Activity: Send out these videos ahead of a meeting to be discussed or use them as an icebreaker and watch them together at the start of a meeting. Here are some of my favorites you can start with:

Why it's not awkward: Learning is a wonderful way to keep employees engaged and stimulated on a team. Watching a video from outside the organization also can bring in some fresh perspective and stimulate interesting conversation.
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Use Nostalgia to Build Trust on a Team

Time recommendation: 5 minutes to 20 minutes

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

Why do we do team building activities at all? Trust! It's incredibly important to do trust building activities for your team. There are a few ways you can trigger more trust on your team - and no, not with trust falls! No one likes those. My favorite non-awkward way to build trust for your team members is by using: Nostalgia. Nostalgia is a sweet emotion that is one of the fastest ways to build connections. And it's very easy to use as a trust building activity with what I call "nostalgic icebreakers."

Activity: Ask one (or all) of the following questions. In a small group have everyone take turns answering, in a big group have people partner up. Choose from one of these nostalgic icebreakers:

What is your favorite childhood memory?

What was the best present you ever received?

Who was your role model growing up?

What was the best birthday of your life?

What have been the highlights of your life?

Bonus: Bring in a favorite childhood photo and share a story about it with the group.

Why it's not awkward: Sure, childhood can be a little awkward, but these icebreakers allow team members to choose the most favorable memories to relive. In this way you harness nostalgia without the embarrassing memories.
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Alphabet Work

Time recommendation: 30 minutes

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

This team building activity will help your team understand skill levels and expertise. One of the hardest parts about integrating new team members can be learning about each other's strengths and weaknesses. This exercise is a wonderful one to do once or twice a year, especially when merging teams or bringing on new members. I call it Alphabet Work.

Activity: Here is an explanation of Alphabet Work and video overview:

Why it's not awkward: This activity should help ease any tensions or awkwardness already lurking on a team. Have people been stepping on each other's toes? Do you sense competition between members? Do this exercise ASAP!
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Teach Me!

Time recommendation: 15 minutes for each person

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

One of the best ways to build confidence on a team is encouraging people to be an expert in their field. Most team members share their professional expertise with their team every day, but they don't often get the chance to show other areas of expertise. A great exercise is having each team member teach the group something. This could be anything from how to make sushi, to how to read sheet music, to how to arrange flowers, to 10 words in Spanish. The goal here is giving each team member a few minutes to teach the group something non-work related. You could have a teaching day, where everyone shares or you could assign one person a week. This is a GREAT way to kick off a weekly meeting, with a new teacher each week.

Activity: Set aside teaching time during a meeting and give people 15 minutes per person to present. Do this in one big teaching day or at the start of each meeting until every person on your team has had a turn to go.

Why it's not awkward: You are giving team members a chance to show off in a safe way. This is also a great way for team members to learn about each other. The best part is, they choose what they teach. Simple or complex - it's up to them!
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The One Question Icebreaker

Time recommendation: 10 minute per icebreaker

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

Want to keep it simple? The one question icebreaker at the start or end of a meeting is one of the easiest ways to get team members to know each other and connect. I have a few favorites below, and the full list of our professional icebreaker activities to warm up any meeting here.

Activity: Have everyone go around and answer one of the following icebreakers. In a small group everyone can answer for the room. In a big group have people partner up and answer one of the following:

What's one thing the group doesn't know about you?

What's your favorite TV show?

What's your favorite meal?

What's your dream vacation spot?

What book, movie or TV character is most like you?

If you could meet any person, living or dead, who would it be?

Bonus: Do Show & Tell. Another fun icebreaker is to have people bring in one item to show and tell. You can do these all in one day or assign a new person each week. It's a great pre-meeting icebreaker.

Why it's not awkward: These questions are designed to have no wrong answer. In this way, people can feel free to open up as much or as little as they please. This allows introverts to open up more slowly and extroverts to take the stage in a controlled way.
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Book Club

Time recommendation: 60 minutes

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

Reading is a great way to promote team cohesion AND learning. You can choose to do a team book club with a fun fiction book or assign the team to read a professional development book on a skill that will help with their work. Even better - let each team member rotate picking the book for the month. Then at the end of the month have that team member lead the discussion over a lunchtime session. You will get a variety of books and opinions. Here are some great books we recommend, with corresponding summary articles you are welcome to use for your discussions.

Activity: Discuss one book over a meeting and vote on next month's selection.

Why it's not awkward: Rotating book choices is a great way to make sure everyone gets a turn and different interests are being tickled. It also allows people to share their personal favorite books with colleagues and have something new to bond about.
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Bonus: Learn Team Science

Time recommendation: 10 minute warm-up at the start of weekly meetings

Virtual Teams: Great for phone and video conferencing

Here's a bonus for you: The ultimate team building activity is learning about team science together. You have a few ways to do this. First, I recommend watching a video to be discussed at the start of each meeting as a warm-up.

Activity: Here are some specific resources we have on team science you can watch together (or send these videos out ahead of time to be discussed):

You also can take courses together. This can be a short and sweet class on a small professional skill, such as speed-reading or writing in shorthand. You also could bring in an expert to speak to your group or lead a workshop. You also can have your team go through an online training session together. There are many great options out there! Here are a few we can help with:

Live Trainings: I lead innovative science-based communication workshops on body language, leadership and soft skills. More here.

Online Training: Our flagship corporate training course is called People School. We have hundreds of students from Fortune 500 companies all over the world who take our trainings as a team. Email us for more info for your company at [email protected]

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These 13 Behaviors are common to high-trust leaders and people throughout the world. As you work on behaving in ways that build trust, one helpful way to visualize and quantify your efforts is by thinking in terms of "Trust Accounts." Remember, just like relationships, each trust account is unique; all deposits and withdrawals are not created equal; and what constitutes a deposit to one person may not to another.

All 13 Behaviors require a combination of both character and competence. The first five flow initially from character, the second five from competence, and the last three from an almost equal mix of character and competence.

Taken to the extreme, however, these Behaviors do not build trust, and the "opposite" or "counterfeit" of each Behavior creates the biggest withdrawals.

Character-Based Behaviors

Behavior #1: Talk Straight.

Communicate clearly so that you cannot be misunderstood. Preface your discussions by declaring your intent, so you leave no doubt about what you are thinking. Counterfeit behaviors include withholding information, flattery, and spin. Be honest and call things what they are. Don't manipulate people distort facts or leave false impressions.

Behavior #2: Demonstrate Respect.

This behavior is based on the principles of respect, fairness, kindness, love, and civility. The opposite is commonly experienced as showing disrespect, which is a huge issue, both at work and at home. The counterfeit is to fake respect or concern, or, most insidious of all, to show respect and concern for only those who can do something for you.

Behavior #3: Create Transparency.

Be real and genuine and tell the truth in a way that people can verify. The opposite is to obscure, and the counterfeit is an illusion of pretending things are different than they are. You can establish trust quickly by being open and authentic, erring on the side of disclosure and not having hidden agendas.

Behavior #4: Right Wrongs.

Make restitution instead of just apologizing. The opposite is to deny or justify wrongs because of ego and pride, and the counterfeit is to cover up mistakes. Apologize quickly, take action to make restitution when possible, and demonstrate personal humility to achieve this behavior.

Behavior #5: Show Loyalty.

Give credit to others and speak about people as though they are present. The opposite is to take credit or not represent people fairly. The counterfeit is to appear to share credit but then downplay others' contribution when they are away. To exhibit a trustworthy character, give credit freely, don't badmouth people behind their backs and don't disclose others' private information.

Competence-Based Behaviors

Behavior #6: Deliver Results.

This is a way to convert cynics and establish trust in a new relationship. Because it is often difficult to measure results, take time to define results upfront. By establishing a track record, making the right things happen, being on time and on budget, and not making excuses for not delivering, you quickly restore lost trust on the competence side.

Behavior #7: Get Better.

Continuously improve by learning, growing and renewing yourself. Others will develop confidence in your ability to succeed in a rapidly changing environment. The opposite is entropy and deterioration, while the counterfeit is the eternal student - always learning, but never producing. Don't be afraid to make mistakes but learn from them. Develop formal and informal feedback systems and respond to them.

Behavior #8: Confront Reality.

Take the tough issues head-on. This affects speed and cost by facilitating open interaction and fast achievement and also allowing you to engage the creativity, capability, and synergy of others in solving problems. When leaders use the opposite behavior by ignoring problems, they pay a huge tax when people feel they are being dishonest. It is far better to address the real issues and lead courageously in discussions of uncomfortable topics.

Behavior #9: Clarify Expectations.

Create shared vision and agreement up front. The opposite is to leave undefined expectations and the counterfeit is to be vague about specifics. Consider that most circumstances encompass three variables - quality, speed, and cost - but you can only have two. Always discuss and reveal expectations, and never assume they are clear or shared. Renegotiate if necessary, but don't violate expectations once they have been validated.

Behavior #10: Practice Accountability.

Hold yourself and others accountable. Leaders who generate trust do both. The opposite is not to take responsibility, and the counterfeit is to point fingers. Other people respond to accountability - particularly performers. They want to be held accountable. Don't avoid or shirk responsibility, and be clear on how you'll communicate progress.

Character & Competence Behaviors

Behavior #11: Listen First.

Genuinely understand another person's thoughts and feelings, before trying to diagnose or advise. The opposite and counterfeit are to speak first and listen last, or not at all, and to pretend to listen while waiting for your own chance to speak. Listening teaches you which behaviors create dividends. Use your eyes and your gut to listen as well as your ears, and don't presume you know what matters to others.

Behavior #12: Keep Commitments.

It is the quickest way to build trust in any relationship. The opposite is to break commitments and the counterfeit is to make vague, unreliable commitments, or never make them in the first place. Some cultures view commitments differently, and understanding the difference is key to getting dividends and avoiding trust taxes. People tend to see family commitments as more flexible than work commitments, but they are just as important. Make keeping all commitments the symbol of your honor.

Behavior #13: Extend Trust.

Shift trust from a noun to a verb. While the other Behaviors help you become a more trusted person or manager, this 13th Behavior helps you become a more trusting leader. Extending trust leverages it to create reciprocity. The opposite is withholding trust. The counterfeit is extending false trust by giving people responsibility, but no authority or resources to complete a task. There is also fake trust that seems like trust until you follow-up behind people and micromanage. Based on the situation, extend conditionally to those who are earning your trust, but extend it abundantly to those who have earned it.
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Instructional Playbooks

Instructional coaches need to have a deep understanding of the strategies that they share with teachers. The purpose of the instructional playbooks is to help coaches deepen their knowledge of the high-impact strategies identified and effectively help teachers improve their practice.

In instructional coaching, there are a lot of ups and downs. It is essential that you have evidence-based instructional practices to draw from so that you're on the right side of providing effective support to teachers. Using these resources will ensure that you are successful in helping teachers improve their practice and not left behind by them.

Below you will see links to two Instructional Playbooks--one created from the viewpoint of secondary educators and one for elementary educators. Either one of them could have applicability to any level.

Teams of Jordan School District instructional coaches and teacher specialists worked to create the playbook pages during the 2021-2022 school year.

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Instructional Playbooks Instructional coaches need to have a deep understanding of the strategies that they share with teachers. The purpose of the instructional playbooks is to help coaches deepen their knowledge of the high-impact strategies identified and effectively help teachers improve their practice. In instructional coaching, there are a lot of ups and downs.