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Re: Mentors VS Students

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Originally Posted by dcbrown View Post
groups go through the forming, norming, storming, and performing stages... but often get stuck in "storming" due to conflicting goals and expectations.
Looking forward to this fall your team might want to engage in a series of structured activities. It can accomplish two things. It helps the group move through the group dynamics stated above. That helps a lot when the build season starts. And it give the group an opportunity to do some fun stuff. It is tough getting to the performing stage in 6 weeks with a group that hasn't worked together before.

Our team did a series of exercises all through the fall and it is paying benefits now. I wish we had done the MOE egg toss trebuchet. But our other stuff was good enough.
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