Step 2: Small Group Breakout Session
Activity | Small Group Breakout: TRIO Draft Purpose Statements
Pro Tips:
• Remind participants to complete and bring their individual journaling exercises from Step 1 to the session.
• Ask the participants to break out into groups of three individuals.
• Share the “Team purpose statement draft” with group participants.
• After the groups have formed, share the activity objective and steps.
Objective
By the end of the session each trio will create a draft team purpose statement in the following format “We will feel proud of this team in two years from now when…“
Steps
- Person A shares their individual team purpose statement from the prework that finishes the statement, “I will feel proud of this team 2 years from now when…”
- Cut and paste the statement into the cloud-based document, “Team Purpose Statement Draft.”
- Person B & C listen then share what they LIKE about Person A’s statement (highlight these aspects in the “Team Purpose Statement Draft” document).
- Then, repeat Steps 1-2 for Persons B & C.
- Once all TRIO members have shared, all members of the TRIO discuss the following:
- What themes are we seeing across all three statements?
- What differences may we honor?
- Craft an initial team purpose statement that integrates the fewest most essential aspects that effectively finish the statement,
- “We will feel proud of this team 2 years from now when…”
- Consider aspects that may need to be added, omitted, or rephrased.
- Paste your TRIO draft team purpose statement into the Master Team Template Google Doc in your assigned block.