SEND International is committed to teaming, but teams in SEND vary greatly in style, function, size and leadership. This session will explore expectations we have of our future team, and discuss the challenges that we face in creating functional teams on our different areas. We will seek to understand the role of the team leader and why team leaders are often reluctant to serve in this role. We will also emphasize the importance of good followership.

1. To identify personal expectations new missionaries have in the area of teaming
2. To discuss challenges that missionaries will face in working on teams
3. To compare the different types of teams in SEND
4. To commit to being good followers of their team leaders
5. To identify teaming principles through a team-building exercise

• Teaming: Expectations and Accountability handout

• SEND U blog articles
  • Are we a team?
  • Three different types of teams in SEND
    • The basketball type of team on the mission field
    • The track team on the mission field
    • The X-team on the mission field
• Crosswired Learning Path on the teaming includes:
  • a 2-hour module written by Ken Guenther on expectations. “My team isn't what I thought it would be”
  • a module on “Interpersonal Conflict Across Cultures”
• SEND U's Teaming Toolkit on SharePoint > the materials for a 3-day workshop to launch a new team
• SEND U Wiki
  • Team Building on the SEND U Wiki
  • Teaming in SEND Spain: A statement on teaming from SEND Spain, based on the SEND FER statement
  • Teaming in SEND North: A brief statement about how teaming works in SEND North
  • Who Me? Reluctant leadership and the progressive nature of God's call > an article by Warren Janzen, published in EMQ
• Books
  • I've Got Your Back: Biblical Principles for Leading and Following Well > book by James Galvin on good followership
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Websites
  • Building healthy teams > a website filled with practical help for cross-cultural teams designed by David Sedlacek, a missionary with TEAM

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