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Team BuildingWhat is a ‘team’ and how big should be to be efficient and effective?

What skills are required in your team?

How should you ‘organize’ your team?

Robert Campbell – June 2002

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What is a Team?

“A team is a group of [6] people working together with a common identity, to achieve common objectives and willing to commit all their energies necessary to ensuring that the objectives are achieved”.

“A team needs a sense of direction, a sense of belonging and a sense of identity”.

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A Successful Team Common

objectives Commitment Communication Confidence Enjoyment Good

Leadership

Involvement Mutual Trust Role Identity Standards Supportive Well Trained

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Benefits of Team Working

Achieve goals more quickly and more efficiently than working alone

Support and help each other to improve their skills

Become more confident and develop good interpersonal skills

Be more creative than individuals

Take risks that individuals may avoid

Be more flexible Show commitment to

the task and each other Share information,

knowledge and feelings Be self-motivated Enjoy their work by

being with other people Be easier to manage

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Stages of forming a team FORMING

People are polite to each other

Guarded in what they say or do

Test each other out Say a lot or very little The Leader will

assess individuals Strengths, and weaknesses, experience and aspirations, explain the teams aim and objectives

STORMING Feelings come out into

the open Team is focused on

inner conflicts Team copes poorly

under pressure Peacemakers paper

over cracks Team has unrealistic

view of its own effectiveness

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Team Storming Getting to know you? What skills and ‘qualities’ do you

bring to the ‘team’? Questonnaires - Clerical skills Belbin Personal Questionnaire Roles in a Team Leader, Shaper, Plant, Investigator,

Evaluator, Implementor, Team worker or Finisher.

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Team Performing Communications Exercise Interviews - What job is it? Exercise - Walk through a sheet of A4

paper. Exercise - SWOT analysis Objective setting, Procedures - Protocols Appraisal - Video and Training Juggling - without passing to next

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Team Norming Problem solving Exercise - individual problems for

others to solve Exercise - What time is it [cards] Communications - messages Exercise - Disney

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Team Mourning When a member leaves a team -

it’s back to the start again. Conflict - Unseen baggage [beliefs,

feelings, attitudes and values Awareness Looking toward the future Exercise - Lego Man [Planning]

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