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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]
AWARENESSKnow all | Others Know
You know | No one knows
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