Team Building What is a team and how

Team Building What 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 Jump to first page

What is a Team? n n “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”. Jump to first page

A Successful Team n n n Common objectives Commitment Communication Confidence Enjoyment Good Leadership n n n Involvement Mutual Trust Role Identity Standards Supportive Well Trained Jump to first page

Benefits of Team Working n n 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 n n n n 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 Jump to first page

Stages of forming a team n FORMING n n n n 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 n n 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 Jump to first page

Team Storming n n n 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. Jump to first page

Team Performing n n n n Communications Exercise Interviews - What job is it? Exercise - Walk through a sheet of A 4 paper. Exercise - SWOT analysis Objective setting, Procedures - Protocols Appraisal - Video and Training Juggling - without passing to next Jump to first page

Team Norming n n n Problem solving Exercise - individual problems for others to solve Exercise - What time is it [cards] Communications - messages Exercise - Disney Jump to first page

Team Mourning n n n 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] AWARENESS Know all | Others Know You know | No one knows Jump to first page