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Title: Team Building


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Team Building
  • APAMSA Leadership Development Module

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Team Building
Relations-Oriented Behaviors
  • Identify common interests and team values to
    unify team members
  • Incorporate symbols, ceremonies, and rituals to
    develop social cohesiveness

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
3
Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Leadership Challenge (23)
  • Team Building
  • Cohesiveness and cooperation are two common goals
    of team building
  • Describe your approach to Team Building and
    briefly explain how your methods increased team
    cohesiveness, mutual cooperation, and team
    identification

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Team Building
Guidelines For Team Building
  • Common interests and values
  • Ceremonies and rituals
  • Symbols
  • Social interaction
  • Publicize activities
  • Process analysis
  • Alignment sessions
  • Incentives for cooperation

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 71-72)
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Team Building
Common Interests Values
  • Group identity is dependent upon shared goals and
    strategies to attain them
  • Appeal to team members for their cooperation by
    emphasizing mutual interests and values

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Ceremonies Rituals
  • Make group identity special with ceremonies and
    rituals that emphasize team values
  • Initiation rituals for new members, and
    celebration rituals for departing members
  • Ceremonies can celebrate special achievements or
    anniversaries

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Symbols
  • Create a symbol for group identity
  • Symbols can be a team name, color, slogan, logo,
    insignia, or emblem
  • Display symbols on business letters, flyers,
    banners, clothing

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
8
Team Building
Social Interaction
  • Build cohesiveness among team members with
    pleasant social interaction
  • Host periodic social activities like dinners,
    lunches, picnics, barbeques
  • Go on team outings to sports events or concerts,
    go camping or hiking

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
9
Team Building
Publicize Activities
  • Tell people about group plans, activities, and
    achievements
  • Explain the importance of these plans, activities
    and achievements relative to team objectives
  • Communicate a sense of excitement, fun and zest
    in all that is being done

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
10
Team Building
Process Analysis
  • Hold frank discussion of interpersonal
    relationships and group interactions
  • Consider how people are communicating, working
    together, making decisions, and resolving
    conflicts
  • Discuss strengths in work relations and ways to
    improve any weak points

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
11
Team Building
Alignment Sessions
  • Negative stereotypes are common with diverse team
    members with varied opinions
  • Increase mutual understanding by holding
    alignment sessions
  • Sessions involve each member answering several
    personal career questions

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
12
Team Building
Alignment Sessions
  • Questions may ask about your values, concerns,
    and personal objectives
  • How do you want to be remembered?
  • What is most often misunderstood about you?
  • What type of work is most satisfying?
  • What type of work is most frustrating?
  • How would you like to change your role?

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
13
Team Building
Alignment Sessions
  • Each person will be given time to answer these
    questions to help others understand them and be
    appreciated

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
14
Team Building
Incentives For Participation
  • Provide incentives for mutual cooperation
  • Incentives that reward group performance
    encourage cooperation
  • Whereas incentives that reward individual
    performance encourage competition
  • Offer rewards for high team performance to value
    team service

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Summary
  • Team Building
  • Cohesiveness and cooperation are two common goals
    of team building
  • Identify common interests and team values to
    unify team members
  • Utilize the Guidelines for Team Building to
    increase cohesiveness, mutual cooperation, and
    team identification

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Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Next Topic
  • Encouraging Participation
  • Our next module discusses guidelines for
    assessing the need for participation and
    encouraging others to participate

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Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Sources
  • G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations, New Jersey
    Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338
  • Free Management Library
  • www.managementhelp.org/ldrship/ldrship.htm
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