Unit 8 Team building

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Unit 8 Teambuilding

• basic concept of team
• basic concept of team building

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Team

• What is a team?

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Team

• Small group of people with complementary skills
  who are committed to a common purpose, set of
  performance goals, approach for which they hold
  themselves mutually accountable.
• A group of people is not a team.
• Examples?

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Why teams?

• Two heads are better than one.
• We must all hang together or most assuredly we
  will all hang separately.
• Benjamin
  Franklin
• Synergy the creation of a whole that is greater
  than the sum of its parts.

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Why teams?

• Discussion
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of
  working in teams?

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Teamwork team building

• Team building Process of establishing and
  developing a greater sense of collaboration and
  trust between team members
• Team building involves more than throwing a few
  people together.
• Reading p.70 Successful team working
• Listening p.71 Building a team

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Team building

• Five Stages of Team Development
• Forming team members get to know each other.
• Storming interpersonal conflicts begin to
  surface.
• Norming team members settle differences with
  establishment of order and cohesion. Members feel
  closer together and the conflicts are settled, or
  at least forgotten.
• Performing team members work well together.
• Adjouring/Mourning team disbands following
  completion of its task.

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Team roles
Task Specialist Devotes time and energy to
accomplishing team goals
Socio-Emotional Devotes time and energy to
encouraging team harmony
Team Member Roles
Dual Devotes time and energy to task
accomplishment and supporting team members
emotional needs
Nonparticipative Makes minimal contributions to
either tasks or team members socio-emotional
needs
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Case study Team building

• p.74 The new boss
• Debriefing
• What are your solutions or suggestions?
• How were the decisions made?
• Did anyone emerge as a leader?
• What kind of team player are you? (p.68)

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Challenges to team building

• Factors inhibiting or diminishing a teams
  effectiveness include
• Poor management style
• High turnover
• Improper emphasis on team development

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Barriers to team building

• Credibility of the project leader
• Unclear project objectives
• Changing goals and priorities
• Lack of team definition and structure
• Confusion about roles and responsibilities
• Performance appraisals that fail to recognize
  teamwork
• Excessive team size