TEAM BUILDING

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TEAM BUILDING

• Ag Ed 811
• Janel Digby and Joy Ewing

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Objectives

• Define team and teamwork.
• Describe the team building process.
• Examine the role of leadership on teams.
• Analyze personality styles and the relation to
  teamwork.

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Merriam-Websters Definitions

• Team
• Noun a number of persons associated together in
  work or activity
• Verb to put together in a coordinated ensemble
• Adjective of or performed by a team (a team
  effort) marked by devotion to teamwork rather
  than individual achievement (a team player)
• Teamwork
• Work done by several associates with each doing a
  part but all subordinating personal prominence to
  the efficiency of the whole

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Team Building

• Find a partner
• Choose one person to be the leader and one person
  to be the team.
• Sit back to back.
• Leader read instructions to team.
• Both individuals perform task as described by
  instructions.

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Team Building Exercise Debrief

• Did you both end up with the same results?
• Why did the projects differ?
• Clear communication, especially for complex
  issues is critical in working with others.

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Team Building

• What is the purpose of a team building activity?
• Is your team of two complete?
• The process continues even after the single
  event.
• What happens when a new person is hired?

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Team Building Process

• What Happens to the Team During Teambuilding?
  Examining the Change Process that Helps to Build
  a Team
• Three day team building retreat at the beginning
  of an intensive one year MBA course.

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Themes reported by Participants

• Speaking to and getting to know (ice breaker
  phase)
• Refusal of leader
• For the benefit of the team
• Team spirit, having fun and motivation
• Task orientation outcomes
• Task orientation processes
• Relationship orientation processes
• Unfinished business the team as still becoming

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Demotivation of teams

• Two sources of demotivation identified for teams
• Conditions of tasks/experience
• Unfulfilled expectations of team members

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Effective Team Leaders

• Teams with effective leaders are associated with
  higher quality services and more cost-effective
  operations.
• Team members must perceive their team leaders to
  be effective.
• Four factors team member satisfaction, teams
  leaders performance, conflict resolution, and
  openness in communication.

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Results of the Four Factors

• Team leaders play an important part in team
  members satisfaction
• Team leaders assess their performance more
  favorably than their team members
• Team members are less satisfied with their team
  leaders conflict resolution style
• Team leaders and team members perceptions of the
  team leaders openness in communication was similar

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Team Leaders and Creativity

• Team leaders communication style can enhance the
  teams creativity
• Two factors
• Team leaders communication style
• Team members perception of the team leaders
  communication style

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Team Leader Communication Style

• Two styles
• Supportive supervisory style
• Enhances individual motivation
• Examples I think it might be a good idea
  Do you agree?
• Controlling style
• Decreases individual motivation
• Examples You have no choice, these are the
  rules! Ill give each of you a minute and then
  I want each of you to have an idea!

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Team Leader Communication Style

• This article concluded that team leaders
  communication style plays an important part in
  the groups creativity.

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Team Members Perceptions

• Team member may believe that they are exhibiting
  a supportive supervisory communication style
• But the team members must perceive their team
  leaders communication style to be the supportive
  supervisory style

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Conclusions about Team Leaders and Creativity

• To enhance creativity within the team, team
  leaders must use a supportive supervisory
  communication style and team members must
  perceive that their team leaders are using this
  style

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Personality Assessment

• Choose the shape you find most appealing.
  Consider both form and color.
• Simple test found on web many others that are
  more involved

http//www.cs.ucr.edu/chua/test/test.html
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Personality Assessment and Teams

• Teaching Teams to be Teams An Exercise Using the
  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Five-Factor
  Personality Traits
• Organizational behavior college class required to
  complete group projects. Personality assessments
  and interpretations of assessments completed.

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Personality Assessment and Teams

• Identification of personalities increased
  appreciation of individual differences.
• Provided an understanding of behavior of self and
  others.
• Caution self-fulfilling prophecy could occur.
• Personality tests provide preferences, we are
  capable of adapting.

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References

• Clinebell, S., Stecher, M. (2003). Teaching
  Teams to be Teams An Exercise Using the
  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Five-Factor
  Personality Traits. Journal of Management
  Education 27(3), 362-384.
• Jeanquart-Miles, S. (2002). The impact of team
  leader performance on team member satisfaction
  The subordinates perspective. Team Performance
  Management An International Journal, 8(5/6),
  113-121.
• Rushmer, R. (1997). During Teambuilding?
  Examining the Change Process that Helps to Build
  a Team . Journal of Management, 16 (5), 316-327.
• Thacker, R. A. (1997). Team leader style
  Enhancing the creativity of employees in teams.
  Training for Quality, 5(4), 146-149

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Questions?

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