Working in Groups

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Working in Groups

• Name of presenter

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Aims of the session

• Recognise how groups form and function
• Identify the inter-personal skills developed
  through group work
• Relate your knowledge of groups to team projects
  and other study groups
• Evaluate your developing inter-personal skills
  and action plan for change

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How is a group different to a team?

• Reflect individually on groups you have worked in
  socially, academically or in a work situation
• What made some groups feel like being part of a
  team?
• Be ready to share your thoughts in one minute

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Teams

• Are a group of people who have specific task(s)
  or goals(s)
• Effective teams will be organised
• Members will have specific allocated tasks and
  roles
• leader/coordinator, coach/mentor, achiever, doer,
  thinker/reflector, timekeeper, note taker,
  progress monitor, finisher/completer, carer

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Teams Action centred leadership model (John
Adair, 1986)
Achieving the TASK
Developing the INDIVIDUAL
Maintaining the TEAM
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Task orientated behaviour

• Identifying aims, resources, people, methods for
  the task
• Creating a plan to achieve the task
• Seeking information/opinions about plans, ideas
• Giving information/opinions about the task
• Allocating work responsibilities and resources
• Checking performance against the plan and
  adjusting the plan if needed

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Team building behaviour

• Encouraging others towards the group goals
• Enable effective internal communications
• Develop collective maturity and capability
• Maintaining group discipline, ethics
• Harmonising reducing tension and building team
  spirit
• Problem solving listening to others
• Expressing group feelings

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Individual needs behaviour

• Recognising own skills/abilities and using them
• Assisting and supporting individuals
• Understanding team members as individuals,
  listening to them
• Giving feedback to individuals
• Withdrawing, being very quiet in discussion
• Being aggressive/dominating communication

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Stages in team/group development

• Forming
• when the group begins to discuss the task(s) and
  orientate towards a work plan
• Storming
• conflicts and tensions emerge when there are
  different working styles, differing expectations
  and different work ethics
• Norming
• beginning to develop mutual trust and effective
  ways of working
• Performing
• when effective work patterns are producing the
  required results

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Action planning for team skills development

• List the teams you currently work within
  (seminars, tutorials, fieldwork, project team,
  study group, peer learning group)
• What could you do to make these teams more
  effective? Which roles would you like to develop?
  
• Set some time targets and review dates
• Complete an assessment on your team skills

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