Team Building

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Team Building

• Beverly M. Kelbaugh, Ph. D. Extension Agent,
  Chair, Franklin County, OSU Extension

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Teams

• Team is a group of people who work together to
  achieve a desired outcome
• People become a team when they work together
  interdependently and synergistically to
  accomplish something.
• (Wellins, Byham Wilson, 1991)
• Teamwork is a series of complementary and
  mutually reinforcing behaviors completed in a
  group (Snow, 1992)

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Why Teams

• Use of teams increased dramatically in all
  organizations in the last decade
• Teams are an appropriate structure for
  implementing strategies formulated to deal with
  performance demands and opportunities presented
  by the changing business environment.
• (Mohrman, Cohen Mohrman, 1995)

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Why Teams Cont.

• Teams are recognized as a fit between strategy
  and organizational design which leads to a
  competitive advantage.
• Galbraith, Lawler and Associates, 1993 Nadler,
  Gerstein, Shaw and Associates 1992)

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Purpose of Teambuilding

• Teambuilding is designed to help people who work
  together to function more effectively in teams
  and to assist the team itself to work more
  effectively as a whole
• (Moxon, 1993)

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Team Building

• Teambuilding can be defined as a structured
  attempt to improve/develop effectiveness of a
  group of people who work together
• (Clark, 1994, Moxon,1993)
• Each team member should have a notion of constant
  improvement in order for a company or team to
  continually improve
• (Byham,1990)

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Teambuilding

• A deliberate process of facilitating the
  evolution of a close and effective work group so
  that
• Team leadership is coherent, visionary and
  acceptable
• The teams roles, functions and deliverables are
  clearly understood
• Members of the team have emotionally signed up
  and dedicated their efforts to collective
  achievement
• There is positive, energetic and empowering
  climate in the work group
• Informal and formal meetings are efficient and
  make good use of time and available resources
• Weaknesses in team capability have been diagnosed
  and their negative effects mitigated or
  eliminated (Woodcock Francis, 1994)

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Teambuilding

• The best teambuilding happens when selected
  activities meet identified needs of the team or
  address as needed skills and competencies.
• Teambuilding in a workplace is a task-oriented
  activity. The task alone provides the context in
  which it becomes appropriate to discuss processes
  and procedures and individual behavior
• (Moxon, 1993)

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Teams

• Teams can allow Extension and other organizations
  to be more responsive in dealing with new demands
  and opportunities in a rapidly changing world.
• Allow for organizational flexibility
• Integration of knowledge , experience and
  perspective that cannot be held by one person.
  (Donnellon, 1996)

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Why Teams are Important in Extension

• Teams represent an aspect of teaching that,
  enables learning beyond the campus walls, that
  aspect of research that makes what we discover
  useful beyond the academic community and that
  aspect of service directly benefiting the public
• (OSU 1995 Council for Outreach and Engagement)

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Effective Teams

• Effective teams are self-directed and are made up
  of small groups of people empowered to manage
  themselves and the work they do on a daily
  basis. (Wellins, Byuham Wilson, 1991)

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Types of Teams

• Leader Directed
• Leader Facilitated
• Leader Coached
• Empowered Team

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Characteristics of Effective Teams

• Team leadership
• Team direction
• Information
• Team processes
• Clear roles and responsibilities
• Adequate resources
• Physical
• Human
• Financial

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Stages of Team Development

• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing