Team Building

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Team Building

• What is a team and how big should be to be
  efficient and effective?
• What skills are required in your team?
• How should you organize your team?
• Robert Campbell June 2002

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What is a Team?

• A team is a group of 6 people working together
  with a common identity, to achieve common
  objectives and willing to commit all their
  energies necessary to ensuring that the
  objectives are achieved.
• A team needs a sense of direction, a sense of
  belonging and a sense of identity.

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A Successful Team

• Common objectives
• Commitment
• Communication
• Confidence
• Enjoyment
• Good Leadership

• Involvement
• Mutual Trust
• Role Identity
• Standards
• Supportive
• Well Trained

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Benefits of Team Working

• Achieve goals more quickly and more efficiently
  than working alone
• Support and help each other to improve their
  skills
• Become more confident and develop good
  interpersonal skills
• Be more creative than individuals

• Take risks that individuals may avoid
• Be more flexible
• Show commitment to the task and each other
• Share information, knowledge and feelings
• Be self-motivated
• Enjoy their work by being with other people
• Be easier to manage

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Stages of forming a team

• FORMING
• People are polite to each other
• Guarded in what they say or do
• Test each other out
• Say a lot or very little
• The Leader will assess individuals Strengths, and
  weaknesses, experience and aspirations, explain
  the teams aim and objectives

• STORMING
• Feelings come out into the open
• Team is focused on inner conflicts
• Team copes poorly under pressure
• Peacemakers paper over cracks
• Team has unrealistic view of its own
  effectiveness

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Team Storming

• Getting to know you?
• What skills and qualities do you bring to the
  team?
• Questonnaires - Clerical skills
• Belbin Personal Questionnaire
• Roles in a Team
• Leader, Shaper, Plant, Investigator, Evaluator,
  Implementor, Team worker or Finisher.

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Team Performing

• Communications
• Exercise Interviews - What job is it?
• Exercise - Walk through a sheet of A4 paper.
• Exercise - SWOT analysis
• Objective setting,
• Procedures - Protocols
• Appraisal - Video and Training
• Juggling - without passing to next

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Team Norming

• Problem solving
• Exercise - individual problems for others to
  solve
• Exercise - What time is it cards
• Communications - messages
• Exercise - Disney

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Team Mourning

• When a member leaves a team - its back to the
  start again.
• Conflict - Unseen baggage beliefs, feelings,
  attitudes and values
• Awareness
• Looking toward the future
• Exercise - Lego Man Planning

AWARENESS Know all Others Know You know No
one knows