Team Building
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This document discusses the key aspects of effective team building. It defines a team as a collection of individuals working together towards a common goal. The benefits of teamwork include sharing knowledge and skills, division of labor, and improved communication. Challenges can include clashes of personality, power struggles, and poor communication. Teams typically go through forming, storming, norming, performing, and mourning stages as they develop. Maintaining good communication, focusing on shared goals, and ensuring equality among members can help teams be successful. Individual roles and strengths, as well as ongoing training, are important for optimizing team dynamics and performance.
Team Building
- 1. Team Building Charlotte Leggatt MDN Facilitator Practice Manager
- 2. Objectives Understand what a team is Understand what aids and prevents good teamwork Understand the important of team work Understand the cycle of teams Group Dynamics Any others?
- 3. Thinking about teams What do you understand by the word team? Or how would you describe a team?
- 4. What is a team? A team is a collection of individuals who join together to achieve a common goal. By working together, the members achieve synergy; that is the team performs more effectively than the sum total of the individual members contributions.
- 5. What is a team A common goal or aim A clear structure, often including a recognised leader An agreed way of working An understanding of each others roles Support each other Recognised stages of development
- 6. Benefits of working as a team How many benefits of teamworking can you identify? If your team (or a team you have worked in previously) is not functioning effectively you may not be enjoying a benefit but still list the benefits and aspire to them
- 7. Benefits Each member contributes and shares knowledge and skills Teamwork allows division of labour People know who to approach in the team People cannot play one member off against another Communication is improved Opportunities for learning together and enhances mutual esteem
- 8. Short comings Think about a team you have worked in which has not worked well? Why was that? What went wrong?
- 9. Shortcomings Individuals not recognising others perspectives (all different, all bring different qualities) – clashes of personality The battle for power! Sharing or surrendering authority Divided loyalties Poor communication Is the team complete? Absences It takes time to set up and function
- 10. Team Formation and Stages Forming Storming Norming Performing Mourning A normal cycle of team formation
- 11. FORMING The Team FORMS as a new person joins. Everyone works out their role Everyone gets to know their job
- 12. STORMING A very rocky period Some teams do not survive this Each individual works out their role within the team
- 13. NORMING Individuals discover the way things are done What is and what is not acceptable
- 14. PERFORMING Only once individuals are settled can the group become a team The work gets done There are good results There is a shared purpose There is job satisfaction The team begins to perform
- 15. MOURNING When someone leaves the team is no longer a team This can be sad The group reverts to stage 1 – FORMING This will happen whether or not the team member is replaced The cycle returns to the beginning High staff turnover makes team development difficult
- 16. Communication How do individuals in your team express their concerns? Inform other of what is happening? Provide good or bad news? How do you get to hear about things?
- 17. Poor Communication Can prevent teams working effectively Can lead to isolation Jealousy of position and fear Establishing power basis by holding into information
- 18. Aids To Useful Teamwork A good leader who inspires others but who also respects others and their opinions Regularly re-focus on the common goal Equality – is each person part of the team? No one person’s contribution should be seen as less worthy than anyone elses
- 19. Conflict Recognise that it does and will happen We all have different perspectives Ignore it at you peril!!!! Can conflict be a good thing? Yes, yes…..because conflict brings challenges, challenges bring change. Learn how to give and take feedback
- 20. Group Dynamics Within teams people tend to occupy particular roles Behavioural scientists have classified these – Meredith Belbin is the most well known Some people are natural leaders, others are followers, some keen to generate ideas, others good at finishing tasks
- 21. Group Dynamics Best teams contain a mix of team types and are not dominated by one particular type Remember the perspectives pictures – we are all different and come from a variety of different backgrounds with different viewpoints Different is good = each role is equally important to a team
- 22. Belbins Individually complete the belbins self perception inventory This should take about 15 minutes – do not analyse the questions too deeply – go on your gut instinct There is not right or wrong answer – only the aswer that fits you.
- 23. Team Roles Implementer Co-ordinator Shaper Plant Resource Investigator Monitor/Evaluator Team Worker Completer/Finisher
- 24. Where could your team improve? Undertake a SWOT analysis of your team Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
- 25. Training for teams Training is vital. Training as a team and training as individuals in skills and knowledge bases can make the difference between a team that merely gets there and a team that succeeds with style. Look at your SWOT – where could things be improved by training? Or grasping an opportunity? Or staving off a threat?
- 26. In summary Teams are made and not born Teams need a common goal Teams need a leader Individuals are “individual” Individuals make up teams Each individual has their own skills = each is equal in the team
- 27. Your contribution Do you believe in the goal – if you don’t share in the goal are you in the right job? Responsibility is jointly shared by the team, not harboured by a few individuals Be prepared to give up autonomy Share information and skills – be prepared to give up individual power basis.