1. basic concept of team basic concept of team building
Unit 8 Team building
basic concept of team
basic concept of team building

2. Team
What is a team?

3. Team
Small group of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of performance goals, approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
A group of people is not a team.
Examples?

4. Why teams? Two heads are better than one.
“We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Synergy: the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

5. Why teams?
Discussion:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in teams?

6. Teamwork & team building
Team building: Process of establishing and developing a greater sense of collaboration and trust between team members
Team building involves more than throwing a few people together.
Reading p.70 “Successful team working”
Listening p.71 “Building a team”

7. Team building Five Stages of Team Development:
Forming: team members get to know each other.
Storming: interpersonal conflicts begin to surface.
Norming: team members settle differences with establishment of order and cohesion. Members feel closer together and the conflicts are settled, or at least forgotten.
Performing: team members work well together.
Adjouring/Mourning: team disbands following completion of its task.

8. Team roles Task Specialist Socio-Emotional Team Member Roles Dual
Devotes time and energy to accomplishing team goals
Socio-Emotional
Devotes time and energy to encouraging team harmony
Team
Member
Roles
Dual
Devotes time and energy to task accomplishment and supporting team member’s emotional needs
Nonparticipative
Makes minimal contributions to either tasks or team members’ socio-emotional needs

9. Case study: Team building
p.74 “The new boss”
Debriefing:
What are your solutions or suggestions?
How were the decisions made?
Did anyone emerge as a leader?
What kind of team player are you? (p.68)

10. Challenges to team building
Factors inhibiting or diminishing a team’s effectiveness include:
Poor management style
High turnover
Improper emphasis on team development

11. Barriers to team building
Credibility of the project leader
Unclear project objectives
Changing goals and priorities
Lack of team definition and structure
Confusion about roles and responsibilities
Performance appraisals that fail to recognize teamwork
Excessive team size