1. Team formation Team Roles
Building the Team
Team formation
Team Roles

2. ‘ “ The joy of working harmoniously with small groups of people who are dedicated to something bigger than themselves, and are completely loyal to each other, counts in my experience as one of the most rewarding things in life,” a senior manager told me. Most of us would agree with him.’
- John Adair (1987), Effective Teambuilding, Pan
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3. Lecture Objectives Re-cap: Team v Group
Tuckman’s theory on group formation
Belbin on team roles
Stress and Conflict
Transactional Analysis
H-Belbin Types to choose in secret
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4. Right mix of Team Roles Team Maintenance Roles Team Team Building
Blocking
Roles
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5. Role of the Team Leader Achieve the Task Support & Develop Individuals
Build the
Team
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6. Team vs Group
Concise Oxford Dictionary: ‘A Group is a number of persons or things located close together, or considered or classed together’
Does this define a team?
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7. Features of Groups Common aim or purpose A means of communication
A set of rules
Sanctions for breaking the rules
Individual achievement
Identification
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8. Teams
‘A group which has developed to the stage where it is able to perform effectively as a team, each member adopting the role necessary to work with others, using complimentary skills’
Together
Everyone
Achieves
More
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9. Groups / Teams Team Group Size Limited Medium or large Selection
Crucial
Immaterial
Leadership
Shared
Leader
Perception
Mutual knowledge & understanding
Focus on leader
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10. Good Team Work Loyalty to the team High levels of communication
Freedom to express opinions & feelings
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11. Group Formation Tuckman’s Theory
Performing
Norming
Storming
Forming
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12. Group Formation Tuckman’s Theory
Performing
Norming
Storming
Dorming?
Forming
Adjourning?
Mourning?
Hx2
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13. Team Roles – Belbin Plant Resource Investigator Co-ordinator Shaper
Monitor-Evaluator
Team Worker
Implementer
Completer / Finisher
Specialist
Hx2
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14. Role Stress Inappropriate role allocation (p.32)
Role Conflict (fulfil opposing roles)
Role Overload (fulfil too many roles)
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15. Dealing with Conflict
A level of turbulence id often necessary to bring out the best in people or build teams.
‘Positive’ conflict
‘Negative’ conflict H
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16. Building your team
Activity – suggest two or three useful ways in which the team leader might try to help the team get on better together
Useful tips
Emphasize the value and importance of the task
Keep everyone busy
Praise loudly, criticise quietly
Encourage friendly rivalry
Acknowledge the value of the skills and experience of individuals
Watch out for the emergence of sub-groups
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17. TA – How does it feel?
Someone talking down to you as if you are a child and they are your parent
Being nurtured and cared for when you are ill
Respected and treated as an equal
Talk down to someone else when you believe you know what they should learn
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18. Transactional Analysis
ONE of the ways people’s behaviour can be described
Dr Eric Berne, discharge from Second World War
Ego-states
Parent
Adult
Child H
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19. Leader’s Role for Creating the Climate for Change
Clarity
Consistency
Realism
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20. In conclusion Re-cap: Team v Group Tuckman’s theory – team building
Belbin on team roles
Stress and Conflict
Transactional Analysis
Questions?
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