Teamwork Youth Leadership Workshop

Agenda Introduction Four Stages of Team Development Dysfunctional Team Members

Introduction  Why are we here? Educate ourselves in how to use our energy more efficiently. Learn the skills of proper teamwork. Minimize frustration. Get a uniformed idea of what good teamwork is.

Agenda Introduction Four Stages of Team Development Dysfunctional Team Members

The 4 stages of team development Forming Storming Norming Performing

Forming-stage  Characterized by: Excitement Anxiety Testing Dependence (on the assigned leader) Trust?

Improve your seating position! Exercise

Purpose - discussion  What are the advantages of having a defined purpose from the beginning?

Mission statement - UWC UWC makes education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.

Mission statement – Red Cross The purpose of the Red Cross is to protect life and health and ensure respect for the human being. It is guided solely by individual need. It makes no distinction as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinion.

Chaotic-land  Background: Chaotic-land is a country in crisis. Your new EAC is a group, the purpose of which is to raise money for Chaotic-land. You need to develop a mission statement for the project. Divide yourselves into groups of 5-6 persons. Each group writes down a mission statement for their EAC.

Chaotic-land  Task: Formulate 1-2 sentence mission statement by considering the following questions:  Why is the team necessary?  What is the purpose of our group?  How do you work? (information, money, local projects)  Who is benefiting from us doing a good job?

Freeze-exercise  Your EAC (Chaotic-land) is going to have a café. Make a plan for how to carry it out. What am I doing right now? What am I trying to achieve? How does that relate to the purpose of the group? Is it clear to me what others around me are doing? How much more clarification do I need to be effective?

Storming-stage  Characterized by: Resistance to different approaches Sharp attitude changes Competitiveness & defensiveness Tension & disunity

Belbin’s group role test  Purpose Identify team members strong and week sides Understand group collective capacity Create most suitable group combination  How to understand the test See document ‘Understanding Belbin’s Role Test’

Belbin’s group role test  Things to be aware of, dealing with teamwork: Your result Find your place Give space Distribution of work

Break

De Bono’s Hats The White Hat The Red Hat The Black Hat The Yellow Hat The Green Hat The Blue Hat Issue: World Today has invited a guest speaker to come and talk about the situation in Chaotic-land. During the presentation, several students in the back are talking loudly.

Norming-stage  Characterized by: Increased satisfaction Developing trust and respect and sharing responsibilities. Giving feedback to others Making decisions

Discussion  What makes a good team member?  What makes a good leader?  What is the difference between these two roles?

Building-exercise  Build a tower out of Lego Everybody will get a piece of paper with a hidden agenda. You are not allowed to talk to each other during the exercise. You have 8 minutes to finish the assignment.

Performing-stage  Characterized by: High level of interaction Increased performance Members more comfortable with each other Confident and optimistic

Discussion  Reflect upon and share with other participants any p ersonal experiences of teams to identify Forming Storming Norming Performing

Agenda Introduction Four Stages of Team Development Dysfunctional Team Members

Dysfunctional team members Condescending Bullying Blocking Avoiding Withdrawing Joking Dominating * Confront the person and talk about the problem.

Dysfunctional team members  Girl and boy made out at the last village party. Girl and boy do not talk any longer, and are creating an unpleasant atmosphere in the group How do you fix it? Who has the responsibility of fixing it? Would a solution be to kick one of them out?

Dysfunctional team members  50% of the group is always late for meetings and do not contribute to the work. It seems they are more interested in writing the EAC on their university application than anything else. How do you fix it? What should you do, if you are the “problem”?

Dysfunctional team members  In the group there are 2-3 persons who never say anything in the meetings and never volunteer for assignments. How do you fix it? Why does this happen, and how do you avoid it?

 How do you identify such a leader?  How do you fix this problem? Dysfunctional team LEADER

Summary Introduction Four Stages of Team Development Dysfunctional Team Members

Workshop Evaluation  What did you learn?  Can you use any of this?  What was the best/worst part?  Improvement suggestions?