T EAMWORK Youth Leadership Workshop

A GENDA Introduction Four Stages of Team Development How to be an effective team member Common problems

I NTRODUCTION What is teamwork? 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.

A GENDA Introduction Four Stages of Team Development How to be an effective team member Common problems

Forming Excitement, expectations, anxiety Storming Different opinions, conflicts and tensions, competitiveness and defensiveness Norming Increased satisfaction, trust, sharing responsibility, making decisions Performing Approaching the goals, members comfortable, optimism Norming

Get start Organizing work Understanding & managing the group Background and experience Ideas about how to proceed as a group. Leader? Discuss and clarify the goals Allocate responsibility Time-line Contribution Expectation each meeting Allocation responsibility and deadlines Check the process of the group

A GENDA Introduction Four Stages of Team Development How to be an effective team member Common problems

H OW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE MEMBER COMMUNICATE DON’T BLAME OTHERSDON’T BRAG LISTEN ACTIVELYFLEXIBLECOMPROMISE DON’T GOSSIP

T HE GOOD LEADER Encourage everyone's contributions Maintain a positive atmosphere Must anticipate what information the group need Responsible for beginning and ending on time Discussion: participation as an equal Concerns about members’ anxiety Find out what people are good at and then assign roles accordingly.

T HE EFFECTIVE GROUP Including everyone and their ideas Take turns by going around the group Generate ideas through brainstorming Focus on the direction of the group

D E B ONO ’ S H ATS The White Hat – objective and fact-finding The Red Hat – clarifies emotional reactions to the issue The Black Hat – find all the bad aspects of the project The Yellow Hat – focus on the benefits The Green Hat – develop the creative ideas The Blue Hat – planning, organizing and keeping track

H AT EXERCISE - C HAOTIC - LAND A beautiful country that used to be visited by many tourists has had a terrorist attack a year ago and since then it has not had enough tourists.

H AT EXERCISE C HAOTIC - LAND Task: Your group has to make a travel brochure about Chaotic-land to attract tourists. Everything is possible, it is all up to you!

H AT EXERCISE – C HAOTIC - LAND Discussion: What are the purposes of the different hats? Did it work? Any problems/conflicts? Can you relate the work you just had in the group with the four stages?

B ELBIN ’ S GROUP ROLE TEST Purpose Identify team members strong and week sides Understand group collective capacity Create most suitable group combination

B UILDING - 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 5 minutes to finish the assignment.

A GENDA Introduction Four Stages of Team Development How to be an effective team member Common problem

P ROBLEM 1 Some people are making fun and goof around in the middle of an important discussion and it is difficult to reach a solution because of them.

P ROBLEM 2 One member of the group is very dominant and wants to be heard all the time, telling lengthy stories and not letting others finish.

P ROBLEM 3 In the group there are 2-3 persons who never say anything in the meetings and never volunteer for assignments.

P ROBLEM 4 One person in group the is less patient than the others. This person may pressure the group to move before the others are ready.

S UMMARY Four Stages of team development How to be an effective team member

W ORKSHOP E VALUATION What did you learn? Can you use any of this? What was the best/worst part? Improvement suggestions?