1. Team-Building Strategies
Management Skills:
Team-Building Strategies
Angela Carman, DrPH
February 27, 2015

2. Agenda Overview of Management Skills and Functions
Role of Teams in Management
Team Members
Team Issues
Building Team Performance
Role of the Leader

3. Management Skills

4. Management Functions
Communication

5. Role of Teams in Management
What is a team?
A collection of people who
regularly interact to pursue
common goals

6. Role of Teams in Management
Why are teams useful?
More resources for problem solving
Improved creativity and innovation
Higher motivation through collective action

7. Not all groups are teams
Working Groups
Teams
Strong Leader
Individual Accountability
Purpose = Organizational Mission
Efficient Information-Oriented Meetings
Discusses, Decides and Delegates
Coach/Shared Leadership
Individual/Mutual Accountability
Specific Purpose
Problem-Solving Meetings
Discusses, Decides and does real work together

8. Team Scenario
Suppose your community wanted to reduce the obesity rate among adults ages
Could one organization in your community accomplish this task alone?
Who should be involved?

9. Team Members
Select team members for skill & skill potential, not personality
A mix of complimentary skills
A coach/leader

11. Team Issues Large Size Virtual Participation Diversity
High Education Levels
Personality Conflicts
Individual Differences in Work Styles
Ambiguous Agendas & Lack of Structure

12. Building Team Performance
Meaningful common purpose shaped by the team
Set clear rules of behavior (team norms)
Spend time together
Use the power of positive feedback, recognition & reward
Quick wins
Develop mutually-reinforcing role clarity

13. Building Team Performance
Groupthink – A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities

14. Building Team Performance
Avoid Groupthink:
Have each group member be a critical evaluator
Create sub-teams to work on the same problems
Have team members discuss issues with outsiders

15. Role of the Leader
Understanding Team Dynamics

16. Team Exercise
Evaluate your team
Additional Team-Building
References