1. Teaming Behaviors
From Napier, R.W., & Gershenfold, M.K., Groups: Theory and Experience. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

2. --Not Really-- Teaming is Key to Success

3. Have you known Engineers like these?

4. Team building and maintenance roles
Usually helpful
Usually destructive
Encouraging: being friendly, warm, and responsive to others; accepting others and their contributions; giving to others
Expressing feelings: expressing feelings present in the team; calling attention of the team to its reactions to ideas and suggestions; expressing his/her own feelings or reactions in the team
Being cold, unresponsive, unfriendly rejecting others’ contributions; ignoring them.
Ignores reactions of the team as a whole, refuses to express his/her own feelings when needed.

5. Team building and maintenance roles
Usually helpful
Usually destructive
Harmonizing; Attempts to reconcile disagreements; reduces tension through joking, relaxing comments; gets people to explore their differences.
Compromising: When her/his own idea or status is involved in a conflict, offers compromise, Yields status, admits error; disciplines him/herself to maintain team cohesion.
Irritates or needles others; encourages disagreement for its own sake; uses emotion-laden words.
Becomes defensive, haughty; withdraws or walks out; demands subservience or submission from others.

6. Listening is hard to do:

7. Team building and maintenance roles
Usually helpful
Usually destructive
Facilitating communications: Attempts to keep communication channels open; facilitates participation of others; suggests procedures for discussing team problems.
Setting standards or goals: Expresses standards or goals for team to achieve; helps the team become aware of direction and progress.
Ignores miscommunications; fails to listen to others; ignores the team needs that are expressed.
Goes her/his own way; irrelevant; ignores team standards or goals and direction.

8. Team building and maintenance roles
Usually helpful
Usually destructive
Testing agreement; Asks for opinions to find out if the team is nearing a decision; sends up a trial balloon to see how near agreement the team is; rewards progress.
Following; Goes along with movement of the team; accepts ideas of others; listens to and serves as an interested audience for others on the team.
Attends to his/her own needs; does not note team condition or directions; complains about slow progress
Participates in his/her own ideas, but does not actively listen to others; looks for loopholes in ideas; carping.

9. Team task roles?

10. Team task roles Usually Helpful Usually destructive
Initiating: Proposing tasks or goals; Defining a team problem; suggesting a procedure or ideas for solving a problem.
Seeking information: Requesting facts; seeking relevant information about a team problem or concern; aware of need for information
Waits for others to initiate; withholds ideas or suggestions.
Unaware of need for facts, or of what is relevant to the problem or task at hand.

11. Team task roles
Giving information: Offers facts; provides relevant information about a team concern.
Seeking opinions: Asks for expression of feeling; requests statements of estimate, expressions of value; seeks suggestions and ideas.
Avoids facts; prefers to state personal opinions or prejudices.
Does not ask what others wish or think; considers other opinions irrelevant.

12. Dealing with Opinions:

13. Team task roles
Giving opinion: States belief about a matter before the team; gives suggestions and ideas.
Clarifying: Interprets ideas or suggestions; clears up confusion; defines needed terms; indicates alternatives and issues confronting the team.
States own opinion whether relevant or not; withholds opinions or ideas when needed by the team.
Unaware of or irritated by confusion or ambiguities; ignores confusion of others.

14. Team task roles
Elaborating: Gives examples, develops meanings; makes generalizations; indicates how a proposal might workout if adopted.
Summarizing : Pulls together related ideas; restates suggestions after the team has discussed them; offers decision or conclusion for the team to accept or reject.
Inconsiderate of those who do not understand; refuses to explain, show new meaning.
Moves ahead without checking for relationships or integration of ideas; lets people make their own integrations or relationships.

15. Work At Being Thoughtful And Helpful: Don’t Be This Guy:
Your Actions, Words and Attitudes Can Be A Cattle Prod.