1. Using soft skills in non-formal education
Understanding Team and Team Building

2. Team and Team Building: Introduction
Welcome
Combination
Educational game
Exercise with a team
Theory

3. 1. Educational game: memory

4. EDUCATIONAL GAME Memory round 1 - individual
Activity
Process
Cardboard
LCD projector
Pieces
Talking
Willing
Mental
Participatory
Responsibility

5. EDUCATIONAL GAME Memory round 2
Group 5 – 6 persons
Pointing
Unwilling
Frustration
Purpose
Value
Discussion
Observer
Scissors
Blackboard
Patterns

6. 2. Broken square exercise

7. ACTIVITY 2 : BROKEN SQUARE EXERCISE
5 persons do exercise; 6th person: observer
One set of five envelopes with puzzle pieces
Wait to open the envelope
Your team has enough pieces to make five identical sized squares
Team that first finishes wins the game

8. ACTIVITY 2 : BROKEN SQUARE EXERCISE
 RULES
Don’t speak.
Don’t ask another for a piece or signal to give a piece.
Don’t take a piece from another member.
Don’t support another to put his/her puzzle together.
Members may give their pieces to other members. They must simply hand the piece to another member.  

9. Debriefing

10. 3.
Team and team building

11. FEATURES OF EFFECTIVE CREATIVE TEAMS
Participatory leadership
Shared responsibility
Aligned on purpose
High communication
Future focussed / Focussed on task
Structures, roles and rules / Shared values
Creative talents, skills and resources
FEATURES OF EFFECTIVE CREATIVE TEAMS

12. SOCIAL SMALL GROUP SKILLS
Tolerance or dissent
Decision by consensus
Constructive criticism
Respect for feelings
Positive interdependence
Reflective on group processing

13. EVOLUTION OF TEAMS: FIRST PATTERN
Performing teams
Groups
Collection of individuals

14. EVOLUTION OF TEAMS: SECOND PATTERN
Undeveloped team
Experimenting team
Consolidating team
Mature team

15. CONCLUDING WORDS ON TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Ways to increase the cohesion of a team
Structuring cooperation among members
Successfully meet the personal needs of members
Maintaining a high level of trust among members
Promoting norms that encourage the expression of individuality, trusting and trustworthy behaviour and concern and affection among members