1. Unit 3: Organisations and Behaviour
Building effective teams
1 October 2019
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2. By the end of this session you will…
Be able to understand & explain the types of people and behaviour required for an effective team (3.4.2)
1 October 2019
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3. Selecting team members
Membership may be dictated by:
Existing arrangements
Organisation
Politics
Election
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4. Selecting team members
Where a manager selects team members, should try to match skills and attributes of individuals in order to complete the task in hand
Skills & knowledge, experience, power, access to resources, competence
1 October 2019
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5. Belbin’s team roles plant resource investigator co-ordinator shaper
monitor-evaluator
team worker
implementer
completer
specialist
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6. Exercise 1 – refer to Belbin handout
Which role(s) do you think you would be in a group?
Why?
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7. Team building Sense of identity Loyalty, solidarity
Commitment to shared objectives
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8. Team building events Outward bounds Go-karting War games
Conference in exotic place
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9. Team identity Give the team a name Give the team a badge/uniform
Allow team to express self-image
Build a team mythology
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10. Team solidarity Have a solidarity ‘slogan’
Encourage working relationships
Control conflict
Control intra-group competition
Encourage inter-group competition
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11. Further research/reading
BPP book chapter 12
Research on Belbin and team roles
Handout and research on the impact of technology on team effectiveness (3.4.3)
1 October 2019
HE Business