1. Jump to first page Team Building What is a ‘team’ and how big should be to be efficient and effective? What skills are required in your team? How should you ‘organize’ your team? Robert Campbell – June 2002

2. Jump to first page What is a Team? n “A team is a group of [6] people working together with a common identity, to achieve common objectives and willing to commit all their energies necessary to ensuring that the objectives are achieved”. n “A team needs a sense of direction, a sense of belonging and a sense of identity”.

3. Jump to first page A Successful Team n Common objectives n Commitment n Communication n Confidence n Enjoyment n Good Leadership n Involvement n Mutual Trust n Role Identity n Standards n Supportive n Well Trained

4. Jump to first page Benefits of Team Working n Achieve goals more quickly and more efficiently than working alone n Support and help each other to improve their skills n Become more confident and develop good interpersonal skills n Be more creative than individuals n Take risks that individuals may avoid n Be more flexible n Show commitment to the task and each other n Share information, knowledge and feelings n Be self-motivated n Enjoy their work by being with other people n Be easier to manage

5. Jump to first page Stages of forming a team n FORMING n People are polite to each other n Guarded in what they say or do n Test each other out n Say a lot or very little n The Leader will assess individuals Strengths, and weaknesses, experience and aspirations, explain the teams aim and objectives n STORMING n Feelings come out into the open n Team is focused on inner conflicts n Team copes poorly under pressure n Peacemakers paper over cracks n Team has unrealistic view of its own effectiveness

6. Jump to first page Team Storming n Getting to know you? n What skills and ‘qualities’ do you bring to the ‘team’? n Questonnaires - Clerical skills n Belbin Personal Questionnaire n Roles in a Team n Leader, Shaper, Plant, Investigator, Evaluator, Implementor, Team worker or Finisher.

7. Jump to first page Team Performing n Communications n Exercise Interviews - What job is it? n Exercise - Walk through a sheet of A4 paper. n Exercise - SWOT analysis n Objective setting, n Procedures - Protocols n Appraisal - Video and Training n Juggling - without passing to next

8. Jump to first page Team Norming n Problem solving n Exercise - individual problems for others to solve n Exercise - What time is it [cards] n Communications - messages n Exercise - Disney

9. Jump to first page Team Mourning n When a member leaves a team - it’s back to the start again. n Conflict - Unseen baggage [beliefs, feelings, attitudes and values n Awareness n Looking toward the future n Exercise - Lego Man [Planning] AWARENESS Know all | Others Know You know | No one knows