Team Building

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Team Building

• APAMSA Leadership Development Module

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Team Building
Relations-Oriented Behaviors

• Identify common interests and team values to
  unify team members
• Incorporate symbols, ceremonies, and rituals to
  develop social cohesiveness

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Leadership Challenge (23)

• Team Building
• Cohesiveness and cooperation are two common goals
  of team building
• Describe your approach to Team Building and
  briefly explain how your methods increased team
  cohesiveness, mutual cooperation, and team
  identification

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Team Building
Guidelines For Team Building

• Common interests and values
• Ceremonies and rituals
• Symbols
• Social interaction

• Publicize activities
• Process analysis
• Alignment sessions
• Incentives for cooperation

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 71-72)
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Team Building
Common Interests Values

• Group identity is dependent upon shared goals and
  strategies to attain them
• Appeal to team members for their cooperation by
  emphasizing mutual interests and values

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Ceremonies Rituals

• Make group identity special with ceremonies and
  rituals that emphasize team values
• Initiation rituals for new members, and
  celebration rituals for departing members
• Ceremonies can celebrate special achievements or
  anniversaries

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Symbols

• Create a symbol for group identity
• Symbols can be a team name, color, slogan, logo,
  insignia, or emblem
• Display symbols on business letters, flyers,
  banners, clothing

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Social Interaction

• Build cohesiveness among team members with
  pleasant social interaction
• Host periodic social activities like dinners,
  lunches, picnics, barbeques
• Go on team outings to sports events or concerts,
  go camping or hiking

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Publicize Activities

• Tell people about group plans, activities, and
  achievements
• Explain the importance of these plans, activities
  and achievements relative to team objectives
• Communicate a sense of excitement, fun and zest
  in all that is being done

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Process Analysis

• Hold frank discussion of interpersonal
  relationships and group interactions
• Consider how people are communicating, working
  together, making decisions, and resolving
  conflicts
• Discuss strengths in work relations and ways to
  improve any weak points

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Alignment Sessions

• Negative stereotypes are common with diverse team
  members with varied opinions
• Increase mutual understanding by holding
  alignment sessions
• Sessions involve each member answering several
  personal career questions

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Alignment Sessions

• Questions may ask about your values, concerns,
  and personal objectives
• How do you want to be remembered?
• What is most often misunderstood about you?
• What type of work is most satisfying?
• What type of work is most frustrating?
• How would you like to change your role?

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Alignment Sessions

• Each person will be given time to answer these
  questions to help others understand them and be
  appreciated

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Team Building
Incentives For Participation

• Provide incentives for mutual cooperation
• Incentives that reward group performance
  encourage cooperation
• Whereas incentives that reward individual
  performance encourage competition
• Offer rewards for high team performance to value
  team service

Source G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New
Jersey Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
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Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Summary

• Team Building
• Cohesiveness and cooperation are two common goals
  of team building
• Identify common interests and team values to
  unify team members
• Utilize the Guidelines for Team Building to
  increase cohesiveness, mutual cooperation, and
  team identification

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Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Next Topic

• Encouraging Participation
• Our next module discusses guidelines for
  assessing the need for participation and
  encouraging others to participate

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Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Sources

• G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations, New Jersey
  Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338
• Free Management Library
• www.managementhelp.org/ldrship/ldrship.htm