Teamworking

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Teamworking

• So you think you are a team player?

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Rationale

• Human achievement is limited
• people need to work together
• Teams achieve more
• than individual efforts combined
• this is called synergy
• Team success depends on
• how members work together
• not just skills of individual members

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T E A M
There is no I in the word TEAM

• Together
• Everyone
• Achieves
• More

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What is a Team?

• A group of people do not necessarily make a team
• A team is a group of people with a high degree of
  interdependence
• focused on joint achievement of a goal or task
• The group agrees on the goal process of
  achievement

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Key Principles

• Each team has common
• mission or goal
• purpose
• Members are interdependent
• need each other to achieve purpose
• bring in experts when needed
• Agree to work together effectively
• to reach common goal
• Failure of one will result in team failure

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Interdependence
Interdependent
Independent
Dependent
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Team Behaviours

• Competitive
• working against other teams
• Collaborative
• working with other teams
• Task-oriented
• focused on the job
• Strategic
• seeing big picture
• Challenging
• effectively disagreeing

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Team Development
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
formalities are preserved members are treated
as strangers
members start to communicate but probably still
do not view themselves as part of a team. They
attack others insular attitudes while guarding
their own
people feel part of the team realise that they
can achieve work if they accept other viewpoints
the team works in an open trusting atmosphere
where flexibility is the key hierarchy is of
little importance
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Essential Skills for Teamwork

• Listening
• Members in team listen to each other's ideas
• Members build off each other's ideas
• Questioning
• Members question each other
• Members interact, discuss pose questions
• Persuading
• Members use persuasion
• Members exchange, defend rethink ideas

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Essential Skills for Teamwork

• Respecting
• Members respect opinions of others
• Members encourage support ideas others
  efforts
• Helping
• Members help each other
• Sharing
• Members share offer ideas report their
  findings
• Participating
• All members contribute to task at hand

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Tips for Teambuilding

• Form teams to solve real work issues improve
  real work processes
• provide the team with teamwork training
• focus on accomplishing the project
• not on how to work together as a team
• Hold meetings to review projects progress
• recognize when a group is not developing a
  healthy relationship
• examine the team's progress
• see if the team has difficulties in agreeing on
  best approach

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Tips for Teambuilding

• Build fun shared experiences into agenda
• help team think as a unit within a fun work
  environment
• ensure everyone on the team feels involved
  appreciated
• sponsor company dinners or sporting events or
  team retreats
• Use icebreakers time-limited fun team-building
  exercises
• use icebreakers group activities to promote
  interaction camaraderie
• Celebrate group successes publicly
• recognize group as a whole for accomplishments
• not just individuals within the group
• constructive group praise is best policy

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Goal Setting

• Make team goals SMART
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time Bound

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Types of Teams

• Basic team
• Team Leader
• Task Managers
• Staff members
• ad hoc task force or committee
• formed for specific purpose
• limited time period
• Experts from different disciplines
• new product development
• new system or process

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Team Dimensions

• Purpose
• Product development
• Quality assurance
• Marketing strategy/plan
• systems development
• Policy formulation etc.
• Duration
• permanent
• ad hoc limited time period
• Membership
• Functional
• Cross functional

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Discussion Points

• What is the best definition of a team player?
• What role would you like to play in a team?
• How do you support team members who are
  struggling?
• What is the first thing a team should do?
• What team do you admire the most?
• What is better a team working together, or
  individuals working to a common aim?