Cooperative Teams

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Cooperative Teams
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Essential Elements of Cooperative Teams-1

• Positive interdependence
• Promotive interaction
• Individual accountability
• Learning and practicing interpersonal and group
  skills
• Group processing

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Positive interdependence
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Promotive interaction
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Individual accountability

• hold group accountable for achieving its goals
• hold each member accountable for contributing
  his/her share

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Learning and practicing interpersonal and group
skills

• need to learn and practice skills
• effective leadership
• decision-making
• trust-building
• communication
• conflict-resolution
• know how to do it, reflect and refine use, and
  use automatically

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Group processing

• reflect on how group is functioning
• improve continuously

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Stages of Team Growth

• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing

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Forming

• Explore the boundaries of acceptable group
  behavior test the leaders guidance.
• Feelings excitement, optimism, tentative
  attachment to the team, suspicion, fear, and
  anxiety.
• Behaviors complaints about the organization and
  barriers to the task, discussion of problems not
  relevant to the task, impatience with
  discussions, decisions on what information needs
  to be gathered.

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Storming

• Most difficult stage team members realize that
  the task is different and more difficult than
  realized members become testy, blameful, or
  overzealous.
• Feelings resistance to task and quality
  improvement approaches sharp fluctuations in
  attitude about team and projects chance of
  success.
• Behaviors arguing among members even when they
  agree on real issues defensiveness and
  competition, questioning of wisdom of guidance
  team, leaders establishing unrealistic goals
  concern about excessive work some disunity,
  tension and jealousy.

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Norming

• Members reconcile competing responsibilities
  they accept the team and the individuality of
  team members.
• Feelings a new ability to express criticism
  constructively, acceptance of membership in the
  team, and relief that everything is going to work
  out.
• Behaviors attempt to achieve harmony by avoiding
  conflict, more friendliness, confiding in each
  other and sharing of personal problems team
  cohesion, common spirit and goals, establishing
  and maintaining team ground rules and boundaries
  (norms).

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Performing

• Team has settled its relationships and
  expectations. They can begin performing--diagnosin
  g and solving problems-and choosing and
  implementing changes. All members have discovered
  and accepted each others strengths and
  weaknesses, and learned what their roles are.
• Feelings members having insights into personal
  and group processes, and better understanding of
  each others strengths and weaknesses.
• Behaviors constructive self-change, ability to
  prevent or work through group problems and close
  attachment to team.

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Guidance Team

• Guidance Team
• Oversee and support activities of project teams
• Guide efforts
• Evaluates Individual Efforts
• Before the project
• identify the project goals
• prepare a mission statement
• determine needed resources
• select team and team leaders
• assign quality advisor
• During the project
• meet regularly with project team
• develop and improve teams
• insure changes are made

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Role of Team Leader

• Team Leader
• calls and facilitates meeting
• handles and assigns administrative details
• orchestrates all team activities, and
• oversees preparations for reports and
  presentations

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Best Practice

• Rotate task assignments for meetings
• Recorder writes task assignments, each person
  signs, and task assignments are emailed within 24
  hours of meeting
• Each task is assigned to 2 people a primary (who
  does the task) and a nagger who checks on
  primary to ensure progress is being made

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Team Notebooks

• One for each team Graded.
• There is no predefined format for the notebook.
• Meeting records
• Email
• Individual contributions
• Drafts
• Task assignments
• Team processing documentation
• to protect you describes your contribution to
  the team.

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Discussion Skills

•  Necessary for effective team meetings
• Every meeting should include actions that
  facilitate discussion.
• Need to practice these. 

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Guidelines for Constructive Feedback

• Acknowledge the need for feedback
• Give positive and negative feedback

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Common Discussion Problems

• One or two people dominate the conversation and
  ignore contributions
• One or two people contribute and the others do
  not participate

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Common Discussion Problems

• I say something at a meeting and everyone
  agrees, but later, no one remembers or they say
  they didnt agree.
• My teammate says something at the meeting, but
  later claims (s)he said something different.
• My teammates dont listen to what Im saying
  they hear what they want to hear.

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Discussion, More Dos

• Listen - This is the hard part. Try to understand
  what is being said before making any comments
  about it. Don't interrupt or complete sentences.
  Before commenting on an idea, rephrase it and
  ensure you understand. 
• Summarize - Occasionally compile whats been said
  and restate it to the group in summary form.
  Follow a summary with a question to check for
  agreement.
• Contain digression - Do not permit overlong
  examples or irrelevant discussion.

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Discussion Skills

• Manage time
• End the discussion
• Test for consensus
• Constantly evaluate the meeting process.