Download - Building Effective Teams
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Building Effective Teams“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts”
David Dixon 2009
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Objectives
• Gain an increased understanding of the characteristics of effective teams
• Understand the dynamics of effective teams
• Consider how different leadership styles can be used to increase team effectiveness
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Apprentice DVD
• What helped the teams to works towards their goals?
• What got in the way?
What do high performing teams look like?
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team
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Beckhard’s model: Team effectiveness hierarchy
Goals (What the team is trying to accomplish)
Roles (Who does What)
Processes (How the work gets done)
Relationships (how the members interact)
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What is the team trying to accomplish?
• Clear: understood by all the team• Owned• Specific and measurable• Shared• Team members do not have conflicting goals
Goals
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Who does what in the team?
• Complete clarity of role• Boundaries and responsibilities• Openness and shared perception of role• Is there conflict, e.g. do roles overlap?
Roles
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How members work together
• Decision making - how are decisions made?• Communication - are there agreed systems?• Meetings - are they run efficiently? Are the
timing and frequency appropriate?• Leadership style - have the leader and team
agreed the most appropriate style?
Processes
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The quality of interaction in the team
• Are working relationships open and co-operative?
• Are there values governing interactions?• How are feelings, attitudes and emotions
dealt with?
Relationships
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Tuckman’s team development model
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Features of Forming
• Team goals being identified• Uncertainty about roles and responsibilities• Politeness – people keeping real feelings to
themselves• Team looking to leader for direction
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Features of Storming
• Decisions hard to reach• Power struggles• Low morale• Team members cease to contribute
because they don’t feel valued
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Features of Norming
• Differences of opinion accepted• Climate of trust and support• Team members work co-operatively• Team members take on responsibility
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Features of Performing
• Team energised by tasks• Confidence that goals will be achieved• Shared leadership• Team talk is ‘we’ not ‘I’
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• Build a structure that will support a small chocolate bar as high as possible from the ground
• You may use only the materials provided. The structure must be freestanding, not secured to the surface on which it rests.
Time allowed:15 minutes
Team task
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Further reading
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