team building apamsa leadership development module
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TEAM BUILDINGAPAMSA Leadership Development Module
Team Building
Identify common interests and team values to unify team members
Incorporate symbols, ceremonies, and rituals to develop social cohesiveness
Relations-Oriented Behaviors
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Relations-Oriented Behaviors
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
Leadership Challenge (23)
Team Building
Guidelines For Team Building
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 71-72)
Common interests and values
Ceremonies and rituals
Symbols Social interaction
Publicize activities Process analysis Alignment sessions Incentives for
cooperation
Team Building
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
Common Interests & Values
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
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
Ceremonies & Rituals
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
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
Symbols
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
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
Social Interaction
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
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
Publicize Activities
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
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
Process Analysis
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
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
Alignment Sessions
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
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?
Alignment Sessions
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
Each person will be given time to answer these questions to help others understand them and be appreciated
Alignment Sessions
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Team Building
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
Incentives For Participation
Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)
Relations-Oriented Behaviors
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
Summary
Relations-Oriented Behaviors
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
G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338
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