Table of Contents

Lesson 4: Team Building.................................................. 2

Team Work..................................................................... 2
What is a Team?.......................................................... 2
3 Main Stages Teams Go Through ............................... 2
Elements of a Team ..................................................... 2
Characteristics of a Successful or Good Team ............. 2
Barriers/Problems Faced by a Team ............................ 2
Team Building ............................................................... 3
Team Work Activities ................................................... 3
Approaches to Team Work........................................... 3
Components of Team Work (Adair, 1987) .................... 4
Stages of Team Development (Bruce Tuckman, 1965) . 4
Guidelines for Effective Team Membership .................. 4
Good Sportsmanship Vs. Poor Sportsmanship ............. 5

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LESSON 4: TEAM BUILDING Characteristics of a Successful or Good Team

Team Work → High level of interdependence among members.

What is a Team? → The leader has good people skills and is committed to a
team approach.
→ a group of people who work together on a common task
to achieve a common purpose
→ Each member is willing to contribute.

3 Main Stages Teams Go Through → A relaxed climate for communication.

Chaotic Phase → Members develop mutual trust.

→ confusion or lack of order → The group and individuals are prepared to take risks.

→ exhibits the characteristic of poor communication within → The group is clear about goals and establishes targets.
the team
→ Member roles are defined.
→ some members dominate while others will not be able to
get their ideas heard
→ Members know how to examine errors without personal
attacks.
Formal Phase
→ The group has the capacity to create new ideas.
→ the act of defining or making something:
▪ definite → Each member knows he can influence the agenda.
▪ distinct
▪ clear
Barriers/Problems Faced by a Team

Skillful Phase ➢ Loss of Productivity or Output

→ a team spends sufficient time making observations and ➢ Complaints

they generate:
▪ hypothesis ➢ Conflicts between Personnel
▪ inferring
▪ explaining ➢ Lack of Clear Goals
▪ drawing conclusions
➢ Confusion about Assignments
→ defining new actions and interactions and the data
▪ needed to guide their implementation ➢ Lack of Innovation or Risk Taking

▪ building ownership for decisions ➢ Ineffective Meetings

➢ Lack of Initiative
Elements of a Team

➢ Common Team Goal ➢ Poor Communication

➢ Productive Participation of All Members ➢ Lack of Trust

➢ Communication ➢ Participant Feels that His/Her Work is not Recognized

➢ Trust ➢ Decisions are Made that People Do Not Understand or

Agree With
➢ Sense of Belonging

➢ Participatory Leadership

➢ Diversity

➢ Creativity and Risk Taking

➢ Evaluation

➢ Change Compatibility

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 Team Building Approaches to Team Work

→ refers to the:
Goal-Setting Approach (Beer,1976)
▪ selection
▪ development → a goal influences not only individual and group behavior
▪ collective but also:
 motivation of result-oriented teams ▪ direction
▪ coordination
→ pursued via a variety of practices, such as: ▪ extent of group efforts
▪ group self-assessment
▪ group-dynamic games → if problems of the group are identified through interviews
 and sits within the theory and practice with group members, they can be handled by group
of organizational development solutions

→ includes:
Interpersonal Approach (Argyris, 1966)
▪ Knowing Your Core Values
→ functions more effectively
▪ Positioning for a Common Cause
→ encourages:
▪ Keeping Team Together to Achieve Your ▪ sharing of feelings
Defined Objectives
▪ psychological support for one another

Team Work Activities

▪ non-evaluative communication among team
→ designed to help groups develop effective communication members
and problem-solving skills

Role Model (Beer, 1976)

→ is a set of behavior which an individual in a particular

organizational position feels obliged to perform
▪ and which individuals in other organizational
positions expect that person to perform

Managerial Grid Model (Blake and Mouton, 1969)

→ aims at productive and cohesive team-work

→ involves 4 steps:
▪ evaluation

▪ deliberation and examination

▪ elimination and replacement

▪ trying out new styles of teamwork and individual

behavior

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Components of Team Work (Adair, 1987) Guidelines for Effective Team Membership

➢ Developing the Individual → Contribute Ideas and Solutions

→ individuals come to groups with their own needs
→ Recognize and Respect Differences in Others
→ they work in groups to accomplish group tasks
→ Value the Ideas and Contributions of Others
▪ while simultaneously expecting that
group membership will fulfill some of → Listen and Share Information
their individual needs
→ Ask Questions and Get Clarification
➢ Task Achievement
→ this is the need to achieve something → Participate Fully and Keep Your Commitments

→ it is the task on which the group is working → Be Flexible and Respect the Partnership Created by a
Team – Strive for the "Win-Win"
➢ Building and Maintaining the Team
→ the need to develop and sustain working → Have Fun and Care about the Team and the Outcomes
relationships among members is necessary for
accomplishing group tasks
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is
→ this is the maintenance need of the group progress. Working together is success.”

- Henry Ford
Stages of Team Development (Bruce Tuckman, 1965)

➢ Forming
→ the team meets and learns about the opportunity
and challenges,
▪ and then agrees on goals and begins
to tackle the tasks
➢ Storming
→ the team addresses issues such as:
▪ what problems they are supposed to
solve

▪ how they will function independently

and together

▪ what leadership model they will accept

➢ Norming
→ team members adjust their behavior to each
other as they develop work habits that make
teamwork seem more natural and fluid

➢ Performing
→ these high-performing teams can function as a
unit
▪ as they find ways to get the job done
smoothly and effectively

▪ without inappropriate conflict or the

need for external supervision

➢ Dissolving/Adjourning
→ involves completing the task and breaking up
the team

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Good Sportsmanship Vs. Poor Sportsmanship What this Behavior
Poor Sportsmanship
Means
Do What’s Right!
Good Sportsmanship
Expectations
This is disrespectful of the
Represent your school & official's judgment and/or
Competitors helping the players competing.
community well with
teammates and opponents
positive interactions with
up after a play. Both are doing their best in
opposing fans and players. Booing or heckling an
the way they were trained.
official's call or a player’s
actions and negative
Applause during the Everyone makes mistakes.
cheers.
introduction of players, Display modesty in victory
coaches, and officials for and graciousness in defeat. Fans are not at an event to
both teams. intimidate or ridicule, they
are there to enjoy the
competition.

Cheerleaders leading fans Use positive cheers, yells

in positive cheers. songs, and gestures.
Competitors not shaking These actions do not show
hands after a contest, winning or losing with
criticizing a teammate or dignity and does not show
Respect and acknowledge
Applause at the end of the coach, trash talking during respect for your opponent,
the integrity and judgment
contest for both teams. or before a contest. teammate, or coach.
of the officials.

Damaging bleachers or This is disrespectful and

Exhibit positive behavior
Encouraging all fans to facilities at the host school. criminal behavior.
with opponents and fans
display only sportsmanlike
before, during, and after the
conduct.
contest. This is disrespectful to all in
attendance.
Profanity at any time during
Treat competition as a a contest.
Profanity has no place in
game, not a war.
any interscholastic activity.

This is disrespectful to all

Blaming the loss of a game involved in the game.
on officials, coaches, or
participants. Everyone did the best they
could that given day.