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Team Building and Teamwork

The document discusses team building and teamwork. It defines key terms related to team building and identifies the characteristics of effective teams. It explains that teamwork is most effective when the task requires various types of expertise and concerted efforts. The document also outlines the four stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, and performing. Finally, it shares lessons that can be learned from geese about working together effectively in a group.

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Team Building and Teamwork

The document discusses team building and teamwork. It defines key terms related to team building and identifies the characteristics of effective teams. It explains that teamwork is most effective when the task requires various types of expertise and concerted efforts. The document also outlines the four stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, and performing. Finally, it shares lessons that can be learned from geese about working together effectively in a group.

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TEAM BUILDING AND


TEAMWORK

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Case Study Objectives


Appreciate the danger of ignorance
Define key terms and concepts of team building.
Identify the characteristics of effective teams
Indicate the roles and responsibilities involved in
team work
Design, select and lead teams
Determine the relevance of team to achieving
results.

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CLASS READING

There was a case in Mulago Hospital Intensive


Care Ward where patients always died on the same
bed and on Sunday morning at 11 am regardless of
their medical condition.
This puzzled the doctors and some even thought
that it had something to do with the supernatural.
No one could solve the mystery as to why any
patient put on that particular bed died at 11 am on
Sunday mornings.
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So a world-wide expert team was constituted and


they decided to go down to the ward to investigate
the causes of the deaths.
On the next Sunday morning few minutes before
11 am, all doctors and nurses nervously waited
outside the ward to see for themselves what this
terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were
holding wooden crosses, prayer books and other
objects to ward off the evil
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Just when the clock struck 11 Mukwase Philip,


the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward
and unplugged the life support system so he could
use the power socket for the vacuum cleaner.

What precisely is wrong in this situation?

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A
Challenge
Please write a One Sentence
Definition of
TEAM BUILDING.

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What Is A
According to Webster's Ninth Edition:
Team?
A team is a number of persons
associated together in work or
activity: as a group on one side
(as in football or debate).
In other words, when one person cannot
accomplish a job alone and several individuals
must cooperate to fulfill a mission, you need a
team. The better the cooperation,
communication, and coordination among
team members, the more efficient the team.
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Common
Need
The overriding
need of all people
working for the
same
organization: to
make the
organization
profitable.

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Conceptions of
Team
(1 of 3)
The Athletic
Perspective:

Here, team connotes


winning and losing. In an
athletic arena, winning is
the ultimate goal.
The Power of Two:

Here, teamimplies
partnership. This includes
both business and
personal partnerships such

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Conceptions of
Team
(2 of 3)
Circumstantial:
Here, team simply
means any group in the
same place at the same
time. For example, in this
context a company in
general or all the
managers in an
organization could be
considered a team.
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Conceptions of
Team
(3 of 3)
The Community Approach:
Here, a team is a group of
individuals that share,
collaborate, and assist one
another. The group usually
includes about 20 individuals.
Members look to their peers for
support. This type of team leads
to workplace success!
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A team is not a bunch of people with job


titles, but a congregation of individuals,
each of whom has a role which is
understood by other members. Members of
a team seek out certain roles and they
perform most effectively in the ones that are
most natural to them.
- Dr. R. M. Belbin

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Therefore!
Teamwork is most effective when the task to be performed,
is complex
requires various types of knowledge and expertise and,
needs concerted efforts
to solve problems for which there
ef
is no clear -cut answer.

The concept of Synergy (the whole is greater than the


sum of the parts) provides the basis on which team
building rests.

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Stages in Team Development

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Stage One - Forming


Period in which members are often guarded in
their interactions because theyre not sure what
to expect from other team members.
This is also the period in which members form
opinions of their teammates.
During this stage, productivity is low.

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Forming Enhance Team Development by:

Sharing responsibility
Encouraging open dialogue
Providing structure
Directing team issues
Developing a climate of trust and respect.

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Stage two - Storming


Characterized by competition and strained
relationships among team members. There
are various degrees of conflict dealing with
issues of power, leadership and decisionmaking.
This is the most critical stage for the team.

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Storming - Enhance Team Development by:


Joint problem solving.
Norms for different points of view.
Decision-making procedures.
Encouraging two-way communication.
Supporting collaborative team efforts.

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Stage three -Norming


Characterized by cohesiveness among
members. In this phase, members realize
their commonalities and learn to appreciate
their differences.
Functional relationships are developed
resulting in the evolution of trust among
members.
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Norming - Enhance Team Development by:

Communicating frequently and openly about concerns.


Encouraging members to manage the team process.
Giving positive and constructive feedback.
Supporting consensus decision-making efforts.
Delegating to team members as much as possible.

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Stage four -Performing


The team now possesses the capability to define tasks, work through
relationships, and manage team conflicts by themselves.
Communication is open and supportive. Members interact with
without fear of rejection.
Leadership is participative and shared. Different viewpoints and
information is shared openly.
Conflict is now viewed as a catalyst that generates creativity in the
problem-solving process.

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Performing - Enhance Team Development by:


Offering feedback when requested.
Supporting new ideas and ways for achieving outcomes.
Encouraging ongoing self-assessment.
Developing team members to their fullest potential.
Looking for ways to increase the teams capacity.

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REMEMBER!!!

Any change in the composition of the team


or its leadership will return the team to the
forming stage.

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Lessons We Can Learn from Geese


Fact #1 As each bird flaps its wings, it
creates uplift for the bird following. By
flying in a "V" formation, the whole
flock adds 71 percent greater flying
range than if one bird flew alone.
Lesson Learned People who share a
common direction and sense of community
can get where they are going quicker and
easier because they are traveling on the
strength of one another.

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Lessons We Can Learn from Geese

Fact #2 Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it


suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to fly
alone and quickly gets back into formation to take
advantage of the lifting power of the bird
immediately in front.
Lesson Learned If we have as much sense as

geese, we will stay in formation with those who


are ahead of where we want to go and be willing
to accept their help as well as give ours to others.

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Lessons We Can Learn from Geese


Fact #3 When the lead goose gets tired,
it rotates back into the formation and
another goose flies at the point position.
Lesson Learned It pays to take turns
doing the hard tasks and sharing
leadership.

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Lessons We Can Learn from Geese


Fact #4 The geese in formation honk
from behind to encourage those up front
to keep up their speed.
Lesson Learned We need to make sure
our honking from behind is encouraging,
and not something else.

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Lessons We Can Learn from Geese

Fact #5 When a goose gets sick or wounded or


shot down, two geese drop out of formation and
follow it down to help and protect it. They stay
with it until it is able to fly again, or dies. Then
they launch out on their own, with another
formation, or they catch up with their flock.

Lesson Learned If we have as much sense as

geese do, we too, will stand by each other in


difficult times as well as when we are
strong.
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LAST LINE!
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
- Henry Ford

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