Understanding Team Dynamics: Roles, Skills, and Effective Collaboration
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Considerations • What tasks will it carry out • Why this can not be done by an individual • How many people will the team require • What skills will be required
Consider how to: • Get the right people in the team • Get them to work together • Raise their standard of performance
Teams need to be able to: • Co-operate • Co-ordinate • Communicate
Team Members Abilities: • Technical or professional competence • Ability to work as a team member • Desirable personal attributes
Group Development • Forming • Storming • Norming • Performing
Individual Roles Within a team there are two types of individual role: • functional role as assigned by the structure of the organisation e.g. head of department, deputy, etc. • team role as played by the individual within the team, the role of the person within the team will depend on the persons personality.
Roles according to Clutterbuck • Generators • Integrators • Developers • Perfecters
Bellbin’s Role Types • Chairman / Co-ordinator • Organiser / Implementer • Shaper • Plant • Resource investigator • Monitor / Evaluator • Team worker • Completer - finisher
The Needs within the Group • Task • Group • Individual
Task • This is the need to accomplish something. The task is the purpose of the group. It is seen as a thing rather than as people.
Group • This refers to the maintenance of the group, it maintains working relationships between members in order that the group can accomplish its task. • This refers to people and how they relate to each other.
Individual • This looks at the needs of the individual members of the group, why they are part of the group, consider motivation.
Cohesion - influenced by • Physical proximity - If people work closely together they tend to form a group. • Length of time together - If a number of people are together for a length of time, the longer they are together the more they will work together as a team. • Similar work - Those carrying out the same sort of work are able to assist and help each other thus forming a bond.
Homogeneity - People work better together if they share such characteristics as, race, age, sex, social status etc. • Communication - It is important that members can communicate with each other. • Size - Small groups of under 15 members are more likely to develop cohesion than larger groups.
Maintaining the Group • Reviewing • Debrief
Reviewing • Why we exist, what are we here for? • What or who would be affected if we went out of existence? • Are there more cost-effective ways our purpose and aim could be achieved than having this team? • Has there been a significant change in our mission as a team. • Have we perceived or been given, new responsibilities? • Are we still the right people to be tackling this work? • Does it still need a team effort?
Debrief • Was the goal clear? • Was the plan clear? • Was the plan workable? • Was the plan flexible? • Did everyone know what they were supposed to be doing? • Did everyone do their part? • Did everyone work together? • What skills or knowledge was lacking?
