Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The dynamics of a team
- The purpose of different types of teams
- Different types
- Temporary
- Permanent
- interdependent
- Cross functional
- Temporary
- Time listed task groups to complete projects or specific short term tasks or an excess of work for the permanent team
- Permanent
- Long term members of staff who complete business as usual tasks
- Interdependent
- Team members contribute to an overall goal
- Team members support one another to complete the task
- Often have similar roles and skills so they are interchangeable
- Cross Functional
- Team members are drawn from different areas of the organisation with different specialisms to solve problems or work o complex projects
- Stages of team development and behaviour
- Tuckmans stages of team development
- Forming: Dependent on leader for direction, individual roles not yet developed
- Storming: Team members compete for positions with one another and with the leader
- Adjourning: The group brakes up or moves onto a new project
- Norming: Team members accept their roles and responsibilities and cooperate with one another
- Performing: The team functions well and knows its purpose clearly, the leader delegates and oversees
- Typical behaviour of team members at each stage
- Forming: Positive, polite, anxious, excited to get on with the task
- Storming: Frustrated with leadership and team members
- Norming: respectful of leadership and team members strength and weaknesses
- Adjourning: positive if the team is moving onto a new project together, mournful if the team is being broken up
- Performing: productive, cooperative and efficient
- Concept of team role theory
- Team role theory: meaning of role, significance of roles played in a team members strengths and weaknesses
- Belbins team roles, contributions and allowable weaknesses of each role
- Plant: highly creative and good at problem solving, unconventional and forgetful
- Resource investigator: strong competitor with sector knowledge; can become forgetful and distracted from the purpose
- shaper: good at motivating others and keeping the team on target, can be aggressive or behave badly whilst trying to keep team on target
- Team worker: flexible and good at working team dynamics; can struggle to make decisions when facing opposition from other team members
- Implementer: practical and efficient in planning work; can be inflexible if alternative, more effective plans are put forward by other team members
- Completer finisher: high standards and good at evaluating team work; can be too picky
- Specialist: in depth knowledge of a specific area; may not see the bigger picture or be able to work flexibly in different areas.
- Monitor-evaluator: logical and impartial; too critical and slow