Collaboration Through Team Building
Cindy Brewer, Consultant
Organization & Career Development
Thanks:
Denny McElhoe, Senior Training Specialist
A Module of Purdue University’s LeadingEdge Program
Collaboration Through Team Building
Session Objectives:
• Identify and understand teams and how they function.
•Demonstrate the skills necessary for the development of an
effective team.
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Survival Run Video
• Exercise – while watching the video write down the “team”
behaviors and characteristics that you observe.
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The Most Effective Teams:
• Share information openly
• Participate in the team’s task
• Encourage each other
• Use all of the team’s resources
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Activity:
Complete the Self-Awareness Assessment.
• Decide whether each of the statements is true (T) or false
(F) or if you are uncertain (?).
• Place your check in the appropriate column to the right
of each statement.
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When groups are formed into teams:
• Roles and interactions are not established.
• Some members may observe as they attempt to determine
what’s expected of them.
• Others engage the team process immediately.
• As members learn their roles they find ways to work
together and learn about team issues.
• These processes occur in 4 stages.
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Stage One - Forming
Period in which members are often guarded in
their interactions because they’re 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:
• Share responsibility
• Encourage open dialogue
• Provide structure
• Direct team issues
• Develop 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
decision- making.
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.
• Encourage two-way communication.
• Support 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:
• Communicate frequently and openly about concerns.
• Encourage members to manage the team process.
• Give positive and constructive feedback.
• Support consensus decision-making efforts.
• Delegate 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:
• Offer feedback when requested.
• Support new ideas and ways for achieving outcomes.
• Encourage ongoing self-assessment.
• Develop team members to their fullest potential.
• Look for ways to increase the team’s 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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The most effective teams arrive at decisions through
consensus by following a rational process that includes:
• Identifying the issue.
• Setting a specific objective.
• Gathering and analyzing the facts.
• Developing alternatives.
• Evaluating the alternatives.
• Deciding and acting.
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In addition to the problem solving process, teams must also
engage in interpersonal interaction.
Decisions are made and objectives are achieved not only
by effectively following the problem solving process, but
also to the extent that team members share information in
an open, candid, honest, and trustful manner.
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Activity:
“Hurricane Disaster” - problem solving and team
building exercise.
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Problem Solving Process
• Identifying the issue.
• Setting a specific objective.
• Gathering and analyzing the facts.
• Developing alternatives.
• Evaluating the alternatives.
• Deciding and acting.
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“Hurricane Disaster” Activity - Five essential strategies:
1. Issue an evacuation order and ensure it is communicated
throughout the entire community using all available resources.
2. Order that all designated emergency shelters be opened and
manned.
3. Instruct all public safety units to aid in an orderly evacuation
and in assisting those who cannot be evacuated to be transported
to the designated emergency shelters.
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“Hurricane Disaster Activity” - Five essential strategies:
4. Arrange for controlled access to evacuated areas and prepare
to prevent looting.
5. Plan for the return of the evacuees after the hurricane danger
is over: including shelter and relocation, damage assessment,
and recovery operations.
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In Review:
• Differences between groups and teams.
• 4 Stages of team development and ways to enhance team
development.
• Team problem solving process.
• Experienced the team building and problem solving processes.
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Cindy Brewer, Consultant
Organization & Career Development
A Module of Purdue University’s LeadingEdge Program