Facilitating Teamwork
6 important questions on Facilitating Teamwork
What are the characteristics of high-performance teams ?
- Complementary Skills
- Common Purpose
- Specific Goals
- Common Approach
- Mutual Accountability
- Provide the Necessary External Support
- Offer Team Skills Training
- Change the Team's Membership
What is needs to be observed for facilitation?
- Communication Patterns
- Decision- Making Procedures
- Process Interventions
What are the types of observable team role behaviors?
2)Maintenance behaviours that focus on meeting members’ social and emotional needs
3)Personal behaviour that only serve individual needs and usually interfere with the team’s task and maintenance needs.
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Obstacles to effective teamwork
2)Infighting
3)Shirking of responsibilities
4)Lack of trust
5)Critical skills gaps
6)Lack of external support
How do you overcome obstacles to effective teamwork?
2)Encourage teams to go for small wins
3)Build mutual trust
4)Appraise group and individual performances
5)Provide the necessary external support
6)Offer team skills training
7)Change the team’s membership
What are the different decision types?
An assertive statement followed by silence.
Self-Authorized agenda
An assertive statement follow by action implementing the suggestion.
The handclasp
A suggestion made by one person and implemented by another
Minority decision (does anyone object?)
An expressed agreement by a few that meets no resistance from the disjointed or undecided people
Voting
Majority wins
Polling
Checking with each group member to obtain his or her opinion
Consensus
Essential agreement by all.
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