Team Building and Group Dynamics

1. Kungumaselvan T
I-Ph.D
Agricultural Extension & Communication
2019607011
Recent Training Techniques

5. Team Building
• The process which causes a
group of people work together
effectively as a team to achieve
a common goal.
• A strategy that can help groups
to develop into a real team is
“team building”.

8. Principles of team building
• Have purpose
• Set clear objective
• Involve team while creating
agenda
• Design a follow up plan
• Have time to feedback
• Build a good relationship with
team mates

9. Team building exercises
Improves communication
skills

10. Scavenger Hunt
Improves thinking
and problem
solving skills

11. Desert Survival
Quick decision making

13. GROUP DYNAMICS
• Found by – Kurt Lewin - 1940
• The characteristics that affect how a group or
team functions.
• Study of group process
• Group – Collectivity of two or more persons
• Dynamics – force
• Interactions of forces among the group
members in a social situation.

14. Elements of group dynamics
Group size Tasks Leadership
Group
development
Group norms
Group
cohesiveness

15. Improving group dynamics
• Help the team to get introduce
• Clear expectations
• Divide the group in to teams
• Develop cohesiveness
• Effective communication skills
• Show commitment
• Show competency
• Problem solving
• Be humorous

17. Theories of group dynamics
• Balance theory
• Exchange theory
• Homans Interaction Theory

18. Balance theory
• Theodore Newcomb
• Persons are attracted to one another on the
basis of similar attitudes towards commonly
relevant goals.
• If imbalance occurs attempts made to restore
the balance.

20. Social Exchange Theory – John & Harold

22. Principles of group dynamics
• Develop rules
• Achieve clarity about goals
• Group decision making
• Effective communication
• Balance task and behaviour
• Appropriate leadership

23. Stages of group formation