2. TEAM DEVELOPMENT
• Youth Organization
-A youth organization is a collection of teams composed of young people.
• Factors Contributing to Team Development and Effectiveness
. - the development of a team is based on the assumption that any team can work more effectively.
Four Factors
1. Shared goals and objectives
2. Utilization of resources
3. Trust and conflict resolution
4. Shared leadership
3. • Team Relationship and Management
1. A team is a number of persons associated together in a work or activity
2. In their relationship in an organization or movement, people have various expectations of each other.
3. The management of the organization depends on proper coordination.
• Building a Better Team
1. Teamwork
-reflects camaraderie
-reflects unity
-divides the effort and multiplies the success
4. • Characteristics of an Effective Team
1. Share a sense of purpose or common goals
2. Aware of and interested in its own processes and examines norms operating within the group depending on
its needs
3. Identifies its own resources and uses them depending on its needs.
4. Continue to listen to and clarify what is said and show interest in what others say and feel.
5. Differences of opinion are encouraged and freely expressed.
6. Willing to unravel any conflict and focus on it until it is resolved or managed in a way that does not reduce
the effectiveness of those involved
7. Exerts energy towards problem-solving
8. Roles are balanced and shared to facilitate both the accomplishment of tasks and feelings of team cohesion
and morale
9. To encourage risk-taking and creativity
10. Responsive to the changing needs of its members
11. Members are committed to periodical evaluation of the team’s performance
12. The team is attractive to its members, who identify with it and consider it as a source of both professional
and personal growth.
13. Developing a climate of trust is recognized as the crucial element of facilitating all of the aforementioned
elements.
5. • The Characteristics of Effective Team Leaders
1. Communicate
2. Are open, honest and fair
3. Make decisions with inputs from others
4. Act consistently
5. Give the team members the information they need to
do their jobs
6. Set goals and emphasize them
7. Keep focused through follow-up
8. Listen to feedback and ask questions
9. Show loyalty to the organization, the team, and team
members
10. Create an atmosphere of growth
11. Have wide visibility
12. Give praise and recognition
13. Criticize constructively and address problems
14. Develop plans
15. Share their mission and goals
16. Display tolerance and flexibility
17. Demonstrate assertiveness
18. Exhibit a willingness to change
19. Treat team members with respect
20. Make themselves available and accessible
21. Want to take charge
22. Accept ownership for team decisions
23. Set guidelines for the appropriate treatment of
team members with one another
24. Represent the team and lead a “good fight” when
appropriate
6. • A Dream Team Leader
A dream team leader provides the support needed for success (Maxwell, 1995).
Dictators Facilitators
1. Hoard or monopolize decisions
2. Make decisions alone or restrict them to
an elite group
3. View truth and wisdom as their domains
since they are leaders
4. Surprise their workers with edicts from
above
5. Guard their own interests
6. Take things for themselves
1. Push decisions down the line
2. Involve others as much as possible, in
key decisions and give people space to
make those decisions
3. View truth and wisdom as being
accessible to everyone throughout the
organization
4. Let those responsible decide how the
jobs will be done
5. Serve everyone’s interest by developing
people
6. Give to the organization
7. • Characteristics of Effective Team Members
1. Support the team leader
2. Help the team leader to succeed
3. Ensure that all viewpoints are explored
4. Express opinion, both for and againsts
5. Compliment to the team leader on team efforts
6. Provide open, honest, and accurate information
7. Support, protect, and depend both the team and the team leader
8. Act in a positive and constructive manner
9. Provide appropriate feedback
10. Understand personal and team rules
11. Bring problems to the team (upward feedback)
12. Accept ownership for team decisions
13. Recognized that they individually served as a team leader
14. Balance appropriate levels of participation
15. Participate voluntarily
16. Maintain confidentiality
17. Show loyalty to the organization, the team leader, and the team
18. View critism as an opportunity to learn
19. State problems, along with alternative solutions/opinions
20. Give praise and recognition when warranted
21. Operate within the parameters of team rules
22. Confront the team leader when his/her behavior does not help
the team
23. Share ideas freely and enthusiastically
24. Encourage others to express their ideas fully
25. Ask one another for opinions and listen to them
26. Criticize ideas, not people
27. Avoid disruptive behavior such as side conversations and inside
jokes
28. Avoid defensiveness when fellow team members disagree with
their ideas
29. Attend meetings regularly and promptly
8. • Seven Team Well-being Secrets
1. Purpose
2. Role
3. Strategy
4. Processes
5. People
6. Feedback
7. interfaces
9. DYNAMIC DELEGATION
• Deciding What to Delegate and What to Do Yourself
“ The surest way for an executive to kill himself is to refuse to learn how, and when, and to whom to Delegate work. “
- James Cash Penny
Here are some tasks you can delegate to free up more time for the things that only you can do:
• Delegate routines
• Delegate areas of your job that require technical expertise
• Delegate the tasks and projects that are the most unfamiliar to you
• Delegate the functions of your job that you enjoy least
• Delegate some enjoyable things to others
• Delegate time to people so they can cross-train one another on their day-to-day tasks
• Delegate projects involving the critical,visible issues of quality,quantity,cost, and timelines to self-managed of self directed teams
