This document discusses teams, teamwork, and team building. It defines a team as a group of individuals working together to achieve a common goal, as opposed to a group which works independently. Effective teams have diverse ideas, share workloads, and quickly solve problems. Key teamwork skills include listening, questioning, persuading, respecting others, and sharing. Successful teams set goals, understand strengths and weaknesses, delegate tasks, communicate, resolve conflicts, and reward teamwork. The stages of team building are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.

1. Team building & Teamwork

2. What is a team?
It is a group of individuals working together to achieve
a goal.

3. What is the difference between Team and
Group?
Team
• 2 or more individuals.
• Work together regularly.
• They complete each other’s
work.
• Share a goal or purpose.
Group
• 3 or more individuals.
• Work independantly of each
other.
• Work to reach the
organizational goal.

4. why should we be a team?
1. Achievement of goals
2. Learning.
3. Better decision

5. • 4. Diversity of idea
• 5. Distribution of work load
• 6. quick solution of problems

6. Teamwork skills :
• Listen.
• Question.
• Persuade.

7. • Respect.
• Help.
• Share.
• Participate.

8. People you need on your team :
Visionary
strategist communicator
analyst
Worker
bee
innovator

9. Team building formation.
forming storming
performance
norming

10. 1.Forming (testing)
•
•
Pride in
being
chosen
Excitement
optimism
Fear
anxiety
Group
rules
Define
the
issue

11. Types of people in the team.
initiator
optimist
pessimist
devil’s
advocate
realist
Summarizer
Time
manager

12. Initiator:
Someone who suggests new idea. One or more people can have this role in a team.

13. Optimist:
• Enthusiastic.
• Believer.
• Unstoppable.
• Encourage others.

14. Pessimist:
• Completely opposite to the optimist.
• Believe in the worst case scenario.
• Important in no wrong decision.

15. The devil’s advocate:
• Not pessimist.
• Ask questions necessary or not.
• Challenges the team to think outside the box.

16. Realist:
• Intermediate.
• Accurate calculations and measurments.

17. Summarizer:
Someone who summarize a list of options.

18. Time manager:
Someone who tacks the time spent on each portion of the meeting.

19. 2.Storming.
• Poor collaboration.
• Realize the difficulty of the task.
• resistant to the task
• Have attitude swings about chances of
success.

20. Norming (team spirit)
• Member accept your team.
• Team rules and procedures
• Start helping each other.
• Start being more cooperative.
• Willingness to confront issues and solve problem.

21. Performing.
• Better understanding of each other’s strenghts and
weaknesses
• Ability to prevent conflict.

22. Adjourning.
• The work is done.
• Celebrate by what they have done.

23. Why do teams fail?
1. Lack of planning.
2. Lack of leadership
3. Lack of training
4. Inability to deal with
conflict.

24. 5. Lack of time
management
6. Absence of trust
7. Lack of commitment

25. How can a team be effective and successful?
• Set realistic goals.
• Know their strengths and weaknesses.
• Delegate responsibility.
• Let team member communicate

26. • Be a good example.
• Conflict resolution
• Clear rules

27. • Mutual trust.
• Mutual support
• Reward your team members.

28. • Task.
Team
player
teamwork
Team
building