A team is defined as a small group of consistent people committed to a shared purpose with complementary skills and a common approach. Effective teams have clear goals, competent members, shared commitment, collaboration, standards of excellence, and principled leadership. Team building activities aim to ensure the right people work together effectively by clarifying roles and responsibilities, communicating well, and resolving conflicts. The key characteristics of effective teams include shared objectives, shared leadership, trust, resource utilization, control procedures, problem solving, evaluation, and interpersonal communication.
2. What is a Team?
A team is a small number of consistent people committed
to a relevant shared purpose, with common performance
goals, complementary and overlapping skills, and a
common approach to their work.
Team members are mutually accountable for the
outcome.
3. Think of a Health Team
relevant shared principle –
The purpose or goal is defined by members of the team
working collaboratively.
Within the purpose each member has specific tasks which are
agreed have shared goals & objectives in relation to their work
ConsistentTeam members become comfortable and know each others’
skill levels
More committed to sharing knowledge and skills to fellow team
members as long as team exists
Mutually Accountable Everyone is accountable for the process, functioning of team
and accomplishment of results.
Compensate and contribute each other
4. Think of a Health Team
Complementary and overlapping skills–
Technical and functional expertise
Interpersonal skills
Supervisory and management skills
Committed to Common Approach Working methods and team process-in problem solving
Roles and responsibilities (team versus job roles)
Behavioral expectations
Environment of the team which includes trust for each other
Common performance goal Need to have goal that is closely related to the team’s purpose
5. Characteristics of a Health Team
1. A clear, elevating goal: all members should visualize the
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results of gaining the goal
The team should be driven by the results of their
efforts
Competent members
Unified commitment
A collaborative climate
Standards of Excellence
External support and recognition
Principled leadership
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7. TEAM BUILDING
Team Building: The process of gathering the right people
and getting them to work together for the benefit of a
project.
Effective teams are “result-oriented” and are committed
to project objectives, goals and strategies.
How can we work together effectively?
How can we better use our resources?
How can we communicate effectively?
What is impeding our performance?
8. Characteristics of an effective team
Team members having shared objectives
Team members are committed to achieving the team’s
objectives
In this team we are clear about what we are trying to achieve
Team members having shared leadership
Development and cohesion of a team occurs only with feeling of
shared leadership among all members
No one person can be expected to perform all the required
leadership functions.
All members perform both task and maintenance functions
9. Characteristics of an effective team
Team members having trust and conflict resolution
There is a high degree of trust among members and feel safety
Conflict is evident and worked through
Team members with perfect utilization of resources
The roles and responsibilities of each member of the team
should be clearly mentioned from the outset so that each
member of the team knows what to do and avoid duplication of
roles.
No important role will be missed by the team.
10. Characteristics of an effective team
Team members having control and procedures
Procedures
include meeting agendas, schedules of actions and
other action-oriented functions of the team.
The
team determines how it maintains control over what happens
during team meetings.
Control
includes such things as ground rules of behaviour, steps
followed during meetings, methods for consensus decisions,
timelines, and use of resources
Team members having Interpersonal Communications
•Involves open, honest discussions.
•Listening is high
•Achieve effective interpersonal communication through selfregulation.
11. Characteristics of an effective team
Team members having Problem Solving and Decision
Making
Everyone in the team contributes to decision making
Team members having Experimentation and Creativity
•Periodically move beyond the boundaries of established
procedures and processes in order to experiment with new ways
of accomplishing things
Team members having Evaluation
• Periodically examine its processes from both the task and
maintenance aspects.
•Should ‘stop’ and ‘look’ at how well it is doing and what, if anything,
may be hindering its operation.
•A reward system recognizing individual and team achievements
must be established.
32. FRIENDS…
LET’S BE LIKE THE GEESE AND
TOGETHER ENSURE WE
MAKE EVERYONE A
PRODUCTIVE
MEMBER OF OUR TEAM!!!
33. The Danger to “Team Work”
Whose job is it?
There were four people named EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY,
ANYBODY and NOBODY
There was an important task to be done and EVERYBODY
was asked to do it
EVERYBODY was sure SOMEBODY would do it
ANYBODY could have done it but NOBODY did it
SOMEBODY got angry about that because it was
EVERYBODY’s job but NOBODY realized that EVERYBODY
thought ANYBODY could do it
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when
Nobody did what Anybody could have done it.