Team building involves creating teams that work effectively together to achieve common goals while addressing individual needs. It builds awareness of factors influencing team performance and teaches skills to improve effectiveness. Objectives include developing a vision for improved effectiveness, addressing business problems, and teaching skills to lead teams and coordinate processes. Teams progress through forming, storming, norming, and performing stages as they develop cohesion and productivity. Characteristics of effective teams include clear purpose, participation, listening, consensus decisions, and shared leadership.

1. TEAM BUILDING

2. WHAT IS TEAM BUILDING?
 Builds awareness of factors that influence team
performance
 Learns to examine performance with respect to those
factors
 Takes action to improve effectiveness
 Sets common goals, makes decisions, resolves
differences, and solves common problems

3. — in ways that promote the teams mission while
addressing individual needs.

4. OBJECTIVES
 Create a realistic vision of improved effectiveness
 Develop teams that will address current business
problems or expand World Class capabilities.
 Teach participants capabilities and skills
 Train internal resources to lead team meetings,
instruct other teams, and coordinate the team building
processes
 Establish and document plans for the team-building
process

5. SIR EDMUND HILLARY
SHERPA TENZING NORGAY

6. Symbiosis , in biology, term for the interdependence of
different species.
There are three main types of symbiosis, based upon the
specific relationship between the species involved:
mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism.

7. A synergy is where two or more things applied together have a greater
or significantly different effect than the sum of effects of the things
applied separately.
If used in a business application it means that teamwork will produce
an overall better result than if each person was working toward the
same goal individually.

8. We can define a team as a group of people who come together
under shared leadership, mutual responsibility, and conscious
authority to achieve agreed-upon goals in a mutually effective
fashion.

9. TEAM TYPES
 The Traditional Model
 A group of people who have a traditional boss but whom also share
some of his/her responsibility and authority.
 The Team Spirit Model
 A group of people who are happy working for one boss, and
everything seems to be going well.
 The Cutting Edge Model
 A group of people who manage themselves.
 The Task Force Model
 A group that comes together for a specific time to work on a special
project or task.
 The Cyber Team
 In this team model, members see one another infrequently or not at
all.

10. DIVERSITY
 variety: a variety of something such as opinion, color,
or style a city of great cultural diversity
 social inclusiveness: ethnic variety, as well as
socioeconomic and gender variety, in a group, society,
or institution a company committed to diversity
 discrepancy: discrepancy, or a difference from what is
normal or expected
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 Diversity is a simple business reality.
 What do you see as the advantages and
disadvantages?

12. FORMING
 A set of individuals
 Individuals want to establish personal identity within
the group
 Participation is limited
 Individuals begin to focus on task at hand
 Evolving ground rules 

13. STORMING
 Conflicts and lack of unity
 Preliminary ground rules are damaged
 Hostile toward each other
 Friction increases
 Successfully handled, leads to new and more realistic
objectives, procedures, and norms 

14. NORMING
 Overcomes tensions and develops group cohesion
 Acceptance of idiosyncrasies
 Allegiance develops
 Spirit develops 

15. NORMS
 All teams, whether they know it or not, have norms,
rules, or guidelines that guide the behaviour of team
members.
 Norms can be positive and thus help the team be an
effective organization.
 Norms can also be counter productive.

16. NORMING ACTIVITY
 What was your best experience as a team member?
 What happened?
 What made it special?
 Develop several norms for how you want to work
together during this workshop.
 What do you want?
 What do you not want? 

17. PERFORMING
 Characterized by full maturity and maximum
productivity
 Members take on roles to fulfill the group activities
 Roles become flexible and functional
 Energy is channeled into identified tasks
 New insights and solutions begin to emerge 

18. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN
EFFECTIVE GROUP
 Clear Purpose
 Informality
 Participation
 Listening
 Civilized Disagreements
 Consensus Decisions
 Open Communication
 Clear Roles and Work Assignments
 Shared Leadership
 External Relations
 Style Diversity
 Self-Assessment 
 What other characteristics can you think of ?

19. TORI MODEL

20. TORI MODEL
 T is for Trust: interpersonal confidence and absence of
fear.
 O is for Openness: free flow of information, ideas,
perceptions, and feelings.
 R is for Realization: self-determination, being role
free, doing what you want to do.
 I is for Interdependence: reciprocal influence, shared
responsibility, and leadership.

21. THE SUPERVISOR
 Involves everyone.
 Keeps the group on track toward the objectives.
 Helps the group understand its own processes in order to work more effectively.
 Supports members in assessing their current skills, as well as building new skills.
 Provides feedback to the group members so they can assess their progress and make
adjustments.
 Manages conflict using a collaborative approach.
 Achieves agreement.
 Helps deal with difficult people.
 Helps the group communicate effectively.
 Helps the group access resources from inside and outside the group.
 Creates an environment where members enjoy a positive, growing experience while they
work to attain group goals.
 Fosters leadership in others by sharing the responsibility for leading the group.
 Teaches and empower others to facilitate.

22. Teams, not
individuals, are the
fundamental learning
unit in modern
organizations. Unless
the team can learn,
the organization
cannot learn
The Fifth Discipline: The Art
& Practice of the Learning
Organization

23. SURVIVAL
 A quick source of energy until you can find or catch food.
 Essential for typing down your windbreak and useful making fishing lines or snares for small animals.
 Might be used to signal planes at night; more important for, going to the bathroom in the dark.
 Usually too overcast to see the stars, and besides it would be foolhardy to seek a way to the nearest mining
town in the dark, what with all the bogs and streams. Better used as toilet paper.
 In this menacing wasteland, pure water is one of nature's few gifts to you.
 Not enough for even tiny nightcaps, but a good antiseptic.
 You'll need it to chop firewood and maybe smash holes in the lake ice for fishing.
 Razor blades are handy tools and the mirror might be useful to flash signals to a passing plane, although
the sky is generally dark or overcast.
 Necessary for the hunters and fishermen, and helpful for shovelling snow or scratching messages in the
snow to attract rescue parties, who will scour the area in low-flying planes.
 If you don't quickly build a fire to dry out, get warm, and stay warm, your chance of survival is nil.
 You are too close to the magnetic pole for it to point north reliably; besides the terrain is too treacherous
for hiking.
 Use it as a windbreak and reflector of multiply the effectiveness of your fire.
 A generally useful material when cut into strips, e.g. for slingshots.
 Strings and other parts could be bent into fish hooks.
 The fire is not going to keep enough people from freezing on frigid nights.

24. SUGGESTED SOLUTION
1. Matches If you don't quickly build a fire to dry out, get warm, and stay warm, your chance of survival is nil.
2. Hatchet You'll need it to chop firewood and maybe smash holes in the lake ice for fishing.
3. Canvas Use it as a windbreak and reflector of multiply the effectiveness of your fire.
4. Sleeping bags The fire is not going to keep enough people from freezing on frigid nights.
5. Maple syrup A quick source of energy until you can find or catch food.
6. Nylon rope Essential for typing down your windbreak and useful making fishing lines or snares for small animals.
7. Snowshoes Necessary for the hunters and fishermen, and helpful for shovelling snow or scratching messages in the snow to attract rescue
parties, who will scour the area in low-flying planes.
8. Punctured Inner Tube A generally useful material when cut into strips, e.g. for slingshots.
9. Shaving Kit Razor blades are handy tools and the mirror might be useful to flash signals to a passing plane, although the sky is generally dark
or overcast.
10. Flashlight Might be used to signal planes at night; more important for, going to the bathroom in the dark.
11. Bottle or rum Not enough for even tiny nightcaps, but a good antiseptic.
12. Alarm clock Strings and other parts could be bent into fish hooks.
13. Magnetic compass You are too close to the magnetic pole for it to point north reliably; besides the terrain is too treacherous for hiking.
14. Star navigation book Usually too overcast to see the stars, and besides it would be foolhardy to seek a way to the nearest mining town in the dark,
what with all the bogs and streams. Better used as toilet paper.
15. Water Purification Tablets In this menacing wasteland, pure water is one of nature's few gifts to you.