Teamwork Youth Leadership Workshop. Teamwork exercise Human pyramid

Teamwork

Youth Leadership Workshop

Teamwork exercise

Human pyramid

Agenda

IntroductionTeam Purpose and MissionTeam GoalsFour Stages of Team DevelopmentTeam Member RolesManaging Team ConflictSeven Pillars of Membership

Character

Introduction

Why are we here? Educate ourselves in how to use our

energy more efficiently. Learn the skills of proper teamwork. Minimize frustration. Get a uniformed idea of what good

teamwork is. Gather knowledge.

Agenda

IntroductionTeam Purpose and MissionTeam GoalsFour Stages of Team DevelopmentTeam Member RolesManaging Team ConflictSeven Pillars of Membership

Character

Purpose - discussion

What are the advantages of having a defined purpose from the beginning?

A purpose serves to direct and motivate the team in pursuit of its goals. It also provides the foundation for developing goals and action plans that will assist the team in reaching its desired outcome.

Mission Formulation

Mission statement - UWC

UWC makes education a force to unite people, nations and

cultures for peace and a sustainable future.

Mission statement – Red Cross

The purpose of the Red Cross is to protect life and health and ensure respect for the human being. It is

guided solely by individual need. It makes no distinction as to

nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinion.

Chaotic-land

Background: Chaotic-land is a country in crisis. Your

new EAC is a group, the purpose of which is to raise money for Chaotic-land.

You need to develop a mission statement for the project. Divide yourselves into groups of 5-6 persons. Each group writes down a mission statement for their EAC.

Chaotic-land

Task: Formulate 1-2 sentence mission

statement by considering the following questions:

Why is the team necessary? What is the purpose of our group? How do you work? (information, money,

local projects) Who is benefiting from us doing a good

job?

Agenda

IntroductionTeam Purpose and MissionTeam GoalsFour Stages of Team DevelopmentTeam Member RolesManaging Team ConflictSeven Pillars of Membership

Character

SMART

S – Specific M – Measurable A – Attainable R – Relevant T – Time Bound

Make a plan and define your goals!

Your EAC (Chaotic-land) is going to have a café. Make a plan and define the goals according to the SMART model.

What am I doing right now? What am I trying to achieve? How does that relate to the purpose of the

group? Is it clear to me what others around me are

doing? How much more clarification do I need to be

effective?

Agenda

IntroductionTeam Purpose and MissionTeam GoalsFour Stages of Team DevelopmentTeam Member RolesManaging Team ConflictSeven Pillars of Leadership

Character

The 4 stages of team development

Forming StormingNormingPerforming

Forming-stage

Characterized by:ExcitementAnxietyTestingDependence (on the assigned

leader)Trust?

Storming-stage

Characterized by:Resistance to different approachesSharp attitude changesCompetitiveness & defensivenessTension & disunity

Norming-stage

Characterized by:Increased satisfactionDeveloping trust and respect and

sharing responsibilities.Giving feedback to othersMaking decisions

Performing-stage

Characterized by:High level of interactionIncreased performanceMembers more comfortable

with each otherConfident and optimistic

Building-exercise

Build a tower out of Lego

Everybody will get a piece of paper with a hidden agenda.

You are not allowed to talk to each other during the exercise.

You have 8 minutes to finish the assignment.

Discussion

Reflect upon and share with other participants any personal experiences of teams to identify Forming Storming Norming Performing

Break… or Belbin Test, if you haven’t

done it yet.

Improve your seating position!

Exercise

Agenda

IntroductionTeam Purpose and MissionTeam GoalsFour Stages of Team DevelopmentTeam Member RolesManaging Team ConflictSeven Pillars of Membership

Character

Discussion

What defines a good team member?

What defines a good leader?

What is the difference between these two roles?

Belbin’s group role test

Purpose Identify team members’ strong and

weak sides Understand group collective capacity Create most suitable group

combination How to understand the test

‘Understanding Belbin’s Role Test’ What are you?

Belbin’s group role test

Things to be aware of, dealing with teamwork: Your result Find your place Give space Distribution of work Common goals before personal goals

Agenda

IntroductionTeam Purpose and MissionTeam GoalsFour Stages of Team DevelopmentTeam Member RolesManaging Team ConflictSeven Pillars of Membership

Character

De Bono’s Hats and Talking-Stick Method

The White HatThe Red Hat

The Black HatThe Yellow HatThe Green HatThe Blue Hat

Issue: World Today has invited a guest speaker to come and talk about the situation in Chaotic-land.

During the presentation, several students in the back are talking loudly.

How do you solve this problem?

Dysfunctional team members

CondescendingBullyingBlockingAvoiding

WithdrawingJoking

Dominating

* Confront the person and talk about the problem.

Dysfunctional team members

50% of the group is always late for meetings and do not contribute to the work. It seems they are more interested in writing the EAC on their university application than anything else.

What would you do? What should you do, if you are the

“problem”?

Dysfunctional team members

In the group there are 2-3 persons who never say anything in the meetings and never volunteer for assignments.

What would you do? Why does this happen, and how do you

avoid it?

Dysfunctional team members

You are the leader of a group that is preparing a project. Two members in your team possess contrasting personalities and find it hard to work together without tensions.

What would you do as leader? What can you do as other team member? Why does this happen, and how do you avoid it?

How do you identify such a leader? How do you fix this problem?

Dysfunctional team LEADER

Agenda

IntroductionTeam Purpose and MissionTeam GoalsFour Stages of Team DevelopmentTeam Member RolesManaging Team ConflictSeven Pillars of Membership

Character

Seven Pillars of Membership Characteristics

Caring Courage Honesty Integrity Responsibility Loyalty Fairness …are there more pillars?

Summary

IntroductionTeam Purpose and MissionTeam GoalsFour Stages of Team DevelopmentTeam Member RolesManaging Team ConflictSeven Pillars of Membership

Character

Workshop Evaluation

What did you learn? Can you use any of this? What was the best/worst part? Improvement suggestions?

Thank you for your cooperation!