TEAM WORK & LEADERSHIP

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THE A-TEAM

TEAM MEMBERS :• MURDOCK• HANNIBAL• FACE• BARCUS

TEAM SIZE : 4

TYPE OF TEAM: Cross-Functional Type of Team

Team members

BARACUS Face

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Creating a Team

Team formation takes time, and usually follows some easily recognizable stages, as the team journeys from being a group of strangers to becoming united team with a common goal.

Stages in Team Building

FormingStormi

ngNorming

Performing

In movie, initially the Team members are unknown to each other. Hannibal hire them to accomplish a task. Earlier the team members did not like each other. But when the team have good cohesiveness in its norming stage, they worked very efficiently and able to achieve goal…..

Roles of A-Team Members

• COL HANNIBAL SMITH is very experienced & retired army officer. he is very responsible person and have very sharp mind. He worked as a team leader of A-TEAM.

• BARACUS is very angry and powerful man. He is also from army background.

•Face is very cool minded young man. At the face makes a wonderful plan to achieve their goal.

•CAPT. MURDOCK is very innovative type of personality. He was a fighter pilot so he has very good knowledge of airplanes and helicopters.

Cross-Functional Team

Members from about the same hierarchical level, but from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task

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How do they form a “GREAT” team ?

Lots of training

Hire smart people

Good Leadership

Different specialization…

What makes a team as effective ?

•An effective team has certain characteristics that allow the team members to function more efficiently and productively.

In movie The A-team is very effective because they have following characteristics: • A very good and experienced team leader they have• Small size of 4 members• Moderate cohesiveness• very good Coordination between team members• Goal and task oriented• Cross functional team (different specialized members)

Team Roles - Leader

• Hannibal was a team leader in movie. He makes a team of 4 members for accomplishing a task.

•He always encourage members and maintain open communication.

• In a very tough situation he shows patience and always encourage team members to never give up.

•He always focused on the task.

How they make plan / Blueprint

Creating Effective Teams: Work Design

Freedom and Autonomy Ability to work independently

Skill Variety Ability to use different skills and talents

Task Identity Ability to complete a whole and identifiable task or product

Task Significance Working on a task or project that has a substantial impact on

others

Group Decision-making Techniques in movie

BrainstormingAn idea-generation process that specifically encourages any and all alternatives while withholding any criticism of those alternatives

Nominal Group TechniqueA group decision-making method in which individual members meet face-to-face to pool their judgments in a systematic but independent fashion

Team thoughts

Conclusion

If you only remember one thing remember this: A team is only as strong as its weakest member so team members need to pull together to accomplish the task at hand.

Thank you….