Teamwork

Youth Leadership Workshop

Agenda

IntroductionFour Stages of Team

DevelopmentDysfunctional Team Members

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.

Agenda

IntroductionFour Stages of Team

DevelopmentDysfunctional Team Members

The 4 stages of team development

Forming StormingNormingPerforming

Forming-stage

Characterized by:ExcitementAnxietyTestingDependence (on the assigned

leader)Trust?

Improve your seating position!

Exercise

Purpose - discussion

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

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?

Freeze-exercise

Your EAC (Chaotic-land) is going to have a café. Make a plan for how to carry it out.

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?

Storming-stage

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

Belbin’s group role test

Purpose Identify team members strong and

week sides Understand group collective capacity Create most suitable group

combination How to understand the test

See document ‘Understanding Belbin’s Role Test’

Belbin’s group role test

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

Break

De Bono’s Hats

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.

Norming-stage

Characterized by:Increased satisfactionDeveloping trust and respect and

sharing responsibilities.Giving feedback to othersMaking decisions

Discussion

What makes a good team member?

What makes a good leader?

What is the difference between these two roles?

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.

Performing-stage

Characterized by:High level of interactionIncreased performanceMembers more comfortable

with each otherConfident and optimistic

Discussion

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

Agenda

IntroductionFour Stages of Team

DevelopmentDysfunctional Team Members

Dysfunctional team members

CondescendingBullyingBlockingAvoiding

WithdrawingJoking

Dominating

* Confront the person and talk about the problem.

Dysfunctional team members

Girl and boy made out at the last village party. Girl and boy do not talk any longer, and are creating an unpleasant atmosphere in the group

How do you fix it? Who has the responsibility of fixing it? Would a solution be to kick one of them

out?

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.

How do you fix it? 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.

How do you fix it? 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

Summary

IntroductionFour Stages of Team

DevelopmentDysfunctional Team Members

Workshop Evaluation

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