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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?
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