TEAMWORK

Youth Leadership Workshop

AGENDA

IntroductionFour Stages of Team Development

How to be an effective team member

Common problems

INTRODUCTIONWhat is teamwork?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 Development

How to be an effective team member

Common problems

FormingExcitement, expectations,

anxiety

StormingDifferent opinions,

conflicts and tensions, competitiveness and

defensiveness

NormingIncreased satisfaction,

trust, sharing responsibility, making

decisions

Performing Approaching the goals, members comfortable,

optimism

Norming

Get start

Organizing work

Understanding & managing

the group

Background and experience

Ideas about how to proceed as a group.

Leader?

Discuss and clarify the goals

Allocate responsibility

Time-line

Contribution

Expectation each meeting

Allocation responsibility

and deadlines

Check the process of the

group

AGENDA

IntroductionFour Stages of Team Development

How to be an effective team member

Common problems

HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE MEMBER

COMMUNICATE

DON’T BLAME OTHERSDON’T BRAG

LISTEN ACTIVELY FLEXIBLE COMPROMISE

DON’T GOSSIP

THE GOOD LEADER

Encourage everyone's contributions Maintain a positive

atmosphere

Must anticipate what information the group need Responsible for

beginning and ending on time

Discussion: participation as an equal

Concerns about members’ anxiety

Find out what people are good at and then assign roles accordingly.

THE EFFECTIVE GROUP Including everyone and their ideas Take turns by going around the group Generate ideas through brainstorming Focus on the direction of the group

DE BONO’S HATSThe White Hat – objective and fact-finding

The Red Hat – clarifies emotional reactions to the issue

The Black Hat – find all the bad aspects of the project

The Yellow Hat – focus on the benefits

The Green Hat – develop the creative ideas

The Blue Hat – planning, organizing and keeping track

HAT EXERCISE - CHAOTIC-LAND

A beautiful country that used to be visited by many tourists has had a terrorist attack a year ago and since then it has not had enough tourists.

HAT EXERCISE CHAOTIC-LAND

Task:Your group has to make a travel brochure about Chaotic-land to attract tourists.

Everything is possible, it is all up to you!

HAT EXERCISE – CHAOTIC-LAND

Discussion:

What are the purposes of the different hats?

Did it work? Any problems/conflicts? Can you relate the work you just

had in the group with the four stages?

BELBIN’S GROUP ROLE TEST

Purpose

Identify team members strong and week sides

Understand group collective capacity

Create most suitable group combination

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 5 minutes to finish the assignment.

AGENDA

IntroductionFour Stages of Team Development

How to be an effective team member

Common problem

PROBLEM 1

Some people are making fun and goof around in the middle of an important discussion and it is difficult to reach a solution because of them.

PROBLEM 2

One member of the group is very dominant and wants to be heard all the time, telling lengthy stories and not letting others finish.

PROBLEM 3

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

PROBLEM 4

One person in group the is less patient than the others. This person may pressure the group to move before the others are ready.

SUMMARY

Four Stages of team development

How to be an effective team member

WORKSHOP EVALUATION

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