Successful teamwork
About the Lecture
The lecture Successful teamwork by Michael Schmitz is from the course Effective communication through soft skills. It contains the following chapters:
- Agenda
- Improving teamwork
- Five stages of team development
- S1: Formation
- S2: Storming
- S3: Cooperation
- S4: Performance
- S5: Adjourning
- Overview
Included Quiz Questions
Efficient reviews require three elements:
- Situation
- Budget
- Time Planning
- Behaviour team member
- Behaviour team leader
The five stages model includes the following stages:
- Forming, Storming, Norming, Performance, Adjourning
- Performing, Adjourning, Nominating, Advocating, Forming
- Adjourning, Advocating, Adjusting, Abjuring, Absoluting
- Norming, Storming, Forming, Perforating, Adjourning
The forming stage ...
- requires a visible team leader who provides structure and a clear goal.
- should be relaxed and without an obvious leader.
- requires team members to wait until progress is made.
- should allow team members to focus on their own goals.
How can the forming stage be completed in an efficient and effective way?
- The leader should create a positive environment.
- The focus should be on providing opportunities for 2-on-2’s.
- The leader should do personality assessments with all team members.
- The leader should let the team members accomplish little task so that they can experience early-wins of teamwork.
- The focus should be on providing opportunities for 1-on-1’s.
Storming ...
- should be structured.
- should allow the team leader to enforce solutions and to direct people.
- should gather the whole group in one heated circle.
- can be emotional, direct and honest until everybody has been heard and is satisfied.
Norming ...
- requires the team leader to clearly communicate relevant goals, roles, tasks and the final schedule. Culture is included as well.
- requires the team leader to clearly communicate relevant goals, roles, tasks and the final schedule. Culture is not important.
- requires the team members to clearly communicate relevant goals, roles, tasks and the final schedule. Culture is included as well.
- requires the team members to clearly communicate relevant goals, roles, tasks and the final schedule. Culture is not important.
The performance stage can be completed in an efficient and effective way by ...
- communicating through documents, telephone, workspace or softwares.
- minimizing communication through emails.
- having meetings that have an agenda, visualize the problem and let people walk while they talk.
- maximizing communication through emails.
- communicating most of the time face to face.
In the adjourning stage it is important to ...
- have clear rules and structures (e.g. separation fees), provide a smooth transition and have a structured process for documents.
- have clear rules and structures (e.g. separation fees), provide a party at the end and have a structured process for documents.
- Have clear rules and structures (e.g. separation fees), a structured process for documents and a last meeting with all team members.
- provide a smooth transition, have a structured process for documents and write the final report.
The core stage ...
- does not exist.
- is key in preparing the core targets and results.
- allows the core team members to focus on their work.
- separates between leaders and followers.
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Author of lecture Successful teamwork
Michael Schmitz
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Excerpts from the accompanying material
... 1. Gather a group: Forming 2. Conflict is necessary: ...
... Provide structure. Introduce, initiate task focus. Support leader. ...
... people Lacks scientific validity. Practical use: Initiate discussion. ...
... Arrange sufficient time for discussion. Support leader in guiding through phase Discussion of relevant ...
... on interest, not positions. Invent options for mutual gain. ...
... and tasks clearly defined and communicated. Insist on open communication. Provide clear acceptance ...
... ask team to ratify agreement. Allow criticism and return to storming ...
... Task, Expected end time, Problems? Avoid micro management - accept errors. ...
... Minimize emails: Documents, telephone, workspace, software. ...
... planing for the future Manage transition (discussion, support, growth). Plan in advance. ...
... rules and structures: Separation fee. Provide transition, focus on ...
... Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning, Charter ...
