TeamworkTeamwork

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• Teamwork• What Is a Team?• Benefits of a Team• Stages of Team

Development

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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

- Andrew Carnegie

TeamworkTeamwork

A team is a collection of individuals, each with his/her own expertise, brought together to benefit a common goal.

What Is a Team?What Is a Team?

Benefits of a TeamBenefits of a Team

• Shared workload

• Chances for leadership and personal satisfaction

• A sense of belonging to a successful process

• The ability to accomplish more than if work is performed independently

1. Forming

2. Storming

3. Norming

4. Performing

5. Adjourning

Stages of Team DevelopmentStages of Team Development

• Initial team formation• Team members share information about

themselves• First impressions• Identify the team’s mission

Stage 1: FormingStage 1: Forming

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• Identify strengths and weaknesses

• List individual talents, skills, and limitations

• Share experience

• Remember that each team member’s strengths are a support mechanism for the weaknesses of other team members

Stage 1: FormingStage 1: Forming

Team members share information

Identify the team’s mission• What does the team have to do?

• How will the team accomplish the task?

• What information is needed?

• What resources are available?

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Stage 1: FormingStage 1: Forming

• Competition among team members• Difference of opinions• Learn how to work together• Settle into roles and share responsibility

Stage 2: StormingStage 2: Storming

• Mutual respect among team members

• Team members work collaboratively

• Focus on team goals (rather than individual goals)

• Agree on team rules (norms)• Significant progress toward goals

Stage 3: NormingStage 3: Norming

Establishing Group Norms• Create a list of norms by brainstorming

with teammates.

• Analyze each norm and discuss its impact on the team and the overall goal.

• Identify key norms that everyone can come to consensus on.

• Commit to follow these rules

• Establish consequences if norms are broken.

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Stage 3: NormingStage 3: Norming

Typical Group Norms• Input from all team members

• Meeting schedule and project timeline

• Communication protocols

• Conflict resolution protocols

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Stage 3: NormingStage 3: Norming

A copy of the established norms should be provided to each team member.

• Team members know each other, trust each other, and rely on each other

• Team functions at a high level• Focus on reaching team goals• Conflict and changes are handled quickly

without interruption in team progress

Stage 4: PerformingStage 4: Performing

• Project comes to a close• Team members leave group• Sadness at separation

Stage 5: AdjourningStage 5: Adjourning

Table of ContentsTable of Contents

• Teamwork• What Is a Team?• Benefits of a Team• Stages of Team Development

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