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Team Building
Mingle
Think about a team that you’ve been a part of - either from your personal or professional life.
In your experience, what’s been the best thing about working in a team?
What’s been the most challenging?
Learning Objectives
• Describe the importance of effectively functioning teams as an essential element to successful public health programs.
• Describe how to create more effective working relationships among
team members.
• Create positive and productive team agreements and norms.
• Select specific skills and tools when creating alignment within diverse
teams.
• Choose effective responses to resolve common problem behaviors
present in teams
Definitions
• A team can be defined as two or more people coming together to accomplish a specific task.
Examples:– Project teams– Coalitions– Management teams
Opportunities - Teams
• Leverage diversity• Harness individual knowledge/wisdom• Increase participation• Gain organizational buy-in• Generate more creative responses/solutions• Can be more productive
Common Team Challenges
• Don’t measure up to potential• Problem behaviors• Lack of clarity/shared accountability for goals• Ineffective decision making• Poor implementation and follow through• Lack empowerment and organizational
support
Team StrengthsSource: Team Diagnostic International
Relationships• Camaraderie• Communication• Constructive Interaction• Optimism• Respect• Trust• Values Diversity
Results• Accountability• Alignment• Decision Making• Goals & Strategies• Proactive• Resources• Team Leadership
Methods for Building Effective Teams
• Team assessment
• Team design
• Creating alignment
• Working with problem behaviors
Team Assessment and Design
• What might you want to assess about a team? How might you assess an existing or new team?
• What might you want to know in order to design positive and productive working relationships within a team?
• What would you want to explicitly design with a team?
Assessment: What?
• Team structure, members, history• Results strengths: accountability,
alignment, decision making, goals and strategies, ability to be proactive, resources, team leadership
• Relationships strengths: camaraderie, communication, constructive interaction, optimism, respect, trust, values diversity
Assessment: How?
• Interviews
• Surveys
• Review of existing team materials (agendas, minutes, ground rules, products)
• Observation
Potential Questions
• Strengths/challenges of team• Priorities/goals of team• Roles/responsibilities• Ground rules• Decision making process• Meeting structure, minutes, agenda• Leadership• Resources• Means of rewarding achievement/success• How team functions under stress• Vision of team• What team is tolerating
Design/Planning
• Priorities/goals/vision of team
• Team agreements/ground rules
• Roles/responsibilities/leadership
• Decision making process/accountability
Antidotes for Common Team Problem Behaviors
• Notice your own patterns.
• Call behaviors when you see them.
• Look for the request behind the complaint.
• Don’t make it/take it personally.
• Build positivity within the team.