...Running head: TIME MANAGEMENT AND TEAM BUILDING SKILLS Time Management and Team Building Skills Dr. Felicia Wilson Shorter University “Team Trial-Pack” Leevirt Agee, Lillie Momon, Kenyoda Pullen & Diane Williams March 27, 2012 Annotated Bibliography of Time Management Article Mpofu, E., DAmico, M., & Cleghorn, A. (1996). Time management practices in an African culture: Correlates with college academic grades. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 28(2), 102-112. http://search.proquest.com/docview/220529772?accountid=13843 This peer reviewed article was retrieved from the Proquest Social Science Journals database. Written in 1996, it is entitled, “Time management practices in an African culture: Correlates with college academic grades.” It was initially published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science by Elias Mpofu, of Educational Psychology and Special Education at the University of Zimbabwe. Other contributing scholars were Miranda D’Amico and Ailie Cleghorn, both of the Department of Education from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. The article’s basic purpose is to compare time management practices of 472 student-teachers from the Shona culture of Zimbabwe, with practices of western cultures in relation to college grade results. This was done by using 2 western time management models (“The Briton and Tesser” and “The Macan Model”) to correlate Zimbabwean cultural factors along with gender, age, grade point average, and year...
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...Team Building First let’s define the word team. Team is a group of people with a common, collective goal. A team is not based on one person. Like the saying “There is no 'I' in TEAM”. Forming successful teams can become a challenge. It’s a challenge because you have to get all the right people in one group. A bad apple can spoil the whole group. To have a successful team, a leader must have background knowledge of everyone on the team so that he will be able to help each one in a respectable manner, and it will help also later if a problem might occur among them. Team Building plays an important role in the workplace. Some team building experiences are successful and some are unsuccessful. Team building incorporates team work. Team work is when employees put aside their personal goals and preferences and work together cooperatively to achieve the team’s goal. Team Building also forms friendships and trust between employees. When the team is on the same page, everything runs smoothly. The steps a team leader takes to select workable teammates for a project can be challenging and frustrating task. Leaders should follow the four steps to create an effective team building: 1. Assess, 2. Plan, 3. Execute, 4. Evaluate. Step 1: Assess the teams developmental needs base on strengths and weaknesses by creating a lists with different categories. Step 2: Plan team-building activities based on the needs identified; referring to the entire no’s the team had. Step 3: Execute the planned...
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...HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH PERFROMANCE TEAMS High-performance teams have the following special characteristics that allow them to excel at teamwork and achieve special performance advantages: * The right mix of skills, including technical skills, problem-solving and decision-making skills, and interpersonal skills. * Strong core values that help guide their attitudes and behaviors in directions consistent with the team’s purpose. * Ability to turn a general sense of purpose into specific performance objectives. * Standards for measuring results and obtaining performance feedback * Willingness to help group members understand the need for collective vs. individual efforts. THE TEAM BUILDING PROCESS When newly founded, work groups and teams must master challenges as members come together and begin the process of growing and working together as they pass through the various stages of group development. Team building is a sequence of planned activities designed to gather and analyze data on the functioning of a group and to initiate changes designed to improve teamwork and increase group effectiveness. Team building is participatory and data based. The goal of team building is to get good answers to such questions as: 1. “How well are we doing in terms of task accomplishment.” 2. “How satisfied are we as individual members with the group and the way it operates?” TEAM-BUILDING ALTERNATIVES Formal...
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...TEAM MANAGEMENT MANA 4330, Section 001 Fall, 2010 Instructor: Dr. Terrance A. Wilensky Phone: 817- 272-0233(office); 214.735.7000 (cell) Office: 216 COBA E-Mail: twilensky@uta.edu Office Hours: 3:00-4:30 Tuesday and Thursday or by appointment Course Time & Location Tuesday and Thursday 11-12:20 PM COBA 245W Required Text: Lumsden, G., Lumsden, D., & Weithoff, C. (2010). Communicating in Groups and Teams: Sharing Leadership (5th. ed). Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning Course Content All organizations depend on people to carry out their tasks and work toward common goals, whether you work for a large or small corporation, a federal or state agency, or own your own business. Much of the time we spend working in organizations we spend working in teams. This course is designed to familiarize you with the dynamics of working in teams, to become more effective team members, and to lead teams. To accomplish this, we will examine a number of factors that influence team member interaction and ultimately team performance through lectures, slides, films, demonstrations, cases, and student class presentations. Additionally, this course is intended to provide you with the understanding and skill necessary to communicate effectively in any group, whether it is a social club, a religious organization, or a high-level executive committee in your future career. But it goes more specifically to your preparation for the intensive work in teams that...
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...The shift that has taken place today in the workplace in any organization has important implications for the skills that will be critical to the success of an individual in an organization. This shift involves increasing the emphasis on the group or team. Many factors are driving this shift. Technology is a primary force as tasks have grown too complex for individuals to tackle alone. In addition, competitive forces have led many organizations to flatten the organization by reducing the numbers of levels of middle managers. Shifting authority and responsibility down to the bottom level allows teams to take over functions that used to be done by management. On a macro scale, as organizations involve multiple businesses, multiple industries and multiple countries, new and complex issues are evolving that rely on numerous interdependent groups with decisions made by teams consisting of members of these various groups. Even without these forces, others have found that harnessing the potential power of the group can have a dramatic effect on productivity and job satisfaction. Today, most organizations embrace the notion of teams. Teams have become the core unit in many organizations. Part of this is based on the fact (and supported by research) that teams are more effective in solving problems and learn more rapidly than individuals. When it is working well, groups or teams can enhance problem solving and creativity, generate understanding, acceptance, support, and commitment. It...
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...money as well should be transferred as such in order to improve the situation,resentment among team members escalated, why is because others were notcompetent enough to do the work (Mokate 2007).The members of the team should be tolled of their expected roles to play within thegroup or teamwork and team skills seems to be a stagnating point to solving issues andprogressing. Teamwork skills include the following as stipulated by Scarnati (2001:5)“lack of listening skills, lack of respect, sharing, helping and participation. As teams growlarger, the skills and methods that people require grow as more ideas are expressedfreely but the problem is other teams cannot keep up with the rapid growth of teams andoften experience the following problems: • Absence of trust – it develops from the teams unwillingness to be vulnerablewithin the group and team members are often not genuinely open with oneanother about mistakes and weaknesses and making it impossible to build afoundation for trust. • Fear of Conflict – teams that lack trust are incapable of engaging in unfilteredpassionate debate of ideas and instead the only solution is resort to veileddiscussions and guarded comments.The causes of teamwork failure is group size cause large groups less productivityand coordination losses is mostly to take place within that organization, meaninginefficiency that result from the group member’s inability to combine their resource in a maximally productive way. Social loafing is the other ingredient...
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...Benefits of creating a team at work. Introduction “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” - Alexander the Great (BrainyQuote.com, 2012). This statement, made by one of the greatest leaders and military minds the world has ever known, applies to every aspect of business and life. Whether it’s a company, a sports team, or a military unit everyone in each of these groups depends on another person to succeed. In order to truly understand teamwork, team building, and what it means to be on a team, “team” must be defined. Team, by plain definition, is a group of people joined for a common goal, normally with talents or skills that complement each other to help them achieve their full potential (Armstrong, 2008, p.60-66). Teamwork consists of the following aspects: the characteristics of a team, leadership’s role in team building, and the benefits of a team approach in the business world. If a management team approaches and properly connects a team together, it will foster a better working environment for the employees, which will create a better atmosphere for the customer. Characteristics of a Team “The basic structure of a team includes a goal, a leader, a group, assessment, feedback and adjustment. Team development is a critical beginning in the process”(Business.com, 2012). There are ten characteristics of a team: (Gordon, 2002, p.185-188) 1. They must have clear goals. 2. Each person must have a defined role within the team. 3. There must...
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...In case scenario number one, the psychiatric nurse was being aggressive. Her choice of words and communication style were inappropriate, unprofessional, and rude. This situation required intervention from management including counseling with psychiatric nurse on respectful and tactful communication. The staff RN clearly does not value the input of the CNA and has no respect for his position or duties. Without teamwork and collaboration of all staff, there will be a breakdown in communication resulting in poor patient care. Rashad was trying to clarify his role and responsibilities through passive communication. Due to the aggressive response made by another team member, Rashad likely felt unappreciated and angered by the lack of respect and condescending commentary from his team member. Rashad should discuss this with management and express his concerns and feelings regarding the inconsideration and demeaning behavior from staff RN. Rashad’s after thoughts of sabotage and insubordination are passive aggressive. This type of communication is indirect and ineffective in problem solving. Aggressive communication can create a hostile work environment, untrusting relationships, and low morale. This type of communication creates a vicious cycle of arrogant dictatorship and indirect antagonism. When there is lack of collaboration and listening, there is little chance of a productive working relationship (Hansten & Jackson, 2009). In case scenario two, Pamela was being nonassertive...
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...recognize the aspects which are impacting the outcome of the Organization. And after this procedure we choose the suppliers as customers of leading wholesalers. Introduction The Reflective Log helps in evaluating the learning experience that took place during the internship period. It presents critical insights on the entire learning experience and presents clear reflection. It helps in analyzing how far the individual has achieved, progressed, developed new skill, or the internship experience has change the learning style and enhanced skills for future growth and professional development. It is strictly about skill evaluation and critical study of skill improvement achieved through work experience (Bridges, 1999). In this assignment the reflective log is specifically included to help in systematic thinking and gap identification which is essential for career growth by improving positive thinking. In this analysis Gibbs Reflective Cycle may be referred as it is helpful in identifying and analyzing the gaps in the skill and also intimates ways to deal with these gaps (Hickson, 2011). The model also helps in apt selection of strategies and identifies ways in which one should proceed or adapt to a particular process of growth so as to enjoy a defined career growth. Figure 1: Gibbs Reflective Cycle Source: (Brookes.ac.uk, 2015)...
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...been used for team development in past 5 years in MPHK? In 2008, the first year to launch the new training or workshop to all departments we selected four to five staff from each department to join the workshop and train up them to be the departmental trainer by classes and courses. But the result and the feedback from the trainer is not too positive and effectively, because the training for them is so new and they can’t always apply in work to build up the team in the department. In 2009, according to last year comments and feedback, we decided to add more activity which the trainers get more involved rather just sit in the class room only listen. We start the outing activities, e.g. hiking, one day campus outing, bowling competition, those activities are included game, seminar and team work to achieves the goals, they can learn the team building skills, decision making skills and leading skills by joining the game, seminar and activities. The result and feedback for this year is much more positive than 2008, because the staff the get more involved and can know more and remember the skills and information be the activities. Some of the trainer start can apply what they learn to the department, but not all. In 2010-2011, base on the comments and feedback in 2009, we still keep on the outing activities two to three times in a year, and selected more fun and interesting place and campus for the trainer which can learn and build up stronger team building skills, also is aim...
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...of content: 1. Article one : Team management skills 2 1.1 strengths 2 1.2 weakness 3 2. Effective teamwork: practical lessons from organizational research (3rd edition) 3 2.1 strength 4 2.2 weakness 4 3. 12 tips for team building 5 3.1 weakness 5 4. Vital factors for building an effective team 6 4.1 strength 6 Implementation and reflection 6 1. Goals 6 2. Time line 6 3. Implementation 7 4. Reflection 7 1. Article one : Team management skills This article ‘ The management skills - The Core Skills Needed to Manage Your Team’, Mindtools (2014) discuss the some of the key points about how to be a team managers and how to do can thrive and succeed. These range from deciding who does what and how to choosing the right people also to developing , motivating people and with the developing. In addition, this article also cover the most common pitfalls to be avoided. The article is related to the my topics ‘team and teamwork’. However, it is not useful source for my topic due to limited relevance, minimal development of ideas. 1.1 strengths This article is relate to the assessment task on team and team work. Mindtools (2014) notes that doing the team work be a good team leader it is very important and give some main point • Importance of delegation • Motivating • Development team • Communication and work with team Under these four points this article...
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...Whether it is at home, in the community, or at work, we are often expected to be a functional part of a performing team. Having a strong team benefits any organization and leads to more successes than failure. In order to understand the competencies needed to build and lead high performance teams, it is helpful to first define a team. Here is a simple but effective description from The Wisdom of Teams (Harvard Business School Press, 1993.) "A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable." The Work Team is defined by many great practitioners in different sense. According to Griffin and Moorhead it is a “small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, common performance goals, and an approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” A group of employees that works semi-autonomously on recurring tasks are called work teams. Work teams are most useful where job content changes frequently and employees with limited skills and a specific set of duties are unable to cope. A group of employees that works semi-autonomously on recurring tasks are called work teams. Work teams are most useful where job content changes frequently and employees with limited skills and a specific set of duties are unable to cope.(its delted since it’s a replica of the above paragraph) Over...
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...University of Phoenix Material Team Building Worksheet Complete the Team Building Worksheet by answering the following questions in 200 to 300 words each. 1. Describe team members’ results on the Discovery Wheel and Develop your multiple intelligences exercises. What similarities and differences exist within the team? 2. What are the advantages of having diversity on a team? What challenges might the team face because of diversity? Advantages: In my opinion having the diversity in a team has many advantages such as, differences in prospective, ideas, and opinions. Instead of looking at the problem with just one prospective other member can suggest different or easier way to solve it, because of his/her knowledge from different race, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, education, background, etc. The best result comes from people with diverse points of view, who can collaborate, share different prospective, and take action. Moreover, diversity increases the creativity and gives birth to new inventions. Furthermore, it improves or increase our ability how to effectively communicate with a person with different cultures or background. (107 words) Challenges: Team will be faced with challenges such as, who is responsible of preforming which task, and/or job duties, etc. Who will decide the responsibility of the task, which they’re capable of performing. When it comes to class assignments or deadlines, there will be disagreements, challenges...
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...Interpersonal Skills - are skills needed to relate or deal well with others. A. Characteristics 1. Social communication and Interaction - A skill in which we need in socializing with others. 2. Active Listening - stick on what the person is saying and not to your own interpretation. 3. Appropriate Tone and Gesture - an important skill that interpreted whether good or bad. 4. Proper Leadership - measures the capability of an individual to handle a certain problems and situations. B. Skill 1. Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skill - are language skills needed when interacting face-to-face in actual situation. 2. Social Skills - include practice of social rules and relations created, communicated and exchange either verbally or non-verbally. 3. Soft Skills - refer to the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits and positive outlook that characterize one's relationship with others. Case Approach: 1. Recognition - " Two Heads are Better than One" 2. Definition - activities when working things such as projects, persons with good interpersonal skills can increase in participation and can cooperate with other members as well. 3. Selection - leaders with good interpersonal skills can contribute and cooperate well with it's co-member in group activities. 4.Cooperation - the co-members would not feel that their leader is bossing them around. 5.Interpretation - a person with good interpersonal...
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...they are going to achieve their goal but the common thing that they want to achieve plays a very important role in taming people to put their differences aside and work together. Rothwell (2008, p.23) argues that it is mandatory for a leader in a business to be very good at people-skills for it is the people working at the business that are the most important people in the business. Without employees in a business then the business does not achieve its goals. They are the people that make things move. There is therefore no escaping people-skills if a business venture is to highly perform. “Management is nothing more than motivating other people”. These are the words of Lee Iacocca – former CEO Chrysler. It is therefore important for a manager to have some basic tips on how to manage people. It is vital that a manager delegates most of the objectives set to achieve so that he or she gets time to manage the team he or she has been given to manage. It also helps the manager to clear his or her mind. It is very important that the person who delegates has a clear head on his or her shoulders. Pearce and Conger (2002, p.41) identify that one of the most important “X factor” is team work. A strong team delivers most of the things put before it. This paper will focus on teamwork and critically analyse it on how it can be used to improve performance. When people come...
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