...TO: Leah Hartman FROM: Team 1 SUBJECT: Team Strategy and Roles This memorandum provides you with Team 1 members’ primary and secondary roles. It will provide you with an explanation of why the roles were chosen. The memorandum will inform you of each team members’ tasks for completing the Talent Map/Learning Styles Analysis Power Point Presentation. Lastly it will tell you how the team came to this decision. Primary and Secondary Roles The team has four members and six roles. Each member has one primary role, one secondary role, and then the team collectively took on two roles. Brayden is primary team leader while team lead is Christopher’s secondary role. Gala and Christie alternate primary and secondary role of recorder and editor. Christopher is the team’s primary analyst with Brayden serving as the secondary analyst. All the members of the team contribute to managing and developing the project. How Roles Were Chosen Roles were chosen off of reading the strengths of each member and trying to best fill each one. Brayden’s primary role as team leader ties in with his signature theme of communication because it is needed to lead a team to success. His secondary role of analyst also ties into his communication theme because he will need it to give and receive information from his teammates. Gala’s primary role as recorder ties into her signature themes that fall in the executing category because she is committed to her team and ensuring all of their...
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...Introduction There are many team roles that must be assigned for said team to be successful, and in Ideal Gaming we expect that these role are assigned to the correct members of the many teams within our company. To make this process as simple as possible, this hand out has been created that outlines the skills needed and jobs expected to be performed by team members assigned these roles. List of team roles: * Co-ordinator * Plant * Resource Investigator * Shaper * Team Worker Co-ordinator: The Co-ordinator is the member of the team who thinks up the team’s objectives and goals, and mostly takes on the role of team leader. A Co-ordinator must, be mature, confident, can I identify talent, clarify goals and delegate effectively. Allowable weaknesses are, they may be manipulative and may offload their share of the work. In our company, Co-ordinators are extremely important for us to grow. There will be many different teams in our future company and each of these teams needs a strong figure head to make sure the entire team, no matter how large the team is, is on task and working together. This role is can be linked to the Monitor/Evaluator as both roles involve monitoring the progress of the team to a certain extent, a Co-ordinator would have to see how much is being achieved by all members of the team and change plans according to this. The Monitor/Evaluator however does not need to make planes from what they see, just oversee the team’s progress. ...
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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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...good team can be very encouraging and rewarding; within a good performing team you will see that each member has clear roles and responsibilities in order to accomplish results. They can come together for a short or longer period of time with specific roles and objectives to achieve their goal. In a good working group/team each member comes together to achieve a particular task, they support each other, make decisions and take action. When assembling a team it’s good practice to bring together individuals with different viewpoints, different backgrounds, from different departments with different skills, competencies and knowledge to get the task completed especially if you are working on a specific project. Belbin...
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...Creating Effective Teams An essential process that is required for any business organisation is an effective group development process and managers need to understand how to create effective and productive teams and the roles performed by each of the members. The theory used is the Tuckman’s five stages of group development process that involves forming, storming, and norming, performing and adjourning. Another important aspect of effective teams is the right mix of role categories from Belbin theory, which identifies nine types of people, categorised into three specific skills of action, people and thought orientation roles. This essay will analyse the roles managers undertake to facilitate effective team management that is productive and effective in business organisations. An important aspect of leadership management in any organisation team leaders need to have a good understanding of Tuckmens’ stages of team development to build a cohesive productive workplace and an ability to identify Belbin specific types of people and adapt your approach when dealing with the different types of people. (Manning, 1996, pg. 298-302)(Belbin Team Roles. 2013.) Dr Meredith Belbin (1981) team roles based on the behaviour characteristics and interpersonal skills of the individuals within a team. He determined that there were nine different roles in an effective team who undertook specific tasks. These nine roles classified into three major groups. The three major groups of Belbin are...
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...Clear goals are essential so that all team members comprehend the purpose and vision of the team. It is important to recognize where the team is going. Defined roles is important for the team to understand their job purpose and for leaders to tap into the skills and talents of each team member. Open and clear communication is one of the most important characteristics that an effective team needs. Problems that develop in groups can often be traced back to communication, or lack of communication. Effective decision making methods can help a team make well-organized decisions. Balanced participation can eliminate overload from each team member. This reduces stress and tiredness, and helps weed out lazy team members. Valued diversity helps with thinking, idea creating, problem solving, and experiences to produce an effective team. Managed conflict is necessary for team development. It is important that issues are not unnoticed and circumvented in the team. This helps improve creativity because the team will need to look beyond current assumptions. A positive atmosphere will help any team become effective. Compliant relationships help team members to work together for the good of the team. Participative headship is shared among the team members at various times. As you can see, we need clear goals, defined roles, open and clear communication, effective decision making, balanced participation, valued diversity, managed conflict, positive atmosphere, cooperative relationships, and...
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...Team and Team Processes Shelitta Myers MHA601: Principles of Health Care Administration Dr. Bob 2 July 2012 Team and Team Processes In the following paper I will identify a minimum of three interventions to recommend that address the concerns expressed by Nurse B. The following are the three interventions that I will speak about: conflict management, role conflict, and striving toward the same goal. In closing I will support the recommended interventions with justification/explanation. A group consists of two or more people who interact with each other and share a common purpose (Erofeev, Glazer, & Ivanitskaya, 2009). A team is a type of group (Erofeev, Glazer, & Ivanitskaya, 2009). Teams are an essential part of any organization, especially within the healthcare organization. Each individual on a team plays a vital role in ensuring that all needs are met, task are completed daily and patients are being cared for properly. Teamwork and collaboration between all health professionals results in high quality clinical care, and increased job satisfaction for staff (Begley, 2009). When team members do not agree on the same goal, conflicts will arise. It is important for healthcare managers to control and management all conflicts within the organization. The key to successful conflict management is for both sides to try and solve the problem instead of trying to prove the other side wrong. In the case study presented, Nurse B voices concerns about working...
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...the 21st century many organizations have decided to trust the effectiveness of work teams since as the definition characterizes a work team is a group whose individual efforts result in performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs. Thus, a company has the chance to produce greater output without adding more inputs. This sounds ideal, of course, since all companies in our days are threaten be the economic recession. This definition, however, is referring to effective work teams, and not to just any team. In our case, the construction company named Habos has been assigned a new project dealing with building a new mall in the subsidiaries of Athens. As it is understood, the project is a big one and the success of it can lead to great profit for our company. Due to the vast needs that the projects needs the company had decided to create an entire group that will has under its responsibility the project. Such a mission needs the team to be constructed by members of different departments of the company, from employees with accounting skills, technical skills, manufacturing skills and so on. After the company had decided which employees will be members of the new project, the manager after a while had noticed some level of resistance in commitment to the team on behalf of the members. Thus the manager needs to manage the obstacles that have been observed so that the work team will become an efficient one and success to be the outcome of it. In order to understand...
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...High Performance Teams Waseem AL Rousan J3 M2 Assessment1 30675904 Waseem Al Rousan High Performance Teams Content J3 M2 Assessment1 30675904 Waseem Al Rousan Contents Introduction: ................................................................................................................................................. 2 What is a group ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Team Development Stages: Group Formation Theory (Tuckman’s 4/5 Stage Model) ................................. 3 Group performance theories ........................................................................................................................ 3 The T7 Model of Team Effectiveness ........................................................................................................ 3 Rubin, Plovnick, and Fry Model—The GRPI Model of Team Effectiveness .............................................. 4 Katzenbach and Smith Model—Focusing on Team Basics........................................................................ 6 High performing team case study/Umniah’s IT Infrastructure team ........................................................... 6 Team Performance Measurement and Management .............................................................................. 8 Team Behaviors and Values ...........................................................................
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...leadership role in my team, Leaders of the Unknown, has been an evolving role to say the least. At times, it has appeared that there were five different leaders at the same time and at others, it has seemed like there was one dominating personality. Our team has had a few setbacks when it comes to shared leadership, but there are several strategies for fixing this problem. Throughout this whole semester I have been able to reflect on my own personal leadership abilities and mentally make adjustments to become a more effective leader. Leadership in Leaders of the Unknown has been evident mostly through heading up different aspects of the ongoing project for our real world team. Most members have taken it upon themselves to guide the team through on area of this project. This leadership is most often volunteered by that member, but occasionally a role has had to be assigned in order to allow for more reserved members to have a chance to lead the team. An example of this has been with Nicole. Nicole is a highly respected member of our group, but she tends to be more of a support member. So, to allow her to have that leadership role, we as a team assigned her to lead up our outline for out group paper. The decision is proving to be a very rewarding one because Nicole is very good at getting the most out of each person. Her interpersonal skills allow her to tie the team together in a way that the other members, including myself, have not been able to accomplish. All team members...
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...4.2. Group Theories 4 4.3. Team Theories 9 4.4. Conclusion 11 5. Part B 12 5.1. Introduction 12 5.2. Questionnaire 12 5.3. Questionnaire Scores 14 5.4. Tuckman Model: Johannesburg Central Team Score 15 6. Part C 15 6.1. Introduction 15 6.2. Team demographics 15 6.3. Team Effectiveness 16 7. Bibliography 21 FIGURES Figure 1: Approximation of the Punctuated Equilibrium Model. Figure 2: Asch Comparison Cards. Figure 3: Tuckman Model: Johannesburg Central Team Score TABLES Table 1: Relationship between Group Cohesiveness and Agreement with Organizational Goals. Table 2: Mature Work Group or Team Questionnaire. Table 3: Individual Team Member and Team Scores. 1. Executive Summary Group work and team work have especially become indispensible to the achievement of success in the world. Group work and team work have been used since the beginning of humanity. So what has changed? Competitiveness has forced a substantially, reduced cycle time requirement to turnaround capabilities and products in a much shorter period of time. An individual’s effort to achieve the required cycle time would not meet requirements on a number of levels: the requirement for various knowledge and skills, enhanced decision making by leveraging the strengths of diversity and assurance that the required quality would be met. However, group and team work has challenges. The strengths of a team can, if not managed carefully, lead to the failure of the team. The speed with which products...
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...Team Dynamics Teams is a group of two or more people who exist to fulfill a purpose and are interdependent or interact and influence each other, mutually accountable for achieving common goals, and perceive themselves as a social entity. Teams are groups, but groups are not the same as teams. Teams have task interdependence and some groups are just people gathered together. One example of a team is orchestra playing together at practice. They each have a specific role or musical piece they play, but the common task is getting the final musical piece mastered. Thus, who makes up teams and what type of teams are there. Many variations of teams exist such as, departmental teams, skunk works, which are small loosely structured corporate research and development units, or subsidiary formed to foster innovation. Some other types of teams include production/ service/ leadership teams, task force (project) teams, self-directed teams, virtual teams, advisory teams, and communities of practice. Some examples would include wound care teams in hospitals or unit practice counsels, infection control or any group of two people or more working toward the same task. Now, consider the members of the team. Individual members of a club, business, management department, or any other organization can come together to form a team. Now, consider the importance of teams and why it is important to rely on teams in the workforce. Teams provide valuable service for employers, employees, and...
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...Unit 510 Effective team performance can be identified by a few simple notions, what first comes to mind when we think about a team is that it is made up of several different people all working towards a common goal, I identify this as without it no matter how good the each member of the team was, it would lead to chaos with no end result. We follow on from this as the team must have a structure whereas things can be measured so people know how to meet the goal they are heading towards. The staff that make up the team must be able to do the job they have been assigned to achieve, and sister to this they must be more than a staff member they must be colleagues, I say this because they must be equally committed and such create an air of sharing and collaboration so they can all utilize each person's different skills and abilities. Hence this leads on to the support network that is created not just by the effective teamwork but also externally too, by the training and supervision they may receive, the recognition of doing a good job etc. The leader will have to manage the team, make sure that everyone is working towards the same goal by monitoring and acting to support all the notions above. UNIT 510 Element 1 The staff team and staff members roles change as the team itself develops due to changes in policy, staff leaving/recruitment or changing demands of service users. However the basic roll a staff member plays within the team will not alter greatly. As identified...
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...Introduction The overall team process of MGI seems dysfunctional and ineffective; members forming the MGI team brought a variety of skills set resulting from the multi-talented compositions, diversity in ethnic backgrounds, close personal relationships and a shared desire for the product. The main task for the team was to launch a product at the Harvard Business School (HBS) business plan contest, however, the team has failed in delivering such product for the lack of group roles, defining objectives and facilitating communication among themselves. The MGI lacked a manager to lead the group assignments and making sure every task is performed for the best interest of the group; which is completing the task in the given time frame. There was no structure and clear role assignment for members, this led to having more and more conflict among team members that affected the communication process as well as the outcome of the group. Not only ineffective communication was created in such team forming setting, but also a misunderstood perception for each member’s role was generated. One given example, when Dav joined the group, Henry and Dana did not know the intentions for the team founders as to themselves, as they had no idea what Dav’s role was in the team, which affected the team work as a whole. Also, as Henry thought they were very clear in respect to each member’s role that’s been placed initially, each member played a facilitator, moderator, task manager, and strategic thinker...
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...Team Simulation For the benefit of explaining personal decisions made while participating in a simulation, the author has chosen to write some portions of this paper in first person. The simulation provided participants an opportunity to apply tools and information to a simulated environment. In the simulated environment the goals for participant were to “identify team member roles and responsibilities, identify the qualities of an effective group leader, and explain methods of managing difficult group members” (University of Phoenix, 2010, p.1). The simulation involved assembling a team, managing team conflict, decision-making, and evaluating decisions. The purpose of the team in the simulation was “to discover the drug trafficking organizations responsible for the flow of drugs across the US Mexico border” (University of Phoenix, 2010, p. 2). Identify Team Member Roles and Responsibilities In the first part of the simulation participants, whose role in the simulation was Special Agent in Charge, were required to create a task force. The participant was presented with profiles of the candidates. The four positions, which the special agent needed to assign, were Lead Agent, Assistant Lead Agent, Intelligence Agent, and Field Specialist. As a participant I selected Sam to fill the position of Lead Agent. Sam was selected because his twelve year career experience with a concentration in drug regulation, ability to speak Spanish and strong work ethic. For the position...
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