Team Building

1. Team Building APAMSA Leadership Development Module

2. Team Building Relations-Oriented Behaviors • Identify common interests and team values to unify team members • Incorporate symbols, ceremonies, and rituals to develop social cohesiveness Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

3. Relations-Oriented Behaviors Leadership Challenge (23) • Team Building • Cohesiveness and cooperation are two common goals of team building • Describe your approach to Team Building and briefly explain how your methods increased team cohesiveness, mutual cooperation, and team identification

4. Team Building Guidelines For Team Building • Common interests and values • Ceremonies and rituals • Symbols • Social interaction • Publicize activities • Process analysis • Alignment sessions • Incentives for cooperation Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 71-72)

5. Team Building Common Interests & Values • Group identity is dependent upon shared goals and strategies to attain them • Appeal to team members for their cooperation by emphasizing mutual interests and values Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

6. Team Building Ceremonies & Rituals • Make group identity special with ceremonies and rituals that emphasize team values • Initiation rituals for new members, and celebration rituals for departing members • Ceremonies can celebrate special achievements or anniversaries Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

7. Team Building Symbols • Create a symbol for group identity • Symbols can be a team name, color, slogan, logo, insignia, or emblem • Display symbols on business letters, flyers, banners, clothing Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

8. Team Building Social Interaction • Build cohesiveness among team members with pleasant social interaction • Host periodic social activities like dinners, lunches, picnics, barbeques • Go on team outings to sports events or concerts, go camping or hiking Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

9. Team Building Publicize Activities • Tell people about group plans, activities, and achievements • Explain the importance of these plans, activities and achievements relative to team objectives • Communicate a sense of excitement, fun and zest in all that is being done Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

10. Team Building Process Analysis • Hold frank discussion of interpersonal relationships and group interactions • Consider how people are communicating, working together, making decisions, and resolving conflicts • Discuss strengths in work relations and ways to improve any weak points Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

11. Team Building Alignment Sessions • Negative stereotypes are common with diverse team members with varied opinions • Increase mutual understanding by holding alignment sessions • Sessions involve each member answering several personal career questions Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

12. Team Building Alignment Sessions • Questions may ask about your values, concerns, and personal objectives • How do you want to be remembered? • What is most often misunderstood about you? • What type of work is most satisfying? • What type of work is most frustrating? • How would you like to change your role? Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

13. Team Building Alignment Sessions • Each person will be given time to answer these questions to help others understand them and be appreciated Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

14. Team Building Incentives For Participation • Provide incentives for mutual cooperation • Incentives that reward group performance encourage cooperation • Whereas incentives that reward individual performance encourage competition • Offer rewards for high team performance to value team service Source: G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations (New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338)

15. Relations-Oriented Behaviors Summary • Team Building • Cohesiveness and cooperation are two common goals of team building • Identify common interests and team values to unify team members • Utilize the Guidelines for Team Building to increase cohesiveness, mutual cooperation, and team identification

16. Relations-Oriented Behaviors Next Topic… • Encouraging Participation • Our next module discusses guidelines for assessing the need for participation and encouraging others to participate

17. Relations-Oriented Behaviors Sources • G. Yukl, Leadership In Organizations, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, p. 334-338 • Free Management Library • www.managementhelp.org/ldrship/ldrship.htm