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Jon Boyes Curriculum and Work-Related Learning Officer

Understand the difference between a group and a team, learn key characteristics of effective teams, grasp models of team development and roles, improve self-awareness as a team player, explore strategies for team-building. Engage in challenges like the bridge-building and floating stick exercises, reflect on improved team performance, consider Honey’s team roles in the NASA moon survival challenge, and receive feedback on leadership and communication. Enhance teamwork through shared identity, goals, structured communication, and recognizing individual roles. Develop essential skills valued by employers.

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Jon Boyes Curriculum and Work-Related Learning Officer

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  1. Team Dynamics Jon Boyes Curriculum and Work-Related Learning Officer

  2. Learning outcomes Explain the difference between a group and a team, and identify the characteristics of an effective team Gain an overview of key models of team development and team roles Develop a greater awareness of their own role as a team-player and value differences in other team members Identify strategies for building effective teams Team Dynamics

  3. Characteristics of teams Shared identity Shared goals and objectives Structured patterns of communication and interaction Consider themselves to be a team Team Dynamics

  4. Team task 1: Bridge building challenge Team Dynamics Construct the longest paper-based bridge using only the paper supplied. Bridge can be supported at two points only.

  5. Tuckman’s team development model Team Dynamics Developmental Sequence in Small groups. (Bruce Tuckman, 1965)

  6. Team task 2: Floating stick challenge Team Dynamics

  7. Floating stick challenge - reflection Team Dynamics What improved team performance? • Focus on team goal vs personal failure • Leadership – who was guiding your team’s efforts? • Communication before and during task • Strategy – how to achieve the goal e.g. • Linking arms, touching fingers • Counting down • Following a ‘lead finger’ • Reflection and refinement

  8. Honey’s team roles Team Dynamics

  9. NASA moon survival challenge Team Dynamics Work on the problem but… Be conscious of your role and that of others whilst you work on it.

  10. Lost at sea challenge Team Dynamics

  11. Survival scoring Team Dynamics

  12. Summary Leadership (and particularly leadership style) Improving team comms, reinforcing identity, clear task focus and clear roles Self awareness [your own role, strengths and weaknesses etc.] and modifying your behaviour accordingly for the well being of the team is key, and highly valued by employers Team Dynamics Key factors for effective teams

  13. Team Dynamics Jon Boyes Curriculum and Work-Related Learning Officer

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