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Experiential Training & Coaching Ltd Designing Winning Teams

Experiential Training & Coaching Ltd Designing Winning Teams

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Experiential Training & Coaching Ltd

Designing Winning Teams

Designing Winning Teams

A delicate balancingoperation:

• Team-players• Technical

contribution• Team Roles

Belbin

Consider this ……

“Those who are organising and composing teams may usefully pay as much attention to a candidate’s ability to be a team-player as to any specialised technical ability they may possess.”

R Meredith Belbin

A Team-player

“Someone who readily finds a fitting part to play in the context of the team and always makes themselves useful”

R Meredith Belbin

What distinguishes a Team-player?

• Timing They can time their interventions

• Flexibility They can vary their role

• Self Restraint They limit their contributions thereby

creating roles for others

• Team goals above self This includes doing some of the jobs

that others deliberately avoid

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Team Composition: First Steps

1 Ask - what needs to be achieved? i.e. Define the objectives, outcomes and scope of the work

2 Determine if a team approach isthe most appropriate work method (vs individual, partnership, group)

3 Decide if the starting point for selection is to be functional roles or team roles

4 Look at both Team Roles, (use TR workstyles or combinations), and Functional Roles, starting with the key positions – not players

Team Composition: sequence in Casting

5. Determine if there are positions and/or players that are a key to success. e.g. the Guru, Ambassador, Relationship Manager

6. Select and compose the rest of the team with the appropriate

positions and players in mind. (casting: right people in right roles)

7. If a balanced team is not possible in selection, consider who will make team role sacrifices.

Composition - A Sequence

1. The Guru2. The Relationship

Manager3. The Ambassador4. The Challenger5. The Harmonist6. The Producer

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Composition – The Guru

Two types of Guru:

1. Designer, brains: typically creative or clever (PL)

2. Technical knowledge or expertise (SP)

Bring desire and their personal stylee.g. anxious, timid, territorial, brilliant, lazy, overactive, bold, mistake ridden,antagonist etc

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Composition – The Relationship Manager

Must be able to relateto and manage the Guru- coax, control, humour,

restrain, assist, drive, etc

Leads and manages both the project and the team

(CO, SH, RI) Belbin

Composition – The Ambassador

Manages the keyexternal relationships

Also uses networks &contacts to connect theteam with the big picturei.e. the wider organisation & marketplace

(RI, CO, TW, IMP)

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Composition – The Challenger

Challenges the Guru on fundamental issuesand puts forward alternative viewpoints

(ME, SH, PL, SP)

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Composition – The Harmonist

Holds the teamtogether.

Contributes proactivelyin the resolution of tension or conflict

(TW, IMP, CO)

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Composition – The Producer / Doer

Contributes strongly tothe core work that needsto be done. e.g. produces

through tasks, responsibilities and processes. Experience & expertise add value in this role.

(IMP, CF, TW, SP, ME)

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Team Composition– Sequencing

Select a small lead or core team

(3-6 people) for the following purposes

1. To produce a RFP for a customer

2. To deliver a project of work for a customer

3. To operate or run a customer contract

Use Team Role Workstyles or Paired Role combinations to

match your selections for each of the 6 sequence roles.

Team Selection – the sequence

1. Guru PL SP

2. Relationship ManagerCO SH RI

3. AmbassadorRI CO

4. ChallengerME SH PL SP

5. HarmonistTW CO IMP RI

6. ProducerIMP CF TW SP ME

Functional Roles Team RolesTeam Role Guidelines:

Team Type: