Teamwork Workshop

(Workshop 3)Date: 4 July 2011Office of Service-Learning,

Lingnan University

Activity Time!

Warm up game: ‘Trust Fall’ All people will walk around the room

randomly Anyone who clap hands Fall The others need to support him/her

immediately

A joint action by a group of people, in which each person subordinates his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group

Members collaborate together and use their talent and experience to contribute to the success of the team's objectives

Webster's New World Dictionary

What is teamwork?

Teams do not become effective overnight. Team building is a process that requires due attention and care

Members work interdependently and work towards both personal and team goals, and they understand these goals are accomplished best by mutual support

What is teamwork?

Sit with your teammate Choose a color to represent each of your

teammates and yourself (3 Mins) Discussion (15 Mins)Go around your group, one

teammate at a time. Talk about which colors people chose for that teammate and why

Do you understand your teammates?

Belbin's Team Roles

Action Oriented Roles

Shaper Challenges the team to improve.

Implementer Puts ideas into action.

Completer Finisher Ensures thorough, timely completion.

People Oriented Roles

Coordinator Acts as a chairperson.

Team Worker Encourages cooperation.

Resource Investigator

Explores outside opportunities.

Thought Oriented Roles

Plant Presents new ideas and approaches.

Monitor-Evaluator Analyzes the options.

Specialist Provides specialized skills

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_83.htm

Do you understand the role?

Discussion Time! (10 Mins)Through observation of the individual

members of your team: Compare each person's strengths and weakness

with tBelbin's descriptions of team roles Note the role that most accurately describes each

person. Which team roles are missing from your team? From this, ask yourself which strengths are likely

to be missing from the team overall?

Empowering Your Team

Self-understanding

Self-confidence

Commitment

Trust

Appreciation

Time Management

Delegation

HonestLeadership

Team Belief

Team Goal: SMART Motivation

Involvement

Team Action

Reflection(Self and team)

Self Layer Team layer Skills and Attitude

Communication

Honest Conversations!We can start to admit more of the truth to ourselves

to confront more of our difficulties and to be honest about our feelings

Activity Time

In paying attention to someone in a calm, accepting way, you teach that person to pay attention to themselves in just that way. In caring for others, you teach them to care for themselves and you help them to feel more like caring about others. The more you have faced and accepted your own feelings, the more you can be a supportive witness for another person who is struggling to face and accept his or her feelings. In forgiving people for being human and making mistakes and having limits, you teach people to forgive themselves and start over, and you help them to have a more forgiving attitude toward others. By having conversations that include the honest sharing and recognition of feelings, and the exploration of alternative possibilities of action, you help a person to see that, by gradual degrees, they can start to have more honest and fruitful conversations with the important people in their lives.

Leader and Service-Learning: Giving Culture in a team

1. Give people a sense of importance 2. Give feedback, not criticism 3. Give people visibility 4. Give anonymously5. Know when to forgive6. Give encouragement7. Give opportunity8. Share your knowledge and experience 9. Give moral support

Try create this giving culture in this Summer Institute!

I want to share more about…. Who am I? What did I do in the last

few weeks? What is/are my weaknesses? What I can contribute more? What is my feelings to my group

mates? What I am looking forwards to?

Resources http://www.newconversations.net/

honesty_communication_and_counseling.htm http://www.freshtracks.co.uk/free-trust-team-games.htm http://managementhelp.org/groups/team-building.htm http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_83.htm