Unit 19_ Developing teams in business

• BTEC
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Program for this week

- Verbs

- Grading criteria

- How you will be assessed? (task A and task B)

- Learning outcomes

- Introduction unit 19: Developing teams in business (interactive)

Grading criteria

• Pass:   P1 up to and including P6
• Merit:   pass + M1 up to and including M2
• Distinction:  merit + D1 
  

How you will be assessed

- Task A theoratical written exam

- Task B practical exam: "Campaign presentation 

Learning outcomes this week

You will be able to: 

- discribe different types of teams and the benefits of teams for an organisation (p1)

- Explain how to build cohesive teams that perform well (p2)

- compare the different roles of the different members of a team (m1)

- Compare the effectiveness of different teams (m2)

What is a team?
Give you an example of
where you have worked in a team

A collection of people with a shared purpose and a commitment to working together. Teams are powerful because they have the same purpose and are committed to achieving this purpose.

Formal teams

- Set up by the organisation itself with the purpose of achieving specific objectives.

- Rules and guidlines about how and when a team should meet, and some form of leadership structure.

Informal teams

- A group of individuals, not officially set up by an organisation, that sees the benefit of working together to achive given purpose.

- Usually less highly structured and rule-bound than formal teams. 

Types of teams

Give at least one
example
of a formal team

Give at least one
example
of an informal team

Size of a team

Optimum teamsize is 5 people, why?

Odd number will prevent a deadlock in decision making

the group is small enough to to involve everyone.

Sufficiently large to avoid the mistakes that result from insufficient information, or the power of fixed view of one individual

Temporary and permanent teams

Write individually down (in your own words):

- what a temporary team is and what a permanent team is;

- what is very important in creating a temporary team (2 things)

- Finished? Compare your answers to the person next to you and improve or complete your answers.

Benefits of teams?

Benefits of teams

Look up what the (5) benefits of teams are and write down in your own words.

Finished? Explain what you wrote to the person next to you

Teamwork can make a major contribution to departmental and organisational PRODUCTIVITY and EFFECTIVENESS it can result in INNOVATION (generation of new ideas)

Activity

Discuss homework: Virgin Airlines air crew

Make case study: "The other tool in the box

Activity

Read p. 362 "Implementing changes - Identifying and developing talent"

Implementing changes

Teamwork is an ideal tool for managing changes.

Managing changes

a planned and structured way of introducing changes

change trough team

Leads to a greater sense of ownership.

How do employees react
when a change is forced
with no or little exlpanation?

Identifying and developing teams

Effective teams: people with different skills and ablities to contribute to the team.

Teamwork--> provides opportunity for managers and supervisors to identify talent within their team

                      --> development and trainig opportunities to built on                                that talent (talent management)

Activity

Read p 366 team roles Meredith Belbin

What's your role?

https://www.werkenmetteamrollen.nl/vragenlijsten/De-Korte-Belbin-Teamroltest.asp#.XXgahygzbIV

Forming teams!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jleXGZdIWr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvrv56UVrtA

 

What makes a good teamworker?

Listening skills – communication skills

Able to present and explain

Open to new ideas

Not afraid to bring things to the table

Committed to the team and the objectives

Can give/take criticism

Honest, open, trust

Finaly.... :)

You know what a good working team needs. Now you can form your team.

Formed your team? Chose a case study

Welcome to you all!

Today's program

- check/repeat what you learned yesterday

- "Preferred teamworl style", same outcomes as other test?

- Work as a team.

What do you remeber
about yesterday's lesson?

Preffered teamwork style

- Make activity on page 368 about preffered teamwork style and check if you have the same outcomes as yesterday.

- Still in the right team?

Yes? Let's get started

No? Make sure you get in an other team.

Work as a team!

- Your assigment is to make a summery of chapter 1 and 2.

- Finished? Explain your part to the other teammembers.

- Make one document of your summaries

Activity: Teamworkers

- make activity (page 369) 

- You can use the outcome to work on characteristics you haven't shown in your team/ improve yoy qualities!

Share your experience
Mention two + and
two -

What would you do different next time?