TEAMS & LEADERSHIP
ADVANTAGES OF TEAMWORK
More productive (synergy – makes something greater than on their own)
Improves members’ quality of working life
Improves problem solving capabilities (more effective)
- Diff perspective of problems
Team > Isolation
DISADVANTAGES OF TEAMWORK
Cultural differences
Unquestioned belief that the team is on the right track (don’t see the
warnings)
Pressure to conform against members of the team who disagree
‘mindguards’ – preventing team from thinking in a different way
Social loafing
- Natural tendency the idea that you know someone would be doing the
work
- Unintentional
- End up nobody putting in their full attention
Free-riding
- Taking advantage of team members
- Intentional
- Not worth working at full capacity (any increase in their contribution will
not be rewarded)
- Difficult to measure an individual’s margin contribution to the team’s
productivity
TUCKMAN’S FIVE STAGE MODEL
Forming
- Get to know each other
- Establish ground rules
- What are our goals?
Storming
- Resist control by team leaders
- Who is in charge? Who does what?
- Create a plan of action (working on team contract)
Norming
- Work together, developing close relationships
- Agree on roles and work as a team
- Maintaining team commitment
Performing
- Work towards getting their jobs done
- Do the job properly, completion of project
