❌Group Dynamics Flashcards
What are the characteristics of a team?
A collective identity
Interaction
Communication
A shared goal/purpose
What is a team?
A group that has interaction, shared goals, an identity and communication.
What is a group?
Two or more individuals who are sharing in interaction. They have a shared and common goal.
What is meant by a collective identity?
The team can be recognised easily since they are usually wearing the same colour kit.
Often team members will feel a strong affiliation to the team and gain a sense of pride when they wear the team clothing on the way to games.
Why is affiliation important?
This affiliation is important to give motivation and a sense of belonging to the team
What is meant by interaction?
It can be seen as the way they work together to complete a task.
The members should operate in their own role successfully and also be able to link this role with other members of the team.
What’s an example of collective identity?
Players can be identified by their kit
What’s an example of interaction?
In netball, the defence and central players may each mark a specific opponent and also communicate with each other to cover up any opposition attacks.
What is meant by communication?
To help with interaction, the individual players in the team should talk to each other and communicate non-verbally.
What’s an example of communication?
Rugby players use coded calls or hand signals to indicate where the ball is being thrown in a line out.
What is meant by a shared goal or purpose?
The prospect of achieving success is what often keep players in the team and working for each other.
All the players should want to aim for the same goal to have maximum motivation.
What did Tuckman suggest?
When the team forms and as the characteristics being to develop, there are 4 stages of group formation through which the group must pass in order to start working as a unit.
What are the stages of group formation?
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
What is forming?
The group comes together and gets to know each other
What are the characteristics of forming?
Individuals often finding out how they feel about the team.
Members decide if they think they will fit in.
An assessment is made on the strengths of the individual compared to the strengths of others in the group.
Roles and responsibilities are unclear.
They start to work together
What is storming?
The stage of potential conflict when individuals may compete with others to establish position, status or role in the team.
What are the characteristics of storming?
Many teams fail at this stage as there is conflict
Relationships can be strained
Competition for roles and positions
Boundaries are pushed - positions of authority are challenged
Goal is unclear or questioned.
What is norming?
Once conflicts have been resolved, the team begins to settle down and co-operate, wiht the intention of achieving their goals.
What are the characteristics of norming?
Conflicts are resolved Goal is clarified Greater commitment to achieving goals Authority figures are respected Appreciation of team mates strengths Group cohesion develops - both task and social
What is performing?
All the players are now interactive and working together to achieve their goals.
What are the characteristics of performing?
Players interact effectively
Full commitment to achieving team goals
Individual roles and responsibilities are completely understood
Team members support each other
What can effect how long it takes to complete group formation?
Size of the group
Difficulty of task
Experience of the players
Level of the team - higher up takes longer due to unfamiliar tactics and new roles.
Why so group formation so important?
Teams can have the best players and facilities and still under perform. Whereas unlikely team success can occur. This is due to how players work together and how motivated they are
What’s the cohesion key?
The integration of team members and how they work together
