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teamwork Flashcards

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What are Tuckman’s 5 stages of team formation?

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Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning.

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1) What happens in the ‘Forming’ stage?

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  • Where team members first meet
    most are positive + polite
  • No clear delegations/responsibilities
  • potential emergence of leadership
  • Can last for a while as colleagues get comfortable with each other.
  • the discovery of boundaries
  • attempt to establish rapport
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2) What happens in the ‘storming’ stage?

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  • Stage where many teams fail
    discovery of boundaries
  • conflict/defensiveness/rivalry
  • People start to push against boundaries established in the ‘Forming’ stage
  • members question authority of leader
  • members question worth of team’s goal.
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3) What happens in the ‘Norming’ stage?

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  • People start to resolve differences
  • Team members know each other
  • may socialise
  • ask for + give constructive feedback
  • More progress towards goal
    -Can alternate between storming and norming for a long time.
  • freedom of communication
  • norms generated
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4) What happens in the ‘Performing’ stage?

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  • Hard work leads to achievement of goal
  • No friction
  • Leader can easily delegate roles
  • If a team member leaves/joins, the team can still work effectively
  • group support
  • mutual acceptance
  • strong but flexible norms
  • facilitates problem-solving
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5) What happens in the ‘Adjourning’ stage?

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  • after the goal is achieved the team go their separate ways to form new teams or go onto something different
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what are Belbin’s 3 divisions of team roles?

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Action oriented:

People oriented:

Thought oriented:

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what is meant by team performance

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Team performance - outcomes of a team’s actions regardless of how the team may have accomplished the task

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what is meant by team effectiveness

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Team effectiveness - how the team performed and how they interacted to acheive the outcome/goal

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define team

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Team - two or more individuals with specified roles interacting adaptively and interdependently towards a common and valued goal

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define teamwork

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Teamwork - a set of integrated thoughts, actions and feelings of each team member that are needed to function as a team resulting in value-added outcomes

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What are Salas’ 3 co-ordinating mechanisms?

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Shared mental models
Close-loop communication
mutual trust

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What is shared mental models?

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An organising knowledge structure of the relationships among the task the team is engaged in and how the team members will interact.

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What is mutual trust?

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The shared belief that team members will perform their roles and protect the interests of their teammates.

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What is closed-loop communication?

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The exchange of information between a sender and a receiver irrespective of the medium.

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According to Sals et al (2005), what is the ‘Big Five’ of teamwork?

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Team leadership
Mutual performance monitoring
Backup behaviour
Adaptability
Team orientation

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in salas 5 five, what comes under team leadership?

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  • define goals
  • organising resources
  • diagnosing issues
  • managing independent individual
  • establishes expectations
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in salas 5 five, what comes under mutual performance monitoring?

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  • keep track of team members’ work whilst attending to their own
  • check things are running smoothly and procedures are followed
  • makes members aware of their performance
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in salas 5 five, what comes under back up behaviour?

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-provides feedback i.e coaching
- the assistance of overload member
- redistribution of workload

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in salas 5 five, what comes under adaptability?

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  • amendment/adjustments of actions due to deviations from the expected plan and unanticipated challenges
  • essential for teams engaged in innovation or teams after experiencing set backs
  • ensure adaptation is focused and not random, it is driven by goals
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explain Belbin’s action orientated team roles

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Action oriented:

shaper - driven, focused, challenges team to improve. Can be insensitive

implementer - practical, reliable, puts ideas into action and is organised. Can be inflexible

completer finisher - high standards, ensures thorough timely completion, polishes the work. usually perfectionist

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explain Belbin’s people orientated team roles

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People oriented:

co-ordinator - acts as a chairperson, delegates work, identifies talent and clarifies goals. May leave themselves minimal work load

team worker - facilitates team cohesion, identifies what needs to be done for the team, encourages cooperation. Can be indecisive

resource investigator - explores outside opportunities, brings ideas back to the team, enthusiastic, may be over optimistic

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explain Belbin’s thought orientated team roles

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Thought oriented:

plant - highly creative, imaginable, present new ideas and approaches, may be forgetful/absent minded

monitor-evaluator - logical, impartial, strategic, analyses the options. May be over critical

specialist - in-depth knowledge, provides specialised skills, may give information overload

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3 coordinating mechanisms of teamwork (from big 5 )

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mutual trust

shared mental models

closed loop communication

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in salas 5 five, what comes under team orientation?

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  • an attitude
  • affinity for working with others
  • willlingness to consider and accept feedback
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what challenges occur within teams?

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  • lack of trust
  • personality clashes
  • poor communication
  • poor organisation
  • role confusion
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how can the performance of a team be assessed?

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  • monitoring software
  • regularly checking in
  • setting targets
  • regular involvement…
28
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assumption of MBTI personality inventory

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you are born with your personality type

there are no good or bad types

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four preferences from MBTI

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extraversion or introversion

sensing or intuition

thinking or feeling

judging or perceiving

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four preferences from MBTI

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extraversion or introversion

sensing or intuition

thinking or feeling

judging or perceiving

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extraversion vs introversion

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where you can get your energy from

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sensing vs intuition

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what sort of information we trust and prefer to use

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thinking vs feeling

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how we come to our decisions

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thinking vs feeling

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how we come to our decisions

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judging vs perceiving

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how we prefer to deal with the world around us

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