Week 3 Flashcards

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What is Adair (1986) quote on a team

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  • A small group of people, with complementary skills, work together actively to achieve a common purpose for which they hold themselves collectively accountable (Adair 1986)
  • Leadership
  • Sharing
  • Roles
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What are the Non-Technical skills in team work

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  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Situation Awareness
  • Decision Making
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3
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Define leadership

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  • motivates, share info, prioritises, balance of authority and assertiveness
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Define Communication

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  • encourages input from all, 2 way process, team needs to remain objective
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5
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Define Situational awareness

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  • notice relevant info, understands team roles, consider implications of situation and communicates
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Define Decision making

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  • whole team involved, communicates reasons, reviews and considers implications for team
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7
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Name some Team Theories

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  • Belbin’s Team roles
  • Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
  • Adair Leadership
  • Myers-Briggs- Type Indicator
  • McGregor X and Y
  • Tuckman Group development
  • Jung Colour
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8
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Brief explaination of Belbins Theory

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  • Thining, Action, People circles
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9
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Brief explaination of Myers Briggs

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  • Psycometric questionnaire
  • How people perceive the world
  • Extrovert, Introvert, Sensation, Intuition, Thinking
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10
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Brief explaination of the Tuckmann Model

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  • How teams are formed
  • Forming
    Team acquaints and establish ground rules
  • Storming
    Members start to communicate their feelings but still themselves as individuals
  • Norming
    People feel part of the team and realise that they can acheive work if they accept each others view point
  • Performing
    The team works in aopen and trusting atmosphere but hierachy is of little importance
  • Adjourning
    The team conducts an assessment of the year and implements a plan for transitioning roles
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Brief discription of Jungs Colour

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  • Four quadrants of colour
  • cool blue
  • Fiery Red
  • Sunshine yellow
  • Earth green
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12
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Brief discription of Adair

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  • Task needs
    Setting objectives, planning tasks, setting performance standards
  • Individual needs
    Coaching, counsilling, developing, motivating
  • Group needs
    Communication, Team building, motivation, discipline
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13
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Brief explanation of Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

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  • Triangle of needs
  • Self actualisation
  • Esteem needs
  • Belongingness and love needs
  • Safety needs
  • Physiological needs
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14
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What are the 13 key points of the Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

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SELF FULFILLMENT NEEDS
- Self actualisation
Achieving ones potential, including creative activities

PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS
- Esteem Needs
prestige and feeling of accomplishment

  • Belongingness and love needs
    Intimate relationship, friends

BASIC NEEDS
-Safety needs
Security, Safety

  • Physiological Needs
    Food, water, warmth, rest
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15
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Brief discription of McGregor (1960) X and Y

Theory X

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  • Theory X
  • More traditional, top down management
  • Dislike work, try to avoid….need direct supervision
  • Need coercement and direction to meet objectives
  • Threat of punishment must exist within an organisation
  • Can mean staff avoid responsibility
  • Theory X assumes that people are lack ambition and their prime driving force is the desire for security
  • Learnt from working environment
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16
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Brief discription of McGregor Theory X and Y

Theory Y

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  • Theory Y
  • Staff are ambitious, keen to accept greater responsibility and exercise both self-control and direction.
  • More committed, work towards objective (in the right conditions)
  • Employees will exercise their imagination and creativity in their jobs if given the chance and this will give an opportunity for greater productivity.
  • Several assumptions; accept and seek more responsibility
17
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How does this apply to Paramedic Practise

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  • More practical, leadership can be taught
  • Team task as 1 person can’t achieve it alone
  • If team needs (think Maslow) not met – task will suffer = dissatisfaction
  • If individual needs not met, team will suffer = task failure