Group dynamics and team working
Duration: one day
'Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity' - Vince Lombardi
Aims and learning outcomes
- Identify features of a team
- Reflect on the performance of teams or groups of which you have been a member and identify the positive actions and processes that contribute to good team performance
- Appreciate the different stages of group development and spot these in action
- Identify negative group processes and ways of reducing their likelihood.
- Be able to follow some key principles for the running of meetings
- Be aware of the role you play in a team and the contribution of different roles to a group
Course content
- What is a team?
- Features of a successful team
- Effective design and delivery of a team task
- Group development and change models
- Monitoring meetings
- Preferred team roles
- Belbin's nine team roles
- Action plan on team working
Course features
Brainstorming, questionnaires, discussion, role play, scenarios and action plan.
