Knowing you - Team Building Training
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Caroline Love & Aileen Goodman
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
The roles taken by team members set the tone for how the team operates and functions. Sometimes, roles become stuck or disabled and the team can become stagnant. The team leader has a crucial part in promoting a healthy team. Roles taken in teams can provide an opportunity for learning and the development of the whole team. The leader's role is important in developing the use of these role skills.
This training activity begins with an introductory exercise to build trust between paired participants. These pairs work together during the observation exercise that follows. One half of the group discuss a team problem and the other half observe their partner to analyse the role they take. Feedback on role behaviour is given in pairs. This is followed by a whole-group discussion on what happens when roles become stuck or disabled in their own work teams, and their role as leader in promoting a healthy team. Small groups consider how role behaviour helps team learning and individuals then make notes about their own teams, before completing a learning log on the application of learning in their own work setting.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with teams to consider the roles taken by team members to achieve tasks.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:45:00 |
| No of Pages: | 24 |
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Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers as part of a programme on Developing Teams: the Leader's Role, or as part of any programme on Team Development. It can also be used for programmes on Leading a Team, Making Meetings Work, Managing Poor Performance, and Team Communications, or for an Organisational Development initiative.
Download the training activity, Knowing you - Team Building Training as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing Teams: The Leader's Role