Growing up and team/life
Featured in the Developing Teams: The Leader's Role training manual
By Aileen Goodman & Caroline Love
Category: Team Building
Credit price: 4 download credits (Single user)
Teams go through recognisable stages of development, not necessarily in a linear fashion; a new team is formed with each new arrival or departure. A team's ability to know the stages and to recognise which stage they are at will help positive growth and development through the stages. Talk of work/life balance for individuals is common; there is less talk of a team's team/life balance. To what extent is the team so task focused that any team life outside task completion is impossible, and to what extent is such a situation sustainable?
The activity starts with a lively exercise where people identify the key characteristics of the stages of human development and highlight those that are relevant to the stages of team development. Following your introduction to the purpose of the activity, participants individually plot the stages of their own team's development over the past nine months. The activity continues with the development of a continuum that describes the extremes of team/life balance; participants then move on to work in small groups to develop questions that they can use, individually or with their team, to assess their team's team/life balance. These questions are shared in the whole group; the completion of a learning log and consideration of how to use the resources with teams and individuals complete the activity.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with team leaders to help them to assess their team/life balance.
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 4 |
| Max Group Size: | 20 |
| Typical Duration: | 01:40:00 |
| No of Pages: | 23 |
Resources: View standard resources for Fenman training activities
Additional resources: 1 green and 1 blue marker pen for each pair of participants; Postcard size Post-itŪ Notes.
Purpose: This training activity is intended for use by trainers with team leaders to enable them to assess their own team's developmental stage and to develop criteria for assessing its team/life balance. Use this activity as part of a programme on Developing Teams: The Leader's Role. You can also use it on any programme on Leading a Team, Managing for the First Time, an Organisational Development programme, Team Communications, or Team Development.
Download the training activity, Growing up and team/life as featured in the Fenman training manual; Developing Teams: The Leader's Role