Team Building Activity and Report
Introduction: We are part of Sunset Aged Care Facility for the past five years with Niranjan working as Incharge Nurse, Bhumika as Healthcare Coordinator, Binsha as Diversional Therapist, Bhavani as Neurologist and Tandeep as Human Resource Manager. We provide assisted living and care to the elderly depending on their needs varying from basic assistance with meals, laundry and cleaning to residential hospital level care. The prime objective of our aged care facility is to provide a purpose built environment in order to enhance the quality and standard of life for its residents.
(http://www.metlifecare.co.nz/living-at-metlifecare/assisted-living)
Scenario: In the recent times, there was an increase
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This can be achieved if all the team members work in collaboration with each other towards a common goal. Team formation is a tedious task and always people with diverse thinking aspects should be included in a team so as to broaden the thinking horizon of the team as a whole” (Bruce Tuckman, 1965, cited by Gerald R. Ledlow & M. Nicholas Coppola, 2013, p. 163). We made use of Tuckman’s team building model which provides stepwise explanation of how a team should be formed to perform a task perfectly.
“Following are the five steps of team formation using this model:
• Forming: In this step, our management team gave us a chance to organise staff into teams of 4-5 members so that we will jointly develop some strategies to make the ‘Team Building Day’ a real success. Hence they followed the ‘chit system’ and wrote the name of all the staff members in the chit and mixed it randomly in a bowl by writing Blue, Red, Green, Orange, Yellow and White on chits. The staff members who picked up chits with Blue written on it became part of Blue team. In the same way, other teams were also decided. Hence teams were formed randomly giving an opportunity to staff working in one department to develop a rapport with staff of other department. Being stranger to each other was a little bit difficult to amalgamate with each other at the
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2. Match Stick Puzzle: This group activity is effective for Kinesthetic, Visual and Auditory learners. Basically 3 sub activities will be conducted here making use of match stick.
Instructions: Here we will construct the shape of a mouse using match stick and will ask the team members to move few match sticks and make mouse look in opposite direction.
Rationale: This activity will make each team to acquire effectiveness by adopting logical thinking and efficient team collaboration and communication. A team which can support ideas of team members and share their own with them will effectively complete the task
(http://www.youtube.com/BeingAKidAgain, retrieved on Oct.28, 2013).
3. Riddles Solving: This activity is effective for enabling the Kinesthetic and Linguistic learners to learn to work efficiently in a team by using their logics and problem solving technique.
Instructions: It is a 4-5 minute game and each group will be given a piece of paper on which riddles will be written. The team members need to decode the riddle by using logical
My team consists of four other people besides myself, Lauren Chojnaki, Alexa-Louise Patnode, and Jacobe Loewen, and Ryan Tyriver. Together, we are tasked with the mission to complete a stakeholder analysis regarding a specific organization and their structure. For this project to be completed successfully, it is important that all team members are able to cooperate with one another and are able to use their different strengths to create the best end product.
Working in teams can be well-defined as when a group of people are brought together for the aim of a mutual objective. Each member in a group puts their abilities to accomplish the goals. Groups make exertion to complete the project, but not necessarily the project is achieved every time. Within a group, every member participates in a position to accomplish the group’s intentions. These positions add new and significant dimensions to physics of group colleagues. Bruce Tuckman’s team development theory provides a way to challenge the duties of assembling a squad through the achievement of an assignment. On the whole, each group associate played a vital responsibility to complete the project at the end of Client-Focused Business Solutions.
Based on the 1993, research of Meredith Belbin, a successful team consists of nine roles. The first of these roles is the coordinator. The coordinator is one that has a clear view of the teams’ objective. This person is usually self-disciplined and confident. Secondly, the shaper. This individual is full of drive, makes things happen, and loves a challenge. Third, the planter. The planter is the individual who has original ideas and their strength is to provide the team with new insights and possibilities for change. Fourth, the resource investigator. This individual has the strongest contacts and networks. They are enthusiastic and brings information from the outside. Fifth, the implementer. Implementers are well organized and effective in turning ideas into tasks. Sixth, the team worker. This person is aware of all the teams’ needs and concerns. Team workers are supportive, sensitive, and promotes harmony to reduce conflict. Seventh, the specialist. The specialist provides specialist skills and knowledge but does not always see the whole picture. Eighth, the monitor evaluator. The evaluators are good at seeing all options from every angle. They have a strategic perspective and can judge situations accurately. Last is the completer/finisher. The completer/finisher is the individual that drives the deadlines and makes sure they are achieved. (Teamwork,
The formation of the team is the first stage of the model. A person’s behavior is driven by the desire for acceptance, and to avoid conflict or controversy with other people (Judge & Bono, 2000). Grave feelings and issues are avoided, with people focusing on keeping themselves occupied with routines such as duty allocations, team organization and the venues of the meetings during this period. At this stage, individuals gather impressions and information about each other, and the aims of the group and how to advance towards them. This stage is comfortable, but the avoidance of conflict translates to little being done. The team learns about opportunities and challenges, reaches a consensus on goals and starts to handle the task. The team may be motivated, but usually, they are ...
I will be splitting the students up into three equal groups. Each team will be given 10 note card. On one side of the notecard (the plane side), students will write down one of their vocabulary words. On the revered sided, the students will write the meaning of the vocabulary word. Once the students have completed, their group will form 2 circle. One circle will be formed inside another. The students in the inner circle will have the two notecards. The students on the outside will have zero. The students in the inside circle will read the word to the students across from them. Using the wait time strategy, they will wait for the student to provide them with the answer. If the answer is correct, the students will read the second. If they get that one write as well the student will wait for me to tell them to rotate to their next peer. If the student gets it incorrect, they must switch places with the students in the inner circle. This process will continue until the activity is complete.
The complexity of teamwork is more than what Merriam-Webster defines teamwork as “the work done by people who work together to do something”. Teamwork involves good practices and strategies utilized in a cohesive manner to get to a common goal. Therefore a clear definition of a team must first be established in order to further understand the complexity of the teamwork process. A team is a collection of two or more people with either similar or different disciplines dedicated to the pursuit of a specific goal (Gilbert, 2004). Hence, the determinant in the level of participation from team members for a functioning team is a joint commitment (Gilbert, 2004).
According to our text, Communicating at Work, an effective team has eight characteristics. These characteristics are: clear and inspiring shared goals; a results driven structure; competent team members; unified commitment; collaborative climate; standards of excellence; external support and recognition; and principled leadership. A group goes through four stages in becoming an effective team; forming, storming, norming, and performing (Adler and Elmhorst, 240, 251). Most of the characteristics of an effective team are brought to the team by one or more members, others are formed during the development process.
Lencioni’s theory fits best within the first two stages of Tuckman’s team development theory, the forming and storming phases where trust is established, goals are created, and processes are outlined. The other phases of Tuckman’s theory occur as many of these dysfunctions are worked out and not overshadowing the team dynamic any longer. In each stage of team development shows detectable moods and behaviors. The four stages are a supportive outline for identifying a team 's behavioral patterns. Looking at each stage can help us understand the development and what is possibly needed to make the team work.
Seven tasks must be included in consideration of team dynamics and structure. The first of which is defining the goal, mission or function of a specific team. The team must know what it is being asked to accomplish. The second area of consideration is assessing what skills, abilities, knowledge or potential to acquire such would be needed amongst selected team members. Identification of potential team members should include an assessment of the skills, knowledge and abilities or the potential to acquire such so that ultimately the team has the building blocks with which to succeed in its mission, goal or function. This assessment must include an understanding of realistic potential contributions by potential team members with the included assessment of whether or not the acquisition of skills and knowledge can be made available through research and analysis.
During the mid 1960 s Dr. Bruce Tuckman published his theory on four stages of team development known as the Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing model. Throughout a teams developing stages, Dr Bruce observed that a team develops through four stages and during each stage of team development various types of demands are place upon a group of individuals. As the demands change so does their behaviour when in fact all they are trying to do is work together successfully by forming a team which has a specific purpose.
Skills and knowledge possessed by every member is also important for a team to become high performance. Although it is among the most important factors, however, it must be coupled with a good working relationship with every team member and good collaboration with every team member. The members who possess the good skills and wide knowledge will be a useful resource to the team if that team member can share their strengths with the other team members and vice versa. It is usually misconstrued that having skillful and intelligent team members is already enough to make a team work right. This kind of thinking is the reason why most teams, despite all of those competent members they have, fail to achieve their goals. A team should establish one common goal, not to think that way and develop a good working relationship with each member. (retrieved from: http://www.strictlysuccess.com, August 18, 2005) This can be done by self awareness exercises, like the DISC assessment and other assessments or any other kind of self awareness exercises regarding communication style differences. Then these factors and important pieces of information should be taken into full consideration before the actual project is begun. These exercise or assessments can be great ice breakers and mark the difference between a group of individuals merely assigned to a team, as opposed to functioning as...
The teamwork is usually defined as the process of working together in a group to achieve a common goal. These days working in groups is inevitable. Whether it is a school assignment or working in a clinical settings, we have to work in groups to accomplish a task. We cannot expect to work in isolation all the times. (Stonehouse, 2011)
The application of collaborative learning strategies is a process in which two or more students work together. Collaborative strategies will be used in planning, translating and reviewing the education process to form student learning through group-oriented activities. This source will also be useful in lesson planning to help explain how collaborative learning strategies in the classroom will help students in the learning process improve by interaction; how positive interdependence of collaborative learning leads to common responsibility; how collaborative learning builds students’ self-esteem, and confidence in students. This application recommends that collaborative learning strategies can be implemented with Jig-saw technique as well as in learning technology which can be accessible to all participants working in cooperative groups (Iqbal, Kousar, and Ajmal, 2011).
Working in teams provides an opportunity for individuals to come together and establish a rapport towards others within a group. Teamwork is classified as people with different strengths and skills who work together to achieve a common goal. When a team works well, specific objectives are fulfilled and satisfied. Teamwork plays a crucial role in implementing and fulfilling a common goal in a team project. Each member plays a role and takes on different responsibilities combined together. In different stages of teamwork, conflicts and arguments may occur for as members have different standpoints which need to be harmonized within the team. The key to having an effective teamwork is to explore each member's unique abilities to motivate them.
In order for teamwork to be successful in the workplace it involves building a relationship and working with other people. The ability to work as part of a team is one of the most important skills in today’s job market. Working cooperatively and contributing to groups with ideas, and suggestions benefits everyone. A key to team effectiveness