Forming Teams
“All for one, one for all!”
Take notes carefully, there are bonus tasks
for your team in this ppt

Session objectives
• Understand the concept of team
• Realize the importance of team work
• Understand the elements of a
successful team
• Create commitment with the team for
the conference’s activities
• Choose team leader

Splitting into teams

Group vs. team
Group
- Several people with common objectives,
usually together for the satisfaction of affective
needs.
Team
- Teams are people with common objectives
acting together to strive the accomplishment of
specific goals.

Why Teams?
• When several people use their skills
and knowledge together, the result
should be a better project.
• People working together can sustain
the enthusiasm and lend support
needed to complete the project.

Team Cohesion
• Cohesion is the force by which the
molecules of a substance are held
together.
“The way a team plays as a
whole determines its success.
You may have the greatest
bunch of individual stars in
the world, but if they don’t
play together, the club won’t
be worth a dime.” (Babe Ruth)

Seven Key Elements - Cone of Cohesion

Goals and Objectives
• Clarify the team dreams into team goals
• Define the mission and vision statement
• Obtain commitment of the team members to
achieve the goals and objectives
• Ensure task connects to needs and meaningful
outcomes (perceived value)

Right Resources
• Get the “right resources”, not
necessarily the “best”
• Clarify roles and responsibilities
• Individual attitude versus
cohesiveness with the team
• Mutual respect and trust
• Diversity

Communications
• Team meetings
(frequent and
consistent)
• Provide feedback on
performance
• Use of “we and our”
versus “I and me”

Game Plan
• Methodologies, Project Plans, Team
Charter
• Defines how the project will be managed
and executed
• Provides the team with a plan for
achieving the established goals and
objectives
• Establishes continuity/
consistency in practices

Training
• COACH: Training specific to
the organization and the
game plan
• Career path, supported by
competency model and
training
• Encourage employees
to not just be participants,
but also be instructors

Rewards
• Challenging project
• Gaining new experience
• Awards/trophies
• Celebrate the victories
– Team events/outings
– Dinner
– Gifts

Leadership
• Lead by example
• Set the initial team goals
• Accept individual differences in team
members
• Praise team cooperation regardless
of outcome

TEAM COHESION BONUS TASK!
• Describe one concrete action someone in
the team took to achieve one of the 7
team cohesion elements
• 5 points for each action
• Maximum one action per element
• Deadline for delivery of paper with actions
description: 19/may (tomorrow) - 10h30m

Does a team starts a great team
since the begining?
• As most things, teams evolves
• Members gradually learn to deal with
each other and the pressures that they
face.
• The team goes through the fairly
predictable stages

Stages in Team Building
FormingForming
StormingStorming
NormingNorming
PerformingPerforming

Stage 1:
FORMING
• Team Building
– Define team
– Determine
individual roles
– Develop trust
and
communication
– Develop norms
• Task
–Define
problem and
strategy
–Identify
information
needed

Stage 2:
STORMING
During the Storming stage team
members:
– realize that the task is more difficult
than they imagined;
– have fluctuations in attitude about
chances of success;
– may be resistant to the task;
– have poor collaboration.

Negotiating
Conflict
• Separate problem issues from
people issues.
• Clarify the core issues.
• Listen carefully to each person’s
point of view.
• Check understanding by restating
the core issues.

Stage 3Stage 3
NormingNorming
• During this stage members accept:
– their team;
– team rules and procedures;
– their roles in the team; and,
– the individuality of fellow members.
• Team members realize that they are not
going to crash-and-burn and start helping
each other.

Behaviors in the norming stage
• Competitive relationships become more
cooperative.
• There is a willingness to confront issues
and solve problems.
• Teams develop the ability to express
criticism constructively.
• There is a sense of team spirit.

Stage 4
Performing
Team members have:
– gained insight into personal and team
processes;
– a better understanding of each other’s
strengths and weaknesses;
– gained the ability to prevent or work through
group conflict and resolve differences;
– developed a close attachment to
the team.

TEAM BUILDING BONUS TASK
• Describe one concrete behavior someone
had that shows the team was in one of the
4 stages of team building.
• 10 points for each action
• Maximum one action per stage
• Deadline for delivery of paper with actions
description: 19/may (tomorrow) - 10h30m

Benefits of a Cohesive Team
• commitment to the shared vision
• Shared objectives and goals
• Team is able to attain their full potentialpotential
• Higher motivation for the team members
• Better communications throughout the team and
organization
• Increased employee retention
• More successful projects
• Mutual respect and trust
• Continuous feedbacks
• shared leadership

Time to rock
• 1st: Choose team leader
• 2nd: be just with 4 feet and 4
hands in the floor.
• You CAN’T start 2nd task before
delivering the paper with the 1st.
• Deadline: in 10 minutes

Questions?

Thanks!
• Happy team building, remember not
only the leader, but ALL are
responsible for a great team.