4 Steps You Can Use To Develop Your Team Sean Fletcher Principal Consultant

Agenda

• Introduction

• The Work of Teams

• The Cycle of Team Development

• Forming Your Team

• Storming Your Team

• Norming Your a Team

• Performing Your Team

• What To Do Next?

Introduction

Here is a way you can make your workplace more rewarding by implementing Bruce Tuckman's

4 phases of high performance teams

Forming Storming

NormingPerforming

Review

The Cycle of Team Development

Team Leader Appointed

Issues/Conflicts Resolved

Targets & Actions Set

Outcomes Celebrated

The Work of Teams

"Teams provide a clear advantage over the work of individuals"

Sean Fletcher

"When employees feel as if they are part of a

unit, relevant outcomes are improved"

Jennifer Ward (The Importance of Teamwork in Nursing)

Turning of the soil for the Morawa Town Revitalisation Project: Sean Fletcher, Shane Love MLA, Trevor Price MWDC, Daniel Hazebroek DRD

Forming

Forming Your Team

Meet - Team Leader Explains

Objective

Agree on

Charter

Develop Communication

Plan

Evaluate Strengths

& Weaknesses Together

Set Goals

& Action Plan

Allocate Roles

Review

Storming

Storming Your Team

Deal With Disagreements

Promote Charter

Refine Action Plan

Review Strengths

& Weaknesses Together

Assess Goals

Test Roles/Make Changes

Review

Norming

Norming Your Team

Promote Consistency in

Tackling of Goals

Provide Ongoing Progress Reports

Close Out Goals

Mitigate Weaknesses

(Through Training & Development)

Deal With Risks

Lock in Priorities

Review

Performing

Performing Your Team

Continue to Close Out Goals

Provide Ongoing Progress Reports

Celebrate Achievements

Continue Team Members

Development

Look at What's Next

Team Leader Steps Back

Review

What To Do Next?

This is dependent of the role of the team:

Work Team: Keep it going

Project Team: Lobby for other projects

The Author

• Sean Fletcher is the Principal Consultant at Strategic Teams based in Perth, Western Australia

• He is also a training consultant with WALGA and a former local government CEO

• Sean holds qualifications in management, and regional development. He is also a member of the LGMA.

• Visit us at: Strategic Teams