Team Building and Leadership

Why work in teams?

To survive and thrive in large communities like the sixth form

To achieve common goals

To win competitions

To prepare you for society and workTo learn about yourself

and other people

Learn to deal with emotions and build real confidence

“The most critical aspect of achieving a goal is not whether we achieved it, but rather the knowledge we gained during the process.”

Glover and Midura

“Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.”

Vince Lombardi

“You can’t do it alone. Be a team player, not an individualist, and respect your teammates. Anything you do, you’ll have to do as a team.

Many records have been made, but only because of the help of one’s team-mates”

Charley Taylor, former NFL wide receiver.

The main roles within a team

• Encourager• Mediator• Tension Releaser• Feeling Expresser• Silent observer /

worker

• Blocker• Aggressor• Deserter• Clown• Special-interest

pleader

Constructive Destructive

?Team player?

Leader?Self-centered?

destructive?

Think of someone who fits this…Was…...• Blocker• Aggressor

Could be…..• Clown

Wasn’t….• Deserter• Special-interest

pleader

What else?

Think of someone who fits…Is…..• Encourager• Mediator• Tension Releaser• Feeling expresser

Could be…..• Silent observer

Isn’t……• Special interest pleader

• Clown

• Deserter

• Blocker

What else?

Leaders

• Emergent - leader emerges from a group• Prescribed - A designated leader• Autocratic - Takes control, little or no consultation• Democratic - Listen and consult• Laissez-faire - Anything goes!

A good leader will often use all these styles, depending on the situation

Other leaders you can think of ?

•Good communicator

•respected

•empathetic

•knowledgeable

•role model

•high level performer

•confident

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The transitional process….

• Making the transition from year 11 to sixth form, you may go through the following processes…….

Forming

Storming

Norming

Forming

• Cautiously explore the boundaries of acceptable behavior

• Transition from individual to acceptance status

• Testing the leader's guidance both formally and informally

• Excited and interested

Storming• Resisting tasks or rules.• Resisting good suggestions.• Sharp fluctuations in attitude• Arguing, even when you agree on the real

issues.• Defensiveness, competition, and choosing

sides.• Questioning the wisdom of those appointed as

leaders (teachers / committee). • Establishing unrealistic goals.• Disunity, increased tension, and jealousy

Norming

• Acceptance of the team, ground rules, roles in the team, individuality of fellow team members

• Emotional conflict is reduced

• Cooperation is increased

Remember this:

If you can identify which phase of the process you are in (forming,

storming or norming)

you can identify ways to adapt, overcome, lead and build your team