By working as a team you can gain valuable knowledge from those who are more experienced than you, but it also allows you to suggest newer and fresher ways to approach learning. Each member or person has their own skill and expertise, communicating with them helps you to learn, build up your own knowledge and know your own responsibilities.By working as a team you will also learn to trust and respect your colleagues, build relationships and build your own confidence. Problems can be shared and solutions can be discussed or suggested. You can learn new skills, take better responsibility of your own role and achieve your end goal more effectively. Teamwork sets a good example to others especially children and shows them they are surrounded by people who they can trust and respect.When adults are working effectively together and are working as part of a team, the children will see them as role models and will follow, copy and mimic what they see, To a parent this shows that the school are setting a good
unit 21 1.1 The impact that theories and models could have on group work practise is certain models could make the group stronger and more formed, by bringing out strengths and abilities of group members. Also giving other group members the opportunity to gain knowledge in certain areas where they were unsure. The possible negative outcome is that it could cause conflict and tension within the group, leading to the inability to complete group tasks. 1.2 To form and maintain a cohesive and effective group the best way is to ensure that there is no conflict within the group causing any problems or tension. Ensure that there is a team leader that is willing and able to lead the group to success and is willing to accept the help from other team members should they need any, the team leader should listen to the group and take their thoughts an opinions on board as with this the team will be more successful and have better outcomes.
Taking into account the opinions of others and listeneing properly to their input will encourage a healthy team and also give the person involved control of whos and what input they would like in their support. Features of effective team performance, are having the team interacting and empowering each other through discussion and suggestion, this enables the team through meetings and every day events to put ideas forward and develop them to see what works and what does not, as some people believe that they way they do things is the only way which is not the case. There are several challenges’ that can form between developing and established teams, as everyone has their strengths but with that comes some allowable weakness. When these are identified it is my job to nurture strengths and set goals to overcome any weaknesses I do this through observation, meetings, supervision and appraisals. Also through ongoing course work to keep up to date with legislation and any changes to legislation to comply with CQC 3.
It is also clear that employees are having difficulty with knowing what and when professional development activities are offered or required. The necessity for employees to be active in professional development, drives the necessity for this project. Allowing easier access to this information in a centralized location and allowing employees to interact, add events to their schedules, and receive alerts of events would solve this issue and would further allow for professional development to be in tune with our company's mission to have the greatest employees in the industry. The need, also, to allow employees to document information gained from professional development events is evident. This would, in a sense, produce a central knowledgebase for other employees to benefit from.
There are many ways that an organization can take steps to counter these threats, as well as respond to them should preventative measures fail. Employees are a vital part to any organization, and the organization could not exist without them. As an organization grows in size and scope, there will be more employees who join the organization which is good for the organization, but it also presents a security risk. Any organization stores information of some kind, though some organizations store information that is more sensitive or private than others. In these organizations, the employees, customers, and clients all expect that the information they provide will be safe.
Tuckman’s theory helps individuals to understand how team progress evolves. It helps team members within the public services to consider how they encounter different problems at different stages of their development. This then leads to team cohesion because the group comes together during the team tasks. A limitation within this theory may be that it makes team building too linear and consecutive, however this is a useful tool within many public services like the police force, royal navy and fire service, due to it being important to provide the precise services needed as a team. However it is important to understand that not all teams evolve smoothly.
a. Task achievement - if no one knows their roles, it is hard to accomplish the team goals, for a team to be successful all members need to start out with clearly defined roles. b. Team cohesion - within the team, members generally specialise in different areas. Each individual in the team brings a range of skills, knowledge, attitudes, aptitudes, personalities and priorities to the team.
Members of the team have confidence in themselves and have a positive attitude; this only motivates them to achieve the common plan and purpose. | The team maybe letdown when they are unable to accomplish small success, which could affect their ability to complete larger goals. Should team members lack vital skills, this may inhibit the team from being as successful as they thought. | Mental modelsTeam share the same vision on how the work will be completed | Successful team has collectively shared their vision, knowledge and how the work will be accomplished. Involving team members in discussion on their perspectives and expectations will help build agreement with the group and provides an accurate mental model.
As well as being fun, team activities increase knowledge and allow teams to develop weak areas of expertise as well as enhancing team support, encouraging mentoring and developing leadership skills. There are three main types of teams these are dependant, independent and interdependent. A dependant team is where the members of the group are reliant on the leader of the group for guidance and support and would not be able to complete the task without the team leader, due to this the leader of the group would have to adopt an autocratic leadership style, so that the members of their team would be able to complete the task in hand. An independent team is where each member of the team is able to work effectively by themselves to complete the same task, the leadership style used by this group would be democratic because they would have to listen to each other’s ideas and all equally contribute. These kinds of teams are in permanent
Week Three Team Reflection March 5, 2012 Organizational Development Andrew Wagstaff There are so many different things that people can do so that they can make a great team. One thing is to definitely communicate with one another and get to know each other a little better than what they already do. Another thing is to come up with an activity for all of them to do in a certain amount of teams to see how good they can do things in partners then after they are done with their tasks have them alternate. Of course it would have to be an activity that has to do with what the group will do in the future but the other advantage in this situation would have to be that the group will come together and get comfortable with one another. All of this