P5- Describe the Different Types of Teams That Operate Within a Selected Public Services

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In this assignment I will be describing different types of teams and the benefits of these types of teams. I will also be describing what types of teams are used in the police. Teamwork activities are important, not only for training purposes to enhance skills but to improve communication and help with team cohesion. Team cohesion is the extent to which teams members stick together and remain united in pursuit of a common goal. Each service has different activities depending on their job requirement. The services are split into two categories, the emergency services fall into the blue light services and the military services are the green services. The green services focus on fitness, orienteering, survival and camp craft, weapons training, radio exercises and other team activities. The blue light services differ as requirements range from medical training, drug awareness, dog handling, fire drills, fitness testing and much more. 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

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