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PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP &

ORGANISATIONS 2021 – 2022

WEEK 2 – SESSION 2

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RECAP ON THE BBC BROADCASTING

HOUSE PROJECT & TEAM DEVELOPMENT
2

• Introduction
• Teamwork and development
• Why you will be split into groups
• We are doing this for two reasons:
 Put your team development under time pressure
 Working together with people you do not know

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PEOPLE, LEADERSHIP &
ORGANISATIONS, WEEK 2, MON PM 3

Team Development & Teamwork- I

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GROUPS VS TEAMS 4

• Is there a difference between groups and teams?

• If there is, what are those differences?

GROUPS VS TEAMS 5

Groups Teams
Unifying relationship Collective outcome (or common goal)
Goal can be achieved by Task requires a multi-disciplinary
individuals approach
Tasks undertaken Clear membership & distinct social
independently entity
More use of formal Mutually accountable
communication, e.g. structured Tasks undertaken interdependently
meetings More use of informal communication,
Individual performance is more e.g. informal meetings
important than team Team effectiveness more important
effectiveness than individual performance

WHY IS COMMON GOAL SO IMPORTANT? 6

Here is your task. Go & do it!

Average is 10/day but 4 would do.

Do your best.
Average is
10/day but aim
for 12.
WRITE a
SMART
goal.

Quoted in Whetten and Cameron (2011) Developing Management Skills,

New Jersey: Pearson.

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BUILDING A TEAM: THE PROCESS 7

 Is it a project? Or, are we talking about the delivery of

routine tasks?
 Is a team necessary?
 What should the team look like, depending on the type of
project?
 Task
 Complexity
 Interdependence

 Task characteristics
 Timeline
 Clear direction (vision- if you like!)

TYPES OF PROJECTS IN MAJOR INDUSTRIES 8

Davies, A., Gann, D. and Douglas, T. (2009) Innovation in Mega Projects: Systems Integration at London Heathrow
Terminal 5, California Management Review, vol.51, no.2, pp. 101-125.

TYPES OF PROJECTS IN THE BUILT

ENVIRONMENT SECTOR 9

Davies, A., Gann, D. and Douglas, T. (2009) Innovation in Mega Projects: Systems Integration at London Heathrow
Terminal 5, California Management Review, vol.51, no.2, pp. 101-125.

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MAIN ELEMENTS OF BUILDING A TEAM 10

 Structure: functional vs matrix, how many teams?

 Processes, including the flow of information & materials
through structure
 Softer issues: motivations, skills, qualifications,
experience

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TYPES OF TEAMS 11

Team type Description Task

interdependence
Departmental Teams Members from the same unit of a Minimal
functional structure
Production/service/le Team members collectively Assembly-line type
adership teams produce a common (product/service)
product/service Tight (leadership)
Advisory teams Provide recommendations to ?
decision-makers,
Task force (project) Multi-skilled, temporary , solve High
Teams problem, develop product or
service
Virtual teams Operate across space, time & High
organisational boundaries , may
be temporary
Communities of Usually informal, shared Low
Practice expertise/passion, share info
Adapted from McShane and von Glinow (2008) Organisational
Behaviour, New York: McGrawHill.

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HOW MANY TEAMS WOULD YOU EXPECT TO BE

INVOLVED IN DELIVERING A LARGE-SCALE
PROJECT? 12

Winch, G. (2002) Managing Construction Projects, Oxford: Blackwell Science

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HOW DO YOU THINK INFORMATION FLOWS?

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Up & down the hierarchy?

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HOW DO YOU THINK INFORMATION FLOWS?

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Kurul, E. (2013) Influences of social capital on

knowledge creation: An exploration in the UK
built environment sector, Architectural
Engineering and Design Management 06/2013;
DOI: 10.1080/17452007.2013.802981

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TEAM DEVELOPMENT CYCLE VS

PERFORMANCE 15

What does
some of these
terms mean?

What happens
during these
stages of the
team
development
cycle?
time
Tuckman Model (1965) image from Winch, G. (2002) Managing Construction Projects,
Oxford: Blackwell Science

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WHAT
HAPPENS
DURING THE
TEAM
DEVELOPMENT
CYCLE? 16

What do the dashed lines

mean?

McShane and von Glinow (2008)

Organisational Behaviour, New
York: McGrawHill.

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FOUR PHASES OF TEAMWORK FOR

CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES 17

FIVE STAGES OF TEAMWORK

Forming, storming, norming, performing and
ADJOURNING (Tuckman and Jensen, 1977)
or MOURNING (Lester, 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZbmIg0c2s4

Finally, if you are interested in creating a high performance

culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAdeFHlhKi4
(13 mins)

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REFERENCES 18

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Architectural Engineering and Design Management 06/2013; DOI: 10.1080/17452007.2013.802981
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15. Whetten and Cameron (2011) Developing Management Skills, New Jersey: Pearson.

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