Team Building

International Training Consortium

Disaster Risk Reduction (ITC-DRR)
23-29th March, 2015

Dr Nirmal Kandel , MBBS, MA (Anthropology), MPH, EMBA

Preparedness, Surveillance and Response (PSR)
Emergency and Humanitarian Actions (EHA) & Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology (DSE)
WHO Indonesia

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 Team
A team comprises a group of people linked in a
common purpose. Teams are especially
appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in
complexity and have many interdependent
subtasks.

A group in itself does not

necessarily constitute a team.

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 Why is team building important so important

 To engage a diversity of cultures, working practices and languages

 To share strengths, responsibilities and resources

 To overcome obstacles together

 Partners are dispersed and may feel isolated

 Meetings are infrequent & intensive

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 Me

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 We

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 Us

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 The Development of a Team

Forming

Mourning Storming

Performing Norming

Tuckman Model of Team Life Cycle

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 Group Dynamics and Interaction - Forming

• Team gets acquainted

- - Introductions

- - Shared experiences

- - Personal Interests

- - Personal histories

• Team defines the task/ goal

- - Outcomes

- - Explanation of goals

- - Tasks needed to be done

- - Resources and support

Members are flexible, agreeable, but untrusting and
- - Times lines careful about what they say. No procedures for
working together.
- - Frequency of meetings

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 Group Dynamics and Interaction - Storming

• Team experiences conflict about:

- - Team purpose

- - Team leadership

- - Task assignments

- - Team operations

• Storming characteristics
- - Communication becomes more honest.

- - Disagreements become more frequent.

- - People differentiate their personal needs from those of the team.

- - Morale dips as people begin to think the team will never “get it together.

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 Forms of Storming
• Negativity
- - Continual criticism of team activities.

• Dissatisfaction
- - with anything and everything. Can lead
to negativity and other problems.

• Hostility
- - Can take form of a person being aggressive,
argumentative, even threatening.
Thankfully, storming mode is temporary.
• Crisis Mode
- - Team operating style where anything and everything is a crisis. Team must come
together and honestly confront the issues.

• Shooting Down Ideas

- - Common activity. Can be a sign of all the other forms.

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 Group Dynamics and Interaction - Norming

• Group has overcome differences and agreed

on how it will operate.
• Team rules and norms established:
- - How can the team exceed the “standard”
level of quality ?

- - What role each person is expected to play.

- - How group leadership will be addressed.

- - What types of communication will be used ? “Stage represent the normal

- - What are the rules of communication ?

way the team will work.”

- - How often the group will meet.

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 Group Dynamics and Interaction - Performing

• Working toward the goal the team has

established. (effective, efficient, healthy)

• Team has established its goals and rules.

• Team has developed a way to approach
and resolve conflict.

• Team can identify and solve problems outside the group.

• Everybody knows their role, what is expected of them and the quality
of work that must be done.
• Communication is free and effective.

“Not all teams reach this stage, but success is still possible.”

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Group Dynamics and Interaction
One More addition

Mourning

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 Acknowledgement
 British Council – Connecting Classrooms “ Team Building and Motivation”

 Purposeful Learning for Business (PLB)

 GOARN Team – WHO – HQ

 AIDT - One Technology Court (http://www.aidt.edu )

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 Thank You

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