Module 3: Engineering Innovation

Unit 3: Innovation team formation Lesson 4

Lesson 4
Behaviours of an
effective team
“Adapted from chapter 5 and 6 of the book ‘Building Team-Based
Working_ A Practical Guide to Organizational Transformation (One
Stop Training)’ written by Michael A. West, Lynn Markiewicz, Wiley-
Blackwell, 2003.”
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11 important characteristics

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5 Behaviors of an effective team

• Showing respect
• Flexibility with role boundaries
• Credit where credit is due
• General helpfulness
• Showing accountability

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Model of Productive Teamwork

• Cooperative Goals --- positively linked
• encourage people to assist
• each other and exchange their resources so that they
can all succeed.
• Open-Minded Discussion--
• discuss their different ideas directly.
• As they express their own views, they also seek to
understand the views of others
• Cooperative goals and open-minded discussion are
fundamental conditions for effective teams but they are
not absolute rules.
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5 Behaviors of an effective team

• Showing respect
• Flexibility with role boundaries
• Credit where credit is due
• General helpfulness
• Showing accountability

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Trusting game
• It takes time to develop resilient bonds
• Scheduling team-building trust
activities on regular basis
• Here are some games
• Minefield
• Snakes
• Back to back drawing 6