UNIT 8

1T 2E 3A M
4 B U I L D I N G
Team building is a management technique
used for improving the efficiency and
performance of the workgroups through
various activities. It involves a lot of skills,
analysis and observation for forming a strong
and capable team. The whole sole motive here
is to achieve the organization vision and
objectives.
Advantages
Think of at least two advantages and two disadvantages of working in
teams.
Identify Strengths
Identify and
Strengths Weaknesse
and Weaknesses: Disadvantages
Accountability and Credibility Issues:
Direct Towards Vision and Mission
Unproductive or Freeride Team Members:
Develops Communication and Collaboration Develops Conflict
Builds Trust and Morale Establishes Roles and Responsibilities
Establishes Roles and Responsibilities Unproductive or Freeride Team Members
BetterThinking
Initiates Creative Productivity Develops Conflict
and Problem
Facilitates Delegation
May Lead to Non-Cooperation
Solving
Develops Communication and Collaboration
Builds Trust and Morale Difficult to Evaluate Individual Performance
Involves Cost: Difficult to Evaluate Individual Performance
Introduces and Manages Change
May Lead Involves Cost
to Non-Cooperation
Facilitates Delegation:
Introduces and Manages Change:
Better Productivity Accountability
Initiates and Credibility
Creative Thinking and ProblemIssues
Solving
BUILDING SUCCESFUL TEAMS
 Vocabulary

steer
verb [ T ]
/stɪər/
to make something or someone go in a particular direction
or progress in a particular way:
steer sth back to sth I'd like to steer our discussion back to
our original topic.
steer sth through sth The new CEO will have to steer the
company through choppy waters.
cd2.25 Listen to the first part of an interview with Dan Collins, founder of
team-building specialists Fresh group. According to Dan, what is a team, and
what is a leader's role in a team?

1.what is a team
A team is a group of people
working towards a common goal.

2.what is a leader's role in a team

A leader’s role is to make sure that goal
is well understood and is dear, and then
to encourage people along the way as
Dan Collins they work towards that objective.
CD2.25 Listen to the first part of an interview again and replace the eight mistakes with
what Dan Collins actually says.

The important thing with a team is that it is really key

just a group of people working towards a
common
objective objective. The leader’s role in a team is goal
to make sure that objective
objective is well understood goal
and is clear and then to encourage people along
objective
the way as they work towards that end end. Where
necessary, steer them back on track if they steer veer
off, but a team is really a group of people who are
feeling keen towards reaching
reaching the same enthusiatic achieving
objective and they are feeling supported by their encouraged
leader throughout.
Subject heading
 CD2.26 Listen to the second part. What kind of
communication problems do people at work often have?

They do not have the chance to have

conversations | without a 'subject heading’
- i.e. informally - about I what they want to
achieve as a team .
 appoint
verb
/əˈpɔɪnt/

C1
to choose someone officially for a job
or responsibility:
We've appointed three new teachers
this year.
 Vocabulary

split up split-up
Verb Noun
/splɪt/ /ˈsplɪt.ʌp/

B1
If two people split up, they end
an occasion when
their relationship or marriage: two people end
She split up with her boyfriend
last week. their relationship
 self-explanatory
adjective
/ˌself.ɪkˈsplæn.ə.tɔːr.i/

easily understood from the information already

given and not needing further explanation:
a self-explanatory list of instructions
 Listen to the talk and complete these extracts with maximun of 3 words

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, there are a number of ways of _____________

splitting up 1
leading role
.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. that's self-explanatory - they take a _______________2
being creative
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, people who solve problems either by _______________3
keen to ensure
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, motivated by a relationship and they're ________________4
project management
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, who like to look at process and _____________________5
really effective.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,those four types that makes a team ____________________6
very analytical team.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it is quite good to have a ______________________7
So, in addition to communication, we spend a lot of time helping people to discover their area of strength
and their contribution to the team. So, there are a number of ways of splitting up the roles and the
behaviours that people perform in a team. But, in simple terms, we have people who arc the leaders, and
that's self-explanatory - they take a leading role, either because they are appointed to that position or simply
because they're natural leaders and they have a leading style in the way they do things. There arc creative
people who solve problems either by being creative as we would expect insomuch as they have random ideas
and they, um, they're arc able to really thi11k outside of the box. But there are also those who solve
problems, um, creatively, but using analysis and, er, research. So, they are the creators. We have the leaders
and the creators. We also have the 'gluers' and they arc the people who pull the team together. So, they are
people who are motivated by a relationship and they're keen to ensure that people are feeling good in the
team and they're looking after some of the pastoral needs of the team. They're the sort of person who might
arrange for a lunch out or arrange the Christmas party, will ensure on somebody's birthday they are given a
card - an essential part of a team, which is often overlooked. And finally, there are the doers and they're the
people who like to look at process and project management, ensure that things arc done on time and to a
level of accuracy and quality. It is that mix of those four types that makes a team really effective. So, one of
the things we do is analyse the team that exists and say, 'Well, where arc the gaps?' or 'Arc you biased one
way or the other?' And, for certain roles, that's OK - it is quite good to have a very analytical team if their role
is, say, financial, where analysis is important.