Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Objectives
By the end of the lesson, learners should:
• Members agree that they must work together to achieve the goal
• There is less hierarchy within the unit than in most work groups
Examples of Teams
• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
• Blocking
• Aggression
• Dominating
• Withdrawing
• Out of field behavior
Types of Behaviors In Teams
Effective participators :
• are articulate wait for their chance to contribute
• allow different opinions to be expressed
• do not deviate from task at hand
• Chronic talker
• Dominator/distracter
• Rescuing group member
• Negative group member
• Resistant member
• Group member who tries to “get the leader”
• Dealing with silence
• Dealing with sexual feelings between group members
• Dealing with crying in the group
• Asking a member to leave the group
References
• Thiagarajan, S. and Parker, G. (1999). Teamwork and
Teamplay. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.