Chapter 10: Teams and Team Building

is defined as any structures that include 3 to approximately 15 people

consist of a small group whose members share a common purpose, hold themselves individually and collectively responsible for goals, and have complementary skills and agreed on processes for working together.

Behavior is a function of interaction of the person (P) and the environment (E).

will make decisions without inputs from others

will seek input and then either makes a decision or engage the group in collective decision making

remains at a distance from the decision making process, allowing the group to make the decision without leadership intervention.

Stage 1: Forming
Stage 2: Storming
Stage 3: Norming
Stage 4: Performing
Stage 5: Adjourning

Stage 1: Dependency and Inclusion
Stage 2: Conflict and Counterdependence
Stage 3: Trust and Structure
Stage 4: Productivity and Work
Stage 5: Termination

includes expectations about who does what and how the they do it, as well as who is responsible for what.

are informal standers of behavior that guide group members behavior. ( the way we do things)

is a system in which people are given power, responsibility and roles because of superior intellect, talent and competencies.

is the relative standing or prestige you have compared with others in groups to which you belong.
– can be formal or informal (richness of your social network

Intuiting – abstract concepts, follow hunches, can see the big picture
Sensing – Pragmatic, follow data and facts

Thinking – analyze, ordered an logical
Feeling – follow their heart

Introversion – Energized in isolation
Extroversion – Energized in being around people

Judging – Make decision based on data at hand
Perceiving – Comfortable with ambiguity, play by ears

People who likes working with abstract concept and develop experiments to test these concepts.

tend to focus on concrete experiences and to reflect deeply and generate lots of possibilities.

They are the theoretician of the world

They are the doers and practitioners

is any situation in which two opposing facts are both true at the same time, yet cannot be true at the same time.

Team in which there is no formally designated leader and members organize their own activities.

relies on the initiative and insight of employers to solve problems and improve process in the areas with which they are initially familiar with.

A team that performs beyond ‘all reasonable expectations’ as compared with other teams in similar situations.

is a collective pattern of defensive avoidance that leads people in a group to adopt a singular view even when there is a evidence to the contrary

involves allowing or encouraging differences in opinions among team members in order to yield better group outcomes.

involves aggression, personal attack, or ways of expressing differences that undermine group success.