Teamwork: Essentials of Working as a Team
You want to encourage good teamwork. You know how valuable it can be. But what are the essential disciplines a team leader needs, to get the best team working from your team?
Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*.
(See below for more details)
This video is part of course module number 4.3.2
Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 2: Teamwork and Team Working
Other videos in this section include:
– Providing for Your Team https://youtu.be/-4ZGJTc1izY
– Protecting Your Team https://youtu.be/d2l0MAmgZnI
– Facilitating Effective Team Working https://youtu.be/u0_saYNmHmg
– Your Team’s Skills and Expertise https://youtu.be/8thhYXa4ZqI
– Elements of Effective Team Meetings https://youtu.be/QOKkXUza3uw
– Leading Effective Team Reviews https://youtu.be/vjqrYafrttU
– Team Celebrations https://youtu.be/sSF6PMrsMJE
– Problem Solving with Your Team https://youtu.be/sEcQ2FoXzao
– Your Team Working Problems Solved https://youtu.be/tIwRNM-jGKA
LESSON NOTES
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My 8 essentials for teamwork…
Understanding the Plan
1. Having a Vision, Goal, and a Plan – Inspiration, motivation, confidence
2. Role Clarity and relevancy
Engaging Your Team
3. Encouraging Collaboration – And team co-support
4. Recognizing and Rewarding Performance and team (pro-social) behavior
Harnessing Individual Talents
5. Being a Role Model
6. Allocating work to use, stretch, and develop talents
Strength + Skill = Talent
Maintaining Strong Communication
7. Communicating well
8. Creating a Communication Culture and Infrastructure
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
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1. Assess the quality of teamwork within your team. Score its performance on each of the 8 team working essentials. (2 MC CPD Points)
– To help you, you may want to download and use our free diagnostic tool: https://gum.co/EANnU
2. Identify in which of the four areas teamwork is weakest. Put together a plan for improving team working through that area of focus. (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Carry out your plan and re-review your team’s team working performance to identify your next priority for improvement. (2 MC CPD Points)
DOWNLOADS
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Free Resources
– CPD Tools – https://gum.co/MC-CPD
Paid resources
– Management Courses Onboarding Kit – https://gum.co/MC-ObK ($3)
RECOMMENDED READING
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– The Five Dysfunctions of a Team https://geni.us/wbIE
– The Wisdom of Teams https://geni.us/7i1AL
– The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work https://geni.us/Kzc4GV4
– Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart https://geni.us/oAgEOdA
– Pulling Together: 10 Rules for High-Performance Teamwork https://geni.us/zUVV3G
– HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams https://geni.us/0DLsNe4
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