This session will increase your awareness, understanding and skills about working in groups and teams. When a group or team meet the members often concern themselves with what needs to be done. However relationships are a key part of the meeting and this impacts on the team performance. This session explores the dynamics of a team or group with the aim of increasing the delegates ability to be effective in a team.

• Aim

  To introduce delegates to the models of team dynamics and helping them apply them to their practice. It will include

  • Tuckman- stages of group development

  • Lecioni- 5 dysfunctions of a team

  • West - seven simple tips for rebuilding your team

  It will also explore how team time is used to set the culture of the team and the stages in running an effective meeting.

• Objectives

  • To explore the links between team working and good outcomes

  • To understand the main models in team dynamics and how they can be thought about to improve teams

  • To explore the dimensions of effective teams

  • To develop ideas to increase effective team working

  • To have ideas to improve team dynamics in meetings

• Outcomes

  By the end of the workshop, delegates will be able to:

  • Feel confident about why team dynamics are important

  • Have increased confidence to apply some of the ideas in their organisations

  • Know where to go for more information

• Facilitator

  Cheryl Brodie