Leading Effective Teams

The session began by deciding what good teamwork meant to us before sharing our ideas with the others in the group. My initial thoughts are below:

• Working together towards a goal.
• Helping other members when they require it.
• Effective communication.
• Clear instruction/delegation of individual tasks.

In small groups, we had to share what we individually thought a good team looked like, sounded like and felt like before sharing we with the rest of course members. Our group came up with the table below:

Look Like	Sound Like	Feel Like
Relaxed atmosphere	Ideas Sharing	Eustress
Efficient	Laughter	Happy
United	Holding to account	Valued

Where Eustress is the area where the level of stress is good enough to allow people to be energised, focussed and where work feels effortless, so will all people to perform highly.

Reflecting on my own practise after this discussion, areas for development include:

• Holding others to account.
• Efficiency
• To share good ideas/practise with colleagues more often.
• To delegate tasks to others, where appropriate.

The main theory of the session was based around Belbin's Team Roles. 

I mainly identified with the Teamworker role but do see elements of the Plant role in my practise. Developing as a leader, as will need to incorporate some of the Shaper, Implementer and Coordinator roles.