Building the team
Team development stages, purpose and roles.
Three hours on designing a team well from the start: whether a real team is needed, how teams develop, and getting purpose, composition and size right.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours
- Where
- Team Development
- Price
- £69
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms
Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Managers setting up or redesigning a team
Overview
Not every group called a team is one, and the difference has real costs for public services. This programme sets out what makes a real team, drawing on Katzenbach and Smith, Richard Hackman, Michael West and Google's Project Aristotle. It explores how teams develop, from Tuckman to Gersick's punctuated equilibrium and Wheelan's integrated model, and what the evidence says makes teams effective, including Hackman's conditions and the Big Five of teamwork. It closes on purpose, goals and team charters, and on roles, composition and size, from Belbin to the evidence on diversity and faultlines.
Aims
This programme aims to help leaders design teams well from the start: deciding whether a real team is needed, setting a compelling direction, getting composition and size right, and creating the conditions for effectiveness before reaching for coaching or team building.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Distinguish real teams from working groups and pseudo teams and assess your own team against the evidence on what makes teams effective.
- Plan leadership actions for each stage of a team's development, from launch and early days to the midpoint and close.
- Design a team's purpose, goals, charter and composition, drawing on the GRPI model and the evidence on roles, size and diversity.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Distinguish a working group, a pseudo team and a real team using Katzenbach and Smith's team performance curve.
- Assess your own team against Hackman's four features of a real team and West's three tests.
- Describe Tuckman's stages and Wheelan's integrated model, and identify where your team currently sits.
- Explain Hackman's three essentials and three enablers, and why design matters more than coaching.
- Explain Hackman's compelling direction and why it should specify ends rather than means.
- Describe Belbin's nine team roles and explain why they suit conversation rather than selection.
Built from 2 parts.
3 hours of learning.
- 01What makes a teamTeam development: Tuckman and team effectivenessBitesize3 modules
- 02Clear purpose, right peopleTeam charters, goals, roles and compositionBitesize2 modules
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 3 hours, £69
- Next stepExplore, Forming the team, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
- The whole topicImmerse, The team that works, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Focus? You pay £180.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: More than the sum of its parts, Starting from scratch