Unit 19 a1
P2
TEAM BUILDING
Good teamwork is needed to have a successful organisation. High-performance teams need team members with skills that complement each other and who work well together to get the task done quickly and effectively. Team building is all about recruiting and selecting the right mix of people who will be good team players; training, mentoring and coaching them to help them perform better as a team such that they become a high performing team.
Recruitment
When you manage and supervise people at work you need to make sure that you manage the flow of new people joining the organisation and keep the people already there.
The recruitment process is all about identifying the skills and competences that will be required in new team members, otherwise known as job analysis, from where a person specification can be drawn up
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This means that they need to know the Belbin’s roles because this will then help when you do the selection of team members. While working as a team member you need to reflect on the types of skills that have been demonstrated by the other team members and also think about your own skills. This is where you should write it all down in a log. This is a written document that you will start when you begin to work together as a team and you will regularly maintain it so once you have done a task you write a log. Failure to keep this log will it much more difficult for you to score higher grades because you don’t know how they did last time. Identify which team members did which roles in the team. You can then have a look at the Belbin team roles and relate the work that each team member did to these roles. It is also important to think about your own contribution to team roles. Try to make sure that you are able to do a range of roles that you can play as you work through the team activities. Keep regular log book entries about the experience of trying out these