Team Building

Question 1

What is a team?

Answer 1

Two or more people who perform interdependent tasks to work towards completing a mission or objective

Question 2

What are Salas’ Big Five?

Answer 2

• Team leadership
• Mutual Performance monitoring
• Backup Behaviour
• Adaptability
• Team Orientation

Question 3

TEAM LEADERSHIP (Big 5)

Answer 3

-Defining goals
- Organise resources
- Generate solutions; implement best
- Enable interdependent action
- Role in creating mental model
- Behaviour expectations set
- Creation of good team climate

Question 4

MUTUAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING (big 5)

Answer 4

• check procedures are followed
• promotes awareness of members’ own performance
• boosts team synergy

Question 5

BACK-UP BEHAVIOUR (big 5)

Answer 5

• members providing resources/effort to task when required
• members can compensate for one another during high stress
• redistribution of workload

Question 6

ADAPTABILITY (big 5)

Answer 6

• adjustments made for unexpected challenges
• ensures adaptation is focused
• jeopardised by habitual behaviours
• requires shared mental models

Question 7

TEAM ORIENTATION (big 5)

Answer 7

• affinity for working with others
• enhances mutual performance monitoring

Question 8

Supporting coordinating mechanisms (big 5)

Answer 8

• Shared mental models
• Closed-loop communication
• Mutual trust

Question 9

STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT: forming

Answer 9

• Discover acceptable behaviour; conform based on group reactions.
  -Hesitance due to politness
• Establishing report
  -Identify task perimeters & how to achieve it
• Emergence of leadership & orientation
• Mutual information exchange

Question 10

STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT: storming

Answer 10

• Conflict & hostility
• Individuality expressed change in structure
• Competition & Jealousy
• Arguments caused by rules being broken
• Factions created within group; causes friction
• Structural collapse
• Rivalry for powerful positions

Question 11

STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT: norming

Answer 11

• Acceptance of the group by members
• Group-generated norms
• Unity; common goal
• Issues resolved
• Freedom of communication
• Resolution of authority problems
• Emotional support
• Structure and goal orientation

Question 12

STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT: performing

Answer 12

• Members adopt roles that enhance task activities; become dynamic
• Member relationships are established
• Insight & analysis
• Norms are established but flexible
• Mutual evaluation
• Collaboration between members
• Consensual validation