Team Effectiveness Assessment

And effective team can help an organization achieve great results. A team that is not effective can lead to a great amount of conflict and could impede successful outcomes. In order to form a successful team a basic understanding of the different stages of team development. Research has shown that Homan/Tuckman’s model show a basis of which all team development follows, that is forming, storming, norming and adjourning or re-forming. A great way to facilitate the team is by allowing them to perform a self-assessment. Mind tools offers a great team assessment tool (Team Effectiveness Assesment, 2015) which helps to uncover some issue that we may have as a team. Then I will incorporate some team building exercises that would include two …show more content…
These tools would be a Survival Scenario (Team Building Excercises, 2015) where the team must communicate and come to an agreement on what items each person is allowed to take into a life boat in order to survive on a hypothetical desert island. The second exercise called Stereotype Party (Team Building Excercises, 2015) will serve as a way to eliminate stereotypes and labeling aiding as a way for us to relate better to each other. Team members will write on nametags a personality type and pin unto the back of each person in the group. Each team member ask each other stereotyped based questions and the person must figure this out. These self-assessment tools enables the individual to have fun, eliminate and prejudices and opens up communication. This will allow the teams to work better together and be more productive as a group. This is allows the team to form which is in align with the Homan/Tuckman model, the members are allowed to learn about the purpose of the committee and opens individuals up to self-reflection. As the team interacts and works together they are continuing to learn more about each other, themselves and ultimately the community. As Ideas are shared conflict may arise this is in alignment with the