Training, Teaching and Learning Materials Development

LO1 Providing team leadership

INTRODUCTION Learning Guide # 11

This learning guide is developed to provide you the necessary information regarding the following content
coverage and topics

1. Provide team leadership

2. Foster individual and organizational growth
3. Monitor and evaluate workplace learning
4. Develop team commitment and cooperation
5. Facilitate accomplishment of organizational goals

This guide will also assist you to attain the learning outcome stated in the cover page. Specifically, upon
completion of this Learning Guide, you will be able to –

 Familiarize and understand how to identify learning and development of needs

 Implement organizational requirements
Learning Activities
1. Read the specific objectives of this Learning Guide.
2. Read the information written in the “Information Sheet”
3. Accomplish the “Self-check”.
4. If you learned a satisfactory evaluation proceed to the next “Information Sheet”. However, if your rating is
unsatisfactory, see your teacher for further instructions or go back to Learning Activity.
5. Submit your accomplished Self-check. This will form part of your training portfolio.
6. Read and Practice “Operation Sheets”.
7. If you think you are ready proceed to “Job Sheet”.
8. Request you teacher to observe your organizational growth of the exercises and give you feedback.

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Information Sheet 1 Provide team leadership

1.1 Identify learning and develops needs
A team is a group of people working together to achieve a common goal.
The principal characteristics of a team are that it:
 Has common purpose
 Has a shared understanding of that purpose
 Is pooling the efforts and resources of its members to achieve that purpose
 Can achieve more together than the individuals in it could by working separately.
1.2 Implements organizational requirements
Communication skills required depend on the stages of team development.
The three stages of team development are Forming, Storming and Performing.
Forming: As a team comes together, individuals are wary of each other. They may not know
each other. They are polite, but guarded, unwilling to share any information which may make
them vulnerable.
Storming: As members get to know each other, they grow in confidence. They begin to express
their real feelings. There are often expressions of resentment or dislike. There may be challenges
to the leadership, differences of opinion. Personality clashes and conflicts arise. It is important to
recognize and be prepared to tackle this stage. Otherwise, the team will remain pre-occupied with
its differences and be unable to face the task.
Performing: At this stage, the team is more cohesive. It has developed a sense of identity and
purpose. Individuals are willing to share information and have become more supportive and
tolerant of each other.
Success in reaching this stage is largely dependent on the team-leader’s communication skills.
The leader needs to understand the values of the team-members; what they want to achieve, how
they want to develop and the satisfaction they get from working with other people. It is also
important that individual values should be in line with the broader values.

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