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Team Interventions
INTERVENTIONS
CHAPTER # 8
TYPES OF TEAMS
CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAMS:
Comprised of individuals with functional home base. They meet
regularly to solve ongoing challenges requiring input from a
number of functional areas.
EFFECTIVE TEAMS:
Are relaxed, comfortable and informal
HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS:
They have strong interpersonal commitment i.e. commitment to
others growth and success.
EFFECTIVE TEAM
An effective team has certain characteristics that allow
the team members to function more effectively and
productively
An effective team develops ways to share leadership roles
and ways to share accountability for their work products,
shifting the emphasis from individual to several within the
team. A team also develops a specific team purpose and
concrete work products that the members produce
together.
COMPONENTS OF EFFECTIVE
TEAM
There are 4 essential components of effective team
1. Positive corporate culture
2. Give recognition
a. Outstanding performance
b. Continued performance
c. Improved performance
3. Positive feedback
4. Provide new opportunities
TEAM INTERVENTION
The purpose of team intervention is to help
employees/ members of the team that are
struggling in some way. This usually refers to
performance but can include emotional/
behavioral/ social concerns.
TEAM-BUILDING INTERVENTIONS
The 4 main areas:
Diagnosis
Task accomplishment
Team relationships
Team and organization process
PROCESS CONSULTATION
INTERVENTION
Process consultation is the creation of a relationship
with the client that permits the client to perceive,
understand, and act on the process events that occur
in the clients internal and external environment in order
to improve the situation as defined by the client
the central discipline for helping professionals to build
strong client-consultant relationships that result in
sustained change and improvement.
GESTALT APPROACH
A form of team building that focuses more on individual
than the group (Stanley M Herman)
Goals of Gestalt therapy are: Awareness, integration,
maturation, authenticity, self-regulation, and behavior
change.
The primary thrust is to make the individual stronger,
more authentic, and more in touch with the individuals
own feelings.