Understanding Group Dynamics for Effective Teamwork
Group Dynamics
Stages of Team Formation
To form a high-performing team, it’s essential to navigate through these stages:
- Orientation
- Defining Goals and Setting Standards
- Consolidation
- Conflict Resolution
Failure to address these stages can lead to obstacles that hinder effective collaboration and prevent the team from achieving its objectives.
Individual Roles and Responsibilities
- Team members’ individual specializations link them to specific functions and responsibilities.
- There’s a correlation between each person’s role, the tasks they undertake, and the expected results.
- The role, in practice, is how an individual carries out their functions.
- Roles are not predetermined; they are influenced by situational factors and personal attributes such as:
- Knowledge
- Experiences
- Skills
- Attitudes
- Previous roles in other teams
Group Structures
can be summarized in: Cooperative
The goals of the separate individuals are unidasExiste a positive correlation between achievement of its objectives An individual reaches its goal if the other participants reach suyo.Las individual rewards are directly proportional to the quality of group work.
Competitive: The goals of the participants separately are interrelated.
There is a negative correlation between the consequences of its objectives an individual reaches his goal only if others reach theirs are increased competitive ties among participants. Individuals are rewarded so that one receives the highest reward and the other the least.
Individualistic: There is no correlation between the objectives of consecucón participants. Each individual seeks his own benefit without regard to anything the other participants. Individuals are rewarded based on the quality of their work independently of the work of other participants.
“The dynamics of groups seeks to achieve a working and a healthy group rate, based on: Discussion: Tolerance and acceptance.
The decision: Objective and progressive. Action: Creativity and respect for others.
“All depends on the leadership role: The atmosphere generated in the trabajo.La group participation.
Achieving objetivos.La organization and planning of the group.
“The leader of a group or monitor a dynamic, besides transmitting guidelines, organizes and directs everything that happens.
PROBLEMS IN THE OPERATION OF A TASK
Orientation relationships PROBLEMS Lack of integration and / or knowledge among members
Ignorance on the task of the task to be developed (content, methodology ,…)
Defining objectives and establishment of standards Lack of definition of objectives or definition imposed from outside the team
Crossover between individual goals and objectives grupales.A better match between the two, the greater team cohesion and the interest of excessive regulations participantes.Un impedes the functioning and impairs
group spirit. It is preferable to resolve cases as they arise in advance to set standards for all circumstances.
CONSOLIDACIÓNAumento of hostility between members of the group, Leadership struggle among the various participants, the allocation of roles nadatienen to do with personality, interest, or the member’s professional capacity.
Absence of a leader who acts as driver of the sessions., Conflicting views among members, lack of cooperation between miembros.Falta of consensus in decision making
Conflict resolution
Tensions in personal relationships and intolerance without facing. Absence of mechanisms to address the lack of participation and productivity comunicación.Falta not been established because of work or techniques that have been established are not effective.
Lack of evaluation of objectives.
Group dynamics: a discipline that studies the forces acting on a group and make you behave a certain way
Tecnicnas group dynamics: a set of means, tools or procedures that applied to teamwork, effective use to develop and facilitate the achievement of objectives.
Caracteristcas: Tools for the team to function effectively.
Techniques with a certain playfulness. They encourage learning, behavior and attitudes.
Objectives: To learn concepts, procedures and attitudes. Analyze and solve problems relating to: Task: identify the main obstacles to be overcome, develop better working methods. The operation of the team: identifying the group’s expectations, establish standards, processes overcome stagnation and tiredness. Optimizing the relationships between team members. Evaluate the team and the work done.