Designed for use in as many different social welfare type settings
as possible, this structured package of materials and exercises
can be used in multi-disciplinary teams, short term teams, independent,
autonomous project teams and virtual teams. In each setting, it
will help trainers, managers and facilitators enable groups to
become effective. Exercises, notes for facilitators and photocopiable
handouts (some of which can be transferred on to OHPs) all help
create staff development training that focuses on collaborative
approaches to decision-making, and helps teams to clarify individual
members’ roles and organisational aims.
Special emphasis is placed on helping consumers become partners,
so that teams can empower individuals to exercise the greatest
degree of choice, become more independent and make the important
decisions governing their own lives and the lives of particular
communities.
Examples and anecdotes from a wide variety of practice fields
illustrate how teambuilding can be used or abused, and how team
members can build on strengths while also spotting signs of trouble.
The team building that results should enable teams to: identify
objectives; clarify the way in which organisational structures
work; consider the relationship to power and decision-making in
the organisation; facilitate positive organisational changes to
take place; strengthen collaborative working; understand and respond
to problems which staff members are experiencing; consider how
their team relates to other teams and the organisation as a whole;
utilise the creative potential of individuals in the group; gain
benefits at a personal and professional level from being members
of a team; help in the overall improvement of effective services
for clients and users.
Contents: How to use the manual. Introduction. Preparing for
teambuilding in the people services. Starting to team build. Developing
leadership and management styles and teambuilding techniques.
Decision-making and problem solving. Staff development. Managing
conflict and change. Resource materials.
Read a sample from this book:
NOTE: this is an A4 wiro paperback version of a significantly
more expensive ring-bound manual published by Longman and then
by Pavilion. That ring-bound manual is now unavailable. This paperback
version contains some revisions, but is essentially the same material
as previously published.
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Effective use of teambuilding in social welware organisations