Unit [531] Understand How to Manage a Team (Lm1A)
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Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services
Unit [531] Understand how to manage a team (LM1a)
Outcome1 | Understand the attributes of effective team performance |
Outcome1.1 | Define the key features of effective team performanceA team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role which is understood by other members. Members of a team seek out certain roles and they perform most effectively in the ones that are most natural to them”.Dr R M BelbinCharacteristics of an Effective Team.1. There is a clear unity of purpose where team members share a sense of purpose and common goals, and each team member is willing to work to achieve these goals.There was free discussion of the objectives until members could commit themselves to them; the objectives are meaningful to each team member. The team identifies its own resources and uses them, depending on its needs. The team willingly accepts the influence and leadership of the members whose resources are relevant to the immediate task.2. The team is self-conscious about its own operations and is aware of and interested in its own processes. The team has taken time to explicitly discuss group process -- how the team will function to achieve its objectives. The team has a clear, explicit, and mutually agreed uponapproach: mechanics, norms, expectations, rules, etc. Frequently, it will stop to examine how well it is doing or what may be interfering with its operation. Whatever the problem may be, it gets open discussion and a solution found. Roles are balanced and shared to facilitate both the accomplishment of tasks and feelings of team cohesion and morale.3. The team has set clear and demanding performance goals for itself and has translated these performance goals into well-defined concretemilestones against which it measures itself. The team defines and achieves a continuous series of "small...
Unit [531] Understand how to manage a team (LM1a)
Outcome1 | Understand the attributes of effective team performance |
Outcome1.1 | Define the key features of effective team performanceA team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role which is understood by other members. Members of a team seek out certain roles and they perform most effectively in the ones that are most natural to them”.Dr R M BelbinCharacteristics of an Effective Team.1. There is a clear unity of purpose where team members share a sense of purpose and common goals, and each team member is willing to work to achieve these goals.There was free discussion of the objectives until members could commit themselves to them; the objectives are meaningful to each team member. The team identifies its own resources and uses them, depending on its needs. The team willingly accepts the influence and leadership of the members whose resources are relevant to the immediate task.2. The team is self-conscious about its own operations and is aware of and interested in its own processes. The team has taken time to explicitly discuss group process -- how the team will function to achieve its objectives. The team has a clear, explicit, and mutually agreed uponapproach: mechanics, norms, expectations, rules, etc. Frequently, it will stop to examine how well it is doing or what may be interfering with its operation. Whatever the problem may be, it gets open discussion and a solution found. Roles are balanced and shared to facilitate both the accomplishment of tasks and feelings of team cohesion and morale.3. The team has set clear and demanding performance goals for itself and has translated these performance goals into well-defined concretemilestones against which it measures itself. The team defines and achieves a continuous series of "small...