Foundations Of Senior Management

Managing People - A Broad View
Groups & Teams

Building High Performance Teams

The Mix

  • Four Faces
     
    • Satisfying requirements of sponsor
       
    • Satisfying needs of clients/customers
       
    • carrying out goal orientated tasks
       
    • Welfare of people in team
       
  • Team roles
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    • Implementer
       
      • Features
         
        • conservative
           
        • dutiful
           
        • predictable
           
      • Positive qualities
         
        • Organising ability
           
        • Practical common sense
           
        • hard-working
           
        • self-discipline
           
      • Allowable Weaknesses
         
        • Lack of flexibility
           
        • unresponsive to ideas
           
    • Co-ordinator
       
      • Features
         
        • Calm
           
        • self-confident
           
        • controlled
           
      • Positive qualities
         
        • A capacity for treating and welcoming all potential contributors
           
          • on merits
             
          • without prejudice
             
        • a strong sense of objectives
           
      • Allowable Weaknesses
         
        • No more than ordinary
           
          • inellect
             
          • creative ability
             
    • Shaper
       
      • Features
         
        • Highly strung
           
        • outgoing
           
        • dynamic
           
      • Positive qualities
         
        • Drive and readiness to challenge
           
          • inertia
             
          • ineffectiveness
             
          • complacency
             
          • self-deception
             
      • Allowable Weaknesses
         
        • a tendancy to
           
          • provocation
             
          • irritation
             
          • impatience
             
    • Plant
       
      • Features
         
        • individualistic
           
        • serious minded
           
        • unorthodox
           
      • Positive qualities
         
        • Genius
           
        • imagination
           
        • intellect
           
        • knowledge
           
      • Allowable Weaknesses
         
        • up in the clouds
           
        • inclined to disregard practical details
           
        • inclined to disregard protocols
           
    • Resource investigator
       
      • Features
         
        • Extroverted
           
        • enthusiastic
           
        • curious
           
        • communicative
           
      • Positive qualities
         
        • A capacity for contacting people
           
        • A capacity for exploring anything new
           
        • an ability to respond to a challenge
           
      • Allowable Weaknesses
         
        • Liable to lose interest once the fascination has passed
           
    • Monitor-Evaluator
       
      • Features
         
        • Sober
           
        • Unemotional
           
        • prudent
           
      • Positive qualities
         
        • judgement
           
        • discretion
           
        • hard-headedness
           
      • Allowable Weaknesses
         
        • Lacks inspiration
           
        • Lacks ability to motivate others
           
    • Team worker
       
      • Features
         
        • Socially orientated
           
        • rather mild
           
        • sensitive
           
      • Positive qualities
         
        • An ability to respond to people
           
        • An ability to respond to situations
           
        • An ability to promote team spirit
           
      • Allowable Weaknesses
         
        • Indecisiveness at moments of crisis
           
    • Completer Finisher
       
      • Features
         
        • Painstaking
           
        • orderly
           
        • conscientious
           
        • anxious
           
      • Positive qualities
         
        • a capacity to follow through
           
        • perfectionism
           
      • Allowable Weaknesses
         
        • A tendancy to worry about small things
           
        • a reluctance to 'let go'
           

Establishing a clear goal

Facilitating team development

  • Forming
     
  • Storming
     
  • Norming
     
  • Performing
     
  • adjourning
     

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