Understand how to manage a team
This video, produced by Mind Tools, looks at how to stop micromanaging a team and let team members excel on their own.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Team building: All for one’ webpage on the Nursery World website
- ‘A team effort’ by Teach Early Years
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Team building’
- ‘Team Building’ webpage on the Management Study Guide website
- ‘Bruce Tuckman's 1965 Forming Storming Norming Performing team-development model’ webpage on the Business Balls website
- ‘How understanding team roles can improve team performance’ from the Belbin website
- ‘Honey’s team roles’ by Business Psychologists
- ‘Good to know: Helping you manage the performance of your team’ by the Institute of Leadership & Management
- ‘Laser Learning reading text’
- ‘How to foster a no-blame culture’ on the CEO Magazine website
- ‘Leadership & staff retention: A no-blame culture (part 4)’ on the SecEd website
- ‘Managing conflict at work’ from ACAS, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Leadership styles and approaches’
- ‘Understanding leadership styles checklist’ from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Effective teams’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Team roles’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation ‘It wasn’t me!’
- Click to launch this lesson’s fourth presentation on ‘Principles of effective teamwork’ by Performance Horizons.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Explore the official Belbin website. If you wish you can pay to complete the team roles test yourself.
- ‘Cross cultural conflict resolution in teams’ webpage on the Mediate website. Click on the icon to read this article by John Ford.
- Click to read ‘Building staff motivation in the Early Years’ on the Early Years Careers website.
- ‘Empowering your team’ on the Business Balls website. Click on the icon to the left to read tips and techniques for empowering individuals and teams to take responsibility for their decisions and actions. You may also wish to look at the other tabs under the ‘Leadership qualities’ section of the website, such as ‘delegating’, ‘managing change effectively’, and ‘managing conflict’.
- Click to read the document ‘Does worker wellbeing affect workplace performance?’ by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
- Click to read ‘Team role summary descriptions’ by Belbin.
- Think And Challenge
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