Learning objective
At the end of the module, you will be able to select the right teamwork tool for your team
Survey
What are your favorite teambuilding or teamwork coordination tools ?
Who will be in favor of a full "open agenda" policy ?
Readings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamwork
www.enotes.com/management-encyclopedia/teams-teamwork
Questions
1. How will you use Outlook to organize team /project works?
Using the agenda module. Using the contact module. Using the task module. Using the mail module. Using the note module
2. What are the steps you will follow to produce and maintain the bible of your team / project?
3. Explain why managers use those teamwork tools
Breakfast team meeting
Friday team meeting
Team mailing conventions
Team bible
Teamwork convention
Replacement chart
Team role
Team marketing plan
Shared agenda
Shared contacts
Team 12 questions
Team decision process
Joint team project
Team cohesion index
Mission statement
Team Intranet KM
Team business plan
Team scoreboard
Team billboard
Team membership conditions
Team building event
Team identity
Team room
Team web site
Team outlook
Team delegation test
4. Name the three team communication protocols you want to promote and develop in your future teams
5. Name the three team building methods you want to promote and develop in your future teams
6. Name the three team cohesion / coordination / feed-back methods you want to promote and develop in your future teams
7. Your boss asks you do design and maintain the team SOP Bible for your business unit. List the six main steps you will follow to get the job done.
8. Your boss asks you to organize the team billboard process. What are the rules you will ask your colleagues to follow when using the billboard? How will you sub-divide the billboard?
9. Name the favorite managers processes for facilitating team decision-making
10. Present the ideal structure / site plan / information tree for a team web site
11. List the measurable performance indicators used by team leaders to monitor a team project
12. Your boss asks you to organize a two-day seminar for your managing team in order to foster team spirit. List six practical team exercises you will organize to achieve this objectiveShared agenda. What are your recommendations for making this method effective?
13. Shared contacts follow-up in teams and business units. What are your recommendations for making this method effective?
14. Team identity and team marketing. Name a few techniques for developing a team signature
15. What are managers’ favorite methods for marketing and promoting their team within their own company?
16. Organizing team delegation. Please define the business terms “a delegate” and “an authorization” as far as team delegation is concerned
17. How will you use Outlook to facilitate the management of your own delegation system?
18. What is your definition of “team replacement chart”?
19. The teamwork agreement chart. List the main topics a team should agree on before starting to work together
20. Team mission statement. What evaluation rules will you use to assess the quality of a team mission statement?
21. Team roles. Please describe precisely the respective responsibilities of the incumbents of the three classic team roles. The team leader / commanding officer / pilot-in-command should specifically. The co-pilot / executive officer / chief cockpit officer should specifically. The cockpit officer should specifically
22. What are the advantages for a team leader of staffing those three roles in his/her team?
23. What are the benefits of using a team replacement charts?
24. How most team leaders organize their “team membership” policy?
Clues for answering
The replacement chart
For the team critical functions. The main responsible person. The replacement
The team roles
Number 1. Number 2. Secretary
How leaders use MS-Outlook to manage their team?
Calendar: The open agenda policy. Knowing, hour per hour, where your people are, doing what.
Contact: The open contact list policy. Teamsharing of the business contacts categorized in individual contact lists as customers, suppliers,...
Tasks: Managing a small team projet by delegation of all tasks of the task list to each teach members
Messages: Team subject list policy. Team voting policy. Message letterhead.
