Questions
The need for team development happens differently and can be vocalised at either inception, mid life or at the closure of a project. Managers or team members express their request in any of the following ways (and more).
- We are a new team, who would like to get to know each other’s work styles, before we get stuck in bad habits.
- I am a new manager to an existing team and would like to share both my ideas, and their plans before I suggest any changes.
- As a senior manager I would like to recruit a completely new set of team members, how can I do that without upsetting the existing team.
- We are a group of specialists that have been formed into a temporary project group. How can we start to work together.
- My team has given me feedback that my management style is not helpful, how and what should I change?
- We are a well-established team that has hit a barrier in our communication and have discovered we have completely different ideas about the way we work.
- People in my unit seem despondent and demoralised, I would like to find out why, and fix it.
- I run a project team that seems to work as individuals rather than collectively. I would like that to change, and build in co-operation as one of our ground-rues.
- My team has to be disbursed, and I would like to close the project, help people to find new teams, recognise the value of their work and say goodbye, in a memorable way.
- I want to leave the job, and do not want to leave the unit in the lurch. How can I leave without disrupting the work?