Good Teamwork Practices

Team Work

• Directed, Goal oriented
• Personality driven

Mode of Operation

• Interactive mode (meetings)
  • All members present at one time
  • Improves breadth of work
  • May not promote forward progress
• Nominal mode (individual work)
  • Members work individually
  • Promotes forward progress
  • May lack breadth and integration

Choosing a Mode

• The two modes are interdependent
  • Interactive mode
  • Generate ideas
  • Determine directions
  • Resolve conflicts
• Nominal mode
  • Carry out specific tasks

Running a Meeting

• Meeting leader
  • Leads and guides discussion
  • Ensures balanced representation
  • Provides visual reinforcement
• Meeting recorder
  • Keeps track of discussion
  • Prepares minutes

Meeting Components

• Agenda
  • Identify specific decisions that have to be made
  • Specify areas in which ideas must be generated
• Minutes
  • Who said what?
  • What was decided?
  • What must be done by the next meeting?
  • Who is responsible?

Documenting Teamwork

• Meeting agendas and minutes
• Memos (ideas, comments, criticisms)
• Drafts and comments