Transcript PMI - STIKI

Building an Effective team
in the Project
Encep Efendi, ST, PMP
June 2011
AGENDA
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Introduction
Team Development
Motivation
Coaching
“Coming together is a beginning,
keeping together is a progress,
working together is Success !”
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AGENDA
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Introduction
Team Development
Motivation
Coaching
What is a
Team ?
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Team
A team is any group of people organized to work
together interdependently and cooperatively to
meet the needs of their customers by
accomplishing a purpose and goals
Team have members with complementary skills
and generate synergy through coordinated effort
which allows each member to maximize his or
her strength and minimize his or her
weaknesses.
Most Important Aspect of a Team
Structure
Behaviors
Objective
Plan
Rules
Procedure
Roles
Manager
Leader
Analyst
SME
Listening
Supporting
Building
Agreeing
Encouraging
Involving
Resolving
What
makes an
effective
team?
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Effective Team
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Shared value
Clear and challenging objective
What and How balance
Effective leadership
Team Environment
Learning and Sharing
Having fun together
Synergy
What
makes and
effective
team
Leader
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Effective Team Leader
• Efficiency
– Set Clear directions and set stretching objectives
– Know what and how to measure performance
– Organize people and resources
• Clear and constructive communication
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Communicate clearly
Open Dialog with team member
Blend with the team
Build team member
Provide environment that stimulates new Idea
generation.
– Define success in terms of whole team.
Effective Team Leader
• Emotional Intelligence
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Crate environment which make people do their best
Create and maintain strong moral and spirit in the team
Provide positive feedback
Accept mistake and takes ownership for the success and failure
Align believe, words and actions.
• Entrepreneurial spirit
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Analyze success and failure for the improvement
Open to change
Knows to get things done through formal and informal network
Apply policies and procedure
Stage of Team Development
Performing
Effectiveness/
Productivity
Forming
Norming
Storming
Time/Effort
Forming
• The first stage when the team is formed and
members meet
• They learn what the team opportunities and
challenge will be
• Individual members may be confused about their
role or not understand the need for team
• Member will agree on goals and assign action for
work, often independently
• Ground rules or team guidelines are established
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Forming – cont’d
• Leadership will help the team to define their
structure, roles, goals and processes
• At this stage, the leader need to directive and
understand the requirement for team training to
move through each stage
• Polite
• Impersonal
• Watchful
• Guarded
Storming
• Individual expression of ideas occurs and there
is open conflict between members
• Members tend to focus on details rather than
the issue and compete for influence
• Low trust among team members is and evident
indicator of this stage
• The team needs to select their desired
leadership style and decision methodology
• Difficulties
• Feeling stuck
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Storming – cont’d
• The leader should guide the team clarify goals,
defined roles, acceptable team behavior, and a
mutual feedback process for team communication
• Controlling
• Confronting people
Norming
• Team develops work habits that support group
rules and values
• Team use established tools and methods; Good
behavior, mutual trust, motivation, open
communication increase, positive team work and
group focus are apparent.
• The team relationship grows and individual
characteristic are understood and appropriately
utilized.
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Norming – cont’d
• Involve in setting goals and direction
• Team leader continues to encourage participation
of team member
• Developing Skills
• Establishing procedures
• Giving Feedback
• Confronting Issues
Performing
• Team member show high level of loyalty, participation,
motivation, and group decision making
• Knowledge sharing, cross training, and interdependence
increases
• Team is self directing in development of plans and strategy
to meet their goals and carry out work.
• Personal growth and sharing is encouraged throughout
membership.
• Resourceful
• Flexible
• Open and supportive
• Effective
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Performing – cont’d
• Empower to establish, modify own work process
• The leader should become facilitator aiding the
team in communication processes and helping if
they revert to a prior stage
Ending
• Finalize stage, celebrate and
recognized group achievement.
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Ending – cont’d
• Gratitude to the team for their
achievement
• Individual recognition
How to
lead the
team
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5 Keys in leading a team
• Identify what stage your team is currently
in and use the appropriate management
style
• Define the team Roles and Responsibilities
• 4D: Direct, Delegate, Decide and Develop
• Asses and Manage Team behavior
• Give and Receive Feedback
Delegate
• Successful transfer of responsibility, authority and
accountability.
• What to delegate, How much, When, To Whom
• Clarify result expected
• Define limit of authority
• Define and agreed the method of measurement
• Ask, review and get agreement of action plan.
• Follow up
• Adjust when required
Asses Behavior
• Where and when
– Recruitment
– Presentation
– Meeting
Give Feedback
• Specific
• Balance between positive and
negative feedback
• Evidence could be observable
• Owned feedback by check and recheck, not based on some one story
Receive feedback
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Feedback is a valuable gift for improvement
Listen carefully
Seek more information
Seek concrete action
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Introduction
Team Development
Motivation
Coaching
What
motivates
People
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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Abraham Maslow, American
psychologist, first published ‘hierarchy
of needs’ 1943
Individual first needs air, food and
water to survive (physiological needs)
Once achieved, will not be motivated
by more air, food and water. Motivated
by safety.
Then social needs - friendship
Self-esteem, recognition, praise by
others and social standing
Self-actualization - has achieved as
much as possible
If any lower levels removed, individual
motivated by those again
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Interesting &
challenging Job
SelfActualization
Esteem
Social
Safety
Physiological
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Supervisor praise,
promotion prospects
 Belonging, friends
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Job security, sick
pay, pension
 Getting a job
Ref: Maslow, Abraham H, Motivation and
Personality, 3rd Ed, Harper & Row, 1987
Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory
Must have these…
...for these to work
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MINIMUM NEEDS
Working conditions
Pay
Job Security
Working
relationships
Work rules & admin
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MOTIVATORS
Work itself
Responsibility
Sense of achievement
Recognition
Prospects
Ref: Hertzberg F, One more time: how do we motivate employees? Harvard Business Review, 1968
McClelland’s Motivation Theory
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David McClelland, PhD Yale 1941, experimental psychology. 1956 Prof at Harvard
University for 30 years then Prof at Boston until his death in 1998
Identified that people are motivated by the need for:
Affiliation
Power
and
Influence
Achievement
Security
Achievement drive
• Need to perform well at particular task
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Meeting or exceeding standard of excellence
Making significant contribution
Outperforming other and succeeding
Achieving rapid career progression
Being recognize for significant achievement
Managing Achievement Motivated People
As they must perform well, need to out-perform others and
have high standards of excellence:
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Be clear about objectives
Avoid unstructured discussions
Give them responsibility
Delegate authority
Reduce administrative work
Give frequent feedback
Agree measurable performance
Review performance regularly
Focus on their results
Be systematic
Affiliation drive
• Need to established and maintain personal
relationships
• Concerned with:
– Being part of the group or team
– Being liked and accepted
– Being involved with others
– Desire to minimize conflict
– Being recognized for the role within the team
Managing Affiliation Motivated People
As they need warm personal working relationships, like to
be part of a team, wish to be liked and accepted:
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Avoid being abrupt or cold
Show interest in their personal circumstances
Share information with them
Avoid physically isolating them
Emphasize the “we”
Give praise for good work
Avoid criticizing them
Ensure social contact
Recognize and praise their team role
Power and influence
• The need to have power to influence or
impress other
• Concerned with:
– Influencing through position
– Having control of situation
– Having greater responsibility
– Building a reputation
– Being recognized thorough status/position
Managing Power and Influence Motivated People
As they need power/position to influence or impress others, need
recognition, & want control of a situation:
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Assign them a project leadership role
Demonstrate the importance of the project
Ask them for ideas and suggestions
Let them present concepts and results to senior management
Demonstrate how they have influenced the situation
Give them credit for success
Keep them informed
Avoid being autocratic with them
Involve them in decision making
Security Drive
• Need to feel secure
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– Need for stability (financial the most inportant)
– Having result and regulations
– Need for detail/facts/clarity
– Desire to minimize risk and change
– Being recognized for knowledge and skill
Managing Security Motivated People
As they need to feel secure at work in a financially sound
organization, don’t like taking risks & take their time at making
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Build confidence through recognition of their effort
Concentrate on their strengths
Provide information about the future
Encourage their ideas and suggestions
Avoid generating uncertainty
Making them aware of support available
Communicate frequently with them
AGENDA
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Introduction
What is a Team
Stage of Team Development
Motivation
Coaching
Coaching
• Improving performance at work, by turning things people
do into learning situation, in a planned way, under
guidance.
– Improving Performance – Using a range of learning
experience to bring about improvement
– Things People do – Which become opportunities from which all
parties can learn
– Guidance – Where the coach transfer knowledge, skill and
experience
Method
• G - Goal
• R - current Reality
• O - Options
• W - Will
Established the
Goal
• Define and agreed a goal
• Goal must be SMART
SMART Meaning
Specific – Objectives should specify what they
want to achieve.
Measurable – You should be able to measure
whether you are meeting the objectives or
not.
Achievable - Are the objectives you set,
achievable and attainable?
Realistic – Can you realistically achieve the
objectives with the resources you have?
Measurable
Specific
Achievable
Time
Realistic
Time – When do you want to achieve the set
objectives?
Current
Reality
• Understand current condition,
position
• Find more existing information to
solve the problem
• Coaching Question:
– What is happening now ?
– What, who, when, how often ?
– What is the effect or result of that ?
Explore the
Options
• Work together with team member to
explore the option as much as possible
• Offer own suggestion but let team
member decide
• Coaching questions:
– What else you could do ?
– What if this constrain were removed?
– What are the benefit or downside of
each options?
Establish the
Will
• Commitment from the team member
about specific action
• Questions
– So what will you do now . and when?
– What could stop you moving forward?
– And how will you overcome it?
– Will this address your goal?
– How likely is this option to succeed?
– What else will you do?
Source and Reference
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