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EffectiveGroup Working
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Coursework - Group Presentation • Group work task.
Groups will be assigned today
• Task- Analyse the components of fitness and the principles of training as they apply to a sport of your choice.- Propose a suitable training programme for an athlete of your choice, to conduct over 8 weeks.
• Submission Week 1210 minute presentation (50%)
A discussion process with the tutor will be held after the presentation and students awarded a percentage of the grade depending on input.
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What you will learn in this Workshop Learn a useful framework for understanding your own and others’ behavioural preferences
Understand your preferences in working style, response to change, deadlines, decision-making and communication
Use this knowledge to identify your personal strengths and weaknesses as a team member
Learn to apply this understanding to work effectively as a Project Group
SUMMARY: WORKSHOP SECTION 1
Students:
• are introduced to a Behavioural Model
• Identify their own behaviour tendencies and preferred ways of working and how that may differ from others
• Understand how that may impact role allocation, communication styles, decision making and conflict management within groups
• Consider the impact of these different styles on effective group working
Strengths and Weaknesses
Consider your ‘preferred behavioural style’, and:
1. identify 3 ways in which it makes a positive contribution to the group work and presentation
2. Identify 3 ways in which it might cause problems in group work and presentation
3. Describe what kind of team leader you might make?
Create a poster listing all of above
SMALL GROUP
ACTIVITY
Effective project groups
Move into your project groups
SUMMARY: WORKSHOP SECTION 2
Students:
• are allocated working groups
• Apply the behavioural model to their ‘group profile’
• Consider the implications (positive and negative) of that on group dynamics and execution of the processes and tasks required within the Group Task
• Agree some ways of working, groundrules and conflict management approaches
Team Evaluation
Q - what are the strengths of our team profile?
Q - what are the weaknesses of our profile?
Now add the main points to your team colour profile poster.
Ground rules:
In view of your team profile, create a series of agreed ground rules to ensure your team is
successful in:meeting management
time management and communication.
Now add the main points to your
team colour profile poster.
Examples of Ground Rules• Set deadlines and stick to them
• Share information by email
• Notify people in good time if can’t make meeting or other deadline
• Everyone to speak at meetings
• Warn problem members before Tutor is notified
• Meetings to start and finish on time
• Agendas will follow a particular format
• Notes will be kept by particular individual or take it in turns
• Meetings will be chaired by particular individual or take it in turns
One of the ground rules at a golf course in Nairobi:-
A ball lying less than 10 yards from a lion need not be played!
What you will learn in this Workshop Learn a useful framework for understanding your own and others’ behavioural preferences
Understand your preferences in working style, response to change, deadlines, decision-making and communication
Use this knowledge to identify your personal strengths and weaknesses as a team member
Learn to apply this understanding to work effectively as a Project Group
We hope you found this workshop useful. We value honest, constructive feedback.Please take a few minutes to complete a
feedback form.
Please complete thePersonal Learning Outcomes
in your Workbook p 12
This will help your reflection on your own behaviour and the overall group dynamics in
your final assessment
Reflection and evaluation