EDKP 498 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Team Building, Group Cohesiveness, Indirect Approach

• School: McGill University
• Department: Kinesiology&Physical Education
• Course: EDKP 498
• Professor: Gordon Bloom

Document Summary

Method of helping group to: increase effectiveness, satisfy needs of the members, improve work conditions. Team enhancement for both social and task purposes. Team building is important for both business and industry setting. Organizations believed that team building was most effective technique in changing individual"s satisfaction and attitudes. A close effective group produces the following characteristics. Team is emotionally dedicated toward collective achievements. Meetings are efficient in terms of time and resources. Weakness in team capability are diagnosed and reduced/eliminated. Interventions significantly enhanced cohesion in group exercise settings. Interventions were less successful in enhancing levels of cohesions. Use team building interventions to increase cohesion may be more effective in exercise setting. Conceptual framework to understand what you can do to create activities that will bring people together, make them feel distinct, and increase people"s role clarity and leadership skills. Team structure: role clarity (accept/understand role in team, leadership (influences task/social cohesion, conformity to standards (and group norms)