RecruiterSquad utilizes the four main types of team building:

  • Role definitions - examines role expectations among team members and clarifies their future obligations to each other. Participants have the opportunity to describe their perception of their own role as well as the role expectations they have of other team members.
  • Interpersonal Processes - activities that help build trust and open communication between team members to eliminate misconceptions and hidden agendas. For example, Games Night - a popular interpersonal process activity, where team members face special challenges and compete with other teams. This process builds team cohesiveness and rebuilds trust among team members. By solving these types of problems in unfamiliar settings, team members learn more about each other’s strengths and weaknesses. This activity helps them discover how interpersonal relations at work can limit each individual’s potential.
  • Goal Setting - this strategy involves clarifying the team’s performance goals, increasing the team’s motivation to accomplish these goals. This method helps establish a mechanism for systematic feedback on the team’s goal performance.
  • Problem Solving - this method examines the team’s task-related decision-making process and identifies ways to make it more effective. The team analyzes each stage of the decision making process and data is collected on how the team identifies problems and searches for alternatives.
Another, on top of the above four main types, interpersonal process activity that RecruiterSquad often utilizes is dialogue - a process of conversation among team members that helps them understand the different mental models and assumption that each person applies when working together. As the members gain awareness of each other’s model for thinking, they eventually begin to form a common model of thinking within the team.

Team building and intervention techniques are only effective when they are applied correctly. Team’s needs have to be addressed in order for team intervention to work. It is also important to remember that team building is an ongoing process, and effective team development requires members to frequently revisit the developmental issues and learning.

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