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BPL – ACCESS – Staff learning support session – 29 June 2001

Groupwork and Team Dynamics

By the end of this session participants will have :

• the beginnings of some frameworks for analyzing how groups function
• a better understanding of their personal strengths and weaknesses as participants in groups
• a framework for analyzing and identifying the stages that groups go through
• an increased awareness of leadership styles
• a tool which can be used to help groups become more aware of their strengths and weaknesses

When two upon a journey go, one sees before the other.

Many hands make light work.

Such hath it been – shall be – beneath the sun, The many still must labour for the one.

[Lord Byron – The Corsair 1814]

I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. [Samuel Goldwyn]

Families and communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems. No society can remain vital or even survive without a reasonable base of shared values … They are generated chiefly in the family, schools, church, and other intimate settings in which people deal with one another face to face. [in Etzioni (1993) p31]

… the twenty-first-century-minded leaders … will be community grassroots leaders who specialize in and articulate a local and regional vision and will work in national assembly-type organisations where all corners of the … community are able to come to the table to discuss their needs economically, socially and politically. [Hesselbein et al (1988) p209]

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