Unit number: Unit 19 Unit ttle: Developing teams in Business
M2) Identfy several team situatons in whic h you have been involved (good or bad)s Create a c ritc al c ommentary on why some of the
teams that you have worked in have been more efec tve than otherss
Situaton 1: Hoc key team outside of the Situaton 2: Paper c hain team during Comparison
sc hool BTEC lessons
Definiton of team roles Hockey on a grass involves eleven players My role in paper chain team was to cut The comparison between hockey team and
playing again eleven opponents. newspapers into strips. Some of the paper chain team is very clear. A hockey team
My role in a hockey team was striker and at members of my team were cutng papers has a formal structure; it is properly organized
the same tme I was a captain. There are and some were stcking paper together to and a team was made by a selecton process.
different roles in the team. For instance, make the paper into the circular shape However, with a paper chain team, none of us
there is a goalie who protects the goal and and link all of them together to make the has a specifc role and there were a few
this player must have good reactons and large chain. Afer a thirty minute, my team organizatonal problems.
great flexibility. Also, there are forwards in a brought paper chain outside to see if the
team. Normally, forwards are the quickest length of chain was long enough.
players on the team and their aim is to score
as many goals as possible. In additon to
that, there are midfelders who play defence
and atack. Therefore, midfelders should be
good at defending and being capable of
dribbling well. Lastly, there are defenders
and their purpose is to protect the goal from
strikers. Defenders must be capable of
blocking a shot and clearing the ball.
Performanc e indic ators The key performance indicators for the The BTEC class paper chain team had only With the hockey team, we had very clear
hockey team were based on the team one performance indictor which was had performance indicators. For instance, from
winning matches. In additon to that, we we produced a long enough chain in a getng trained you could see if you were
were training on a regular basis (Monday, limited tme. improving. Also, winning matches was a clear
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday). Also, our indicaton of how well our team performed.
coach was monitoring our health, as However, with the paper chain task, you
performance also depends on being well. couldn’t tell if your performance increased, as
we only made a paper chain once. The only
thing that was obvious, was that everybody