Teamwork
Whether it be with other VISTAs on a group initiative or employees at a host site, teamwork is an integral part of a successful VISTA year. The following videos, articles and resources can help whenever you are working with others, from planning initial meetings to the completion of a project.
Videos
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Working Better Together: How to Design and Run an Effective Meeting: Explore what practices make a good meeting, including tips for being a facilitator and running meetings. Identify goals and necessary steps to ensure decisions and ideas discussed are implemented. |
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How to Keep Your Team Motivated: Simple tools can increase the engagement of your team, increase productivity and avoid the ‘slacker effect.’ Professor Leigh Thompson offers four game changing tips to motivate your team and produce better results. |
Articles
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The Introvert's Guide to Surviving Teamwork For introverts, the increasing use of teams might be one of the more painful realities of life at work. Hours spent in noisy meetings full of extroverts spouting off half-formed thoughts drains your batteries with little progress to show for it. Here are a few survival tips to make teamwork more pleasant, or at least more bearable. |
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Storm to Perform: The 4 Stages of Team Productivity:
Dr. Bruce Tuckman, a psychology professor, first proposed his group development stages model in a 1965 study, reviewing over 50 existing works on team theory. From that body of work, he synthesized team development into four basic stages, even giving them handy rhyming names: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. |
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10 Tips for Successful Teamwork:
Have you ever wondered how some work groups exhibit effective teamwork and others remain dysfunctional for the life of the team? Effective teamwork is both profoundly simple and difficult at the same time. This is why so many teams struggle to get the relationships, the interaction, and the task execution right. Their success depends on these factors. |
Resources
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12 Awesome Team Building Games Your Team Won't Hate:
Team building activities and games are supposed to be not only educational, but also enjoyable. They help the team learn about each other — how each person thinks, works, solves problems, and has fun. To encourage your team to learn about one another without hearing a chorus of groans, here are 13 team building games your team will want to play over and over again. |
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Doodle - Tool to Schedule Meetings
Doodle polls let you pick an array of meeting times and dates and then send them out to potential participants to look at. People can then mark their availability giving you the best time to meet with the most people able to make it. Great for groups that have trouble finding a good time to meet. |
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Trello - Team and Project Management Tool:
Trello is a great tool to manage group projects, it allows you to make and divide work between participants using a "card" system. Useful for a large team project with many moving parts and deadlines to hit. |
