Team dynamics: motives, qualities and pitfalls

Identify the optimal team dynamics towards organisational goals

For whom?

This session is for you and your team if you want to create an understanding of your team’s motives, qualities and pitfalls. This forms the basis for a more effective cooperation. What qualities are present in your team? How do you and the other team members complement each other? Where do things clash? Which behaviours irritate you and your colleagues? How can you use all these understandings to ensure that we work together as effectively as possible? These are the questions you will get answers to in this session.

Learning objectives

Improving the team effectiveness towards organisational objectives

An understanding of team strengths and areas of concern

An action plan to optimise mutual cooperation

Approach

Preparation

You and your colleagues take a Talent Motivation Analysis (TMA) – test and discuss it individually with Ramon. Then, as a team, you share the test results with each other. In doing so, you note which behaviours you do and do not recognise from your colleague. These form an input for the team session. You and your colleagues also decide in advance which motives you want to highlight as a team. Each team member also fills in two individual core quadrants after a brief explanation of this draft.

 

The session: Results visible through a physical and dynamic set-up

During the session, we visualise the results of the TMA team analysis. The scores – on a 9-point scale – are laid out on the floor. For each motive, you and your colleagues stand on your own scores. Each score has its own pros and cons. After lining up, you reflect as a team: Do you recognise your own score? Do you recognise your colleague’s? Why yes/no? On the basis of what behaviour? What do you see as the added value of the different qualities in the team? Then you walk (literally) through your own core quadrants. And you will see where you and your colleagues might reinforce and irritate each other. We reflect on what causes this and how to deal with it.