TEAM BUILDING

FOR
YOUTH
ORGANIZATION
 TEAM BUILDING FOR
YOUTH ORGANIZATION
 A youth organization is a collection of teams composed
of young people. Success of youth organization
depends on the ability of teams and leader to attain a
common goal. Also, Team leaders must be concerned
with developing more cohesive and cooperative
relations between the members of the teams.
 Youth organizations are generally understood to be
youth-led, non-profit, voluntary non-governmental
associations, and under some circumstances, can
instead be part of the state apparatus or be youth
work-led. They are mostly established to further the
political, social, cultural, or economic goals of their
members.
 TEAM DEVELOPMENT
1. A Youth Organization is a collection of teams
comprising of youth people.

2. Factors Contributing to Team Developments

and Effectiveness.

a) Shared Goals and Objectives. The team must

state the goals and objectives.
b) Utilization of resources.
c) Trust and Conflict Resolution.
d) Shared Leadership.
3. Team Relationship and Management

a) A team is a number of persons associated

together in work or activity.
b) In a relationship in an organization or
movement, people have various
expectation of each other.
c) The management of the organization
depends on the proper coordination.
4. Building a Better Team

a) Team work reflects Camaraderie A team

will not work if members are self-centered
and if they do not know each other.
b) Teamwork reflects Unity Whatever the
outcome of the project, it is the team that
works towards it.
c) Teamwork divides the effort and multiplies
the Success Each group has ample zest
and inspiration to become a dream team.
5. The Characteristic of an Effective Team
a) The Members share a sense of purpose or common goals,
and each team member is willing to work toward achieving
these goals.
b) The team is aware of and interested in its own and it
examines norms operating within the team.
c) The team identifies its own resources and uses them,
depending on its needs.
d) The team members continually try to listen to and clarify
what is being said and show interest in what others say and
feel.
e) Differences of opinion are encouraged and freely
expressed.
f) The team is willing to surface conflict and focus on it until it
is resolved or managed in a way that does not reduce the
effectiveness of those involved 5. The Characteristic of an
Effective Team
g) The team exerts energy towards problem solving rather
than allowing it to be drained by interpersonal issue or
competitive struggles.
h) Roles are balanced and shared to facilitate both the
accomplishment of tasks and feelings of team cohesion and
morale.
i) To encourage risk taking and creativity, mistakes are
treated as sources of learning rather than reason for
punishment.
j) The team is responsive to the changing needs of its
members and to the external environment to which it is
related.
k) The team members are committed to periodical evaluation
of the team’s performance.
l) The team is attractive to its members, who identify with it
and consider it a source of both professional and personal
growth.
m) Developing a climate of trust is recognized as the crucial
element for facilitating all of the above elements.
6. The Characteristic of Effective Team Leaders

 Communicate
 Are open, honest, and fair
 Make decisions with input from others
 Act consistently
 Give the team members the information they need to do their
jobs.
 Set goals and emphasize them
 Keep focus through follow-up
 Listen to feedback and ask questions
 Show loyalty to the organization, the team, and the members
 Create an atmosphere of growth
 Have wide visibility
 Give praise and recognition
7. A Dream Team Leader provides the support
needed for success.

DICTATORS FACILITATORS
1. Hoard Decisions. 1. Push Decision down to line.
2. Involve others as much as
2. Make Decisions alone or restrict possible, in key decisions and give
them to an elite group. people space to make those
decisions.
3. View truth and wisdom as being
3. View truth and wisdom as their
accessible to everyone throughout
domain since they are the leader.
the organization.
4. Surprise their workers with 4. Let those responsible decide
edicts from above. how the jobs will be done.
5. Serve everyone’s interest by
5. Guard their own interests.
developing people.
6. Take for themselves. 6. Give to the organization.
[Link] Characteristic of Effective Team Members
 Support
 Help the team leader to succeed
 Ensure that all viewpoints are explored
 Express opinions, both for and against
 Provide appropriate feedback
 Understand personal and team roles
 Accept ownership for team roles
 Accept ownership for team decision
 Participate voluntary
 Maintain confidentially
 View criticism as an opportunity to learn
 Share ideas freely and enthusiastically
 Encourage others to express their ideas fully
9. A Dream Team Leader provides the support needed for success.
SYMPTOMS DESCRIPTION EXPLANATION
Team members resort to yelling
Team members express conflict
and to combative behavior in the
Combative Behavior through the use of threats,
name of playing the devil’s
attacks, and so on
advocate
Team members scrutinize every Team members distrust one
Infinite Detail detail and check on all aspects of another and fear being penalized
minor or major decision for errors
Decision on minor issues are
Team members feel a lack of trust
brought to the top of the
Amount of Time to Make Decision directly related to them problem
organization, requiring excessive
solving
time
Team members are not willing to
Decision are often changed
Shifting and Changing Decision commit the team to a unified
shortly after being made
course of actions.
Members of the team openly Team members are not cleared
Backbiting and Complaining complain about and find with one about standards, leading to a loss
another of control over one another
New members have difficulty
Members of the team suspect
Presence of a “spy of the owner” breaking into the established
and distrust new members
team
The team has two factions, one of
The team experiences to a lack of
Two Coalitions which has very little influence or
cohesiveness
power
Stress show up in the team
Team members feel threatened
Personal Stress members evidenced by “blowing
and thus become
up” and physical symptoms
10. Seven Team Well-being Secrets

a) Purpose ( Are we committed to the same

purpose?)
b) Role (How will we contribute to fulfilling our
purposes?)
c) Strategy (What will we do to achieve our
purposes?)
d) Processes (How we will work together?)
e) People (How we will care for one another?)
f) Feedback (How we will obtain and use information
about our performances?)
g) Interfaces (how we will manage the team’s
relationship)
“There is no
'I'
in TEAM”.