Teamwork: Guitar Playing

The Hague University
-SSMS- Module 1.5
Mrs. Phebe Winter MSc
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Professional Abilities – “Skills”
 Module 1 – Class 5 ‘Team Work’
 8th October 2012

Teamwork
 Teamwork guitar playing

 Perfect Teamwork

Teamwork - synergy
Synergy comes from the Greek word synergia (synergos) 
“working together”

Synergy usually arises when two persons (or more) with different complementary skills cooperate. In business, cooperation of people with organizational and technical skills happens very often. In general, the most common reason why people cooperate is that it brings a synergy

Synergy
To create an outcome that is in some way of more value than the total of what the individual inputs is.

Teamwork?

Teamwork
 People have different expectations.

So how do you achieve synergy?
Teams should take the time to start up before they actually start working on an assignment and spend some time deliberating on teamwork and looking ahead. Teamwork - Masterplan

- Agree on your masterplan
- Know who’s there at your table
- Divide roles
- Agree on procedures

Teamwork - Masterplan
 Masterplan

1. Understand the assignment.
2. Inventorying what’s there. The current state.
3. Planning activities.
Understanding

Inventorying

Planning

Masterplan – Understand the assignment
 Find difficult words in the text
 Talk with your team. What do we understand?
 ( Go to tutor and ask what is supposed to be finished

when it is finished?)

Masterplan - Inventorying
 Defining the current state/reality

What can go wrong?
 Not using the goal as a reference point for your current reality
 Not describing the relevant picture
 Describing only part of the picture
 Have you made assumptions
 Did we exaggerate?

Masterplan - Planning
Plan your goals and activities, roles etc.

Work on your activities.

Implement actions for improvemen.
Check the delta between your plans and current