TRAINING ASSIGMENT.

TRAINING ASSIGMENT

Introduction
Teamwork and collaboration skills are a necessity to work along with other people. As a
part of a society and an organization, an individual is dependent on others and needs to
work in harmony with them. This ensures that their collaborative efforts bring out the
desired outcome.
Course description
This training course will enable learners to understand the basic principles and
fundamentals of teamwork and collaboration, go over the necessary theories and
identify the appropriate way to put it in practice.
Overall learning objectives
1. Synthesize a knowledge of teamwork and collaboration.
2. Analyse its significance.
3. Associate knowledge and real-life practice with theoretical knowledge.
4. Illustrate skills required for teamwork and collaboration.
Module 1
Unit 1 (What is teamwork)
Sub objectives
1. Connect previous knowledge of teamwork with present learning
2. Relate to the fundamentals of teamwork
3. Illustrate the skills required for teamwork and practice
Lesson 1: Defining Teamwork
Teams
Teams are a set of two or more people who are distinguished from other and are
required to fulfil a given task or achieve a given objective. They are required to interact,
plan and act together for the desired outcome (Bondevik et al. 2015). In order to some
the definition, the primary requirements for a team is:
1. Multiple members
2. Mutual dependency
3. Common or shared goal
Teamwork
Since, the purpose of the team is to achieve the common goal, they require two areas of
expertise: taskwork and teamwork. Taskwork refers to their merit and capability to
achieve the goals singularly (Guchait et al. 2016). Whereas, teamwork is the
combination of shared behaviours.
Lesson 2: Fundamentals of teamwork
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni is a teamwork approach
discovered when a newly appointed chief executive aimed to bring about improvement
in his organisation (Gilfoyle et al. 2017). He was met with much resistance and found

that the existing discord among the people was the cause of failure. He identified the
five areas of discord and went to improve them to enhance teamwork efficiency. These
five aspects form the fundamentals of teamwork.
Trust
Trust is a sense of dependence on another person. However, the sense of trust
required should not be based on reliability but on vulnerability (Pole et al. 2016). This
means that even if it is preferred that the team members are all equally capable but can
also account and improve another member’s lacking.
Communication
Interdependence and shared objective necessitate clear communication of plans and
objectives. However, in case of a conflict or debate, a team should be able to bring out
the best solution.
Commitment
All the members need to be equally committed and motivated to the task. This further
eases their concord and allows all of them to be on the same page (Wahn et al. 2016).
Accountability
Within a team, a situation may arise where a certain member may be lacking in any
aspect or may have been unable to perform for whatsoever reason. The rest of the
members need to be able to account for the lacking so that the outcome is not affected
(Gaffney, 2015).
Results
The key objective of establishing a team was to bring about desired results. Therefore,
results act as a measure of success and harmony in a team. Therefore, an efficient
team needs to be able to fulfil the objectives and achieve the outcomes (Oxelmark et al.
2017).
Lesson 3: Skills required for teamwork
Reliability
Even the team is able to account for any lacking or individual failure, the members need
to be reliable in themselves. This means that they are able to perform their share of the
work within the stipulated time in a manner that is acceptable and do not cause any
inconvenience to other members (Soronen, 2018).
Effective communication
It is a basic requirement that the members are able to give clear instructions and also
able to interpret them easily too.
Active listening
Communication and listening skills go hand in hand. For being a team player, one
needs to be able to listen properly, analyse and then answer. This decreases the
chances of debates and conflicts (Jorm et al. 2016).
Cooperation