TEAM BUILDING

Team: Six Defining Facets

1. A number of individual members with some common identity,
2. each of whom possesses particular aptitudes, knowledge and skills, also
3. such personality factors as cultural experience, values, needs for affiliation and achievement, along with levels of self-awareness and interpersonal comfort.
4. who come together to share their perspective, bias and expertise, to resolve conflict as well as provide support and recognition,
5. through task involvement, social interaction and emotional expression,
6. for a particular mission, along with short- and long-term goals and objectives

Team Burnout: Twelve Defining Smoke Signals

1. Cynicism, apathy and withdrawal; low morale and group helplessness
2. Pessimism and cautiousness; Bjorn Bored Syndrome; little staff turnover
3. Lack of initiative; heads in survival shells, e.g., staff tolerate lack of performance appraisal or lack of staff/team meetings
4. Fear of criticism and hypersensitivity, e.g., heaven's reward and fairness fallacies,
5. Unhealthy group alliances and destructive competitiveness
6. Staff mistrustful and resentful of leadership; family transference and dysfunction, e.g., leaders covering for "stress carriers"
7. Inability to work through or "let go" of resentments or rage
8. Compartmentalizing task focus from emotional or relationship focus at meetings
9. Selfish or secretive prioritizing of projects and sharing of resources- isolated flow of information, one-on-one sharing over group sharing
10. Savior Syndrome; rigidly customer driven; sacrificing staff for customers- no balance giving of yourself and to yourself
11. Feeling like pawns in a larger. dominating context or system not connected with your stressors and needs
12. Stretched too thin: more work with less people and resources: "Multiple and Simultaneous Demand Situation"