Questions for review. 2. What is teambuilding?

1. What is a team?

2. What is teambuilding?

3. What four stages of team developing do you know?

4. Which of these steps is the most important? Why?

5. Describe the “Tuckman’s Four Stages”.

6. Speak about team roles.

7. What kind of roles do you belong to? What makes you think so?

8. What is the contribution of Dr M.Belbin to team building?

9. What 4 archetypes of employees described in the Unit do you know?

10. What is necessary for a team to be effective?

11. What balance is the key to success?

12. “When hiring, look for motivated people”. Why?

13. Should a manager allow his team more freedom? Why? Why not?

14. “None of us is as smart as all of us”. Agree or disagree.

LEXICAL MINIMUM

Key terms

Team teambuilding team work

Words and word combinations

2. background, n

3. rapport, n

4. mission, n

5. emerge, v

6. understaff, v

7. burnout, n

8. outsource, v

9. nurture, v

10. collaboration, n

11. feedback, n

12. focus on, v, n

13. practitioner, n

14. argumentative, adj

15. count on, v

16. error, n

17. omission, n

18. perfectionist, n

19. perceptive, adj

20. novel, adj

21. manipulative, adj

22. prioritize, v

23. instigate, v

24. paralysis, n

25. detriment, n

26. proactive, adj

27. cohesive group

28. compelling common goals

29. to orchestrate the efforts

30. team commitment

31. conflicts over roles and personalities

32. to build the team with complementary parts

33. team personality type

34. homogenous group

35. traits of great teams

36. to constitute an effective team

37. to have respect for each other

38. current corporate philosophy

39. to play an integral part in

40. morale-defeating activity

41. to be on the rise

42. to nurture communication within the organization

43. team building exercise

44. to practise brainstorming

45. conflict resolution

46. inside and outside of the workplace

47. to fall under the broad category of

48. light-hearted activity

49. to fall short of its full potential

50. to fall between the cracks

51. to value smb for one’s expert input

52. to assume different team roles

53. to underlie team success

54. to create a balanced team

55. to cover team roles

56. role within a particular team

57. to manage smb’s weaknesses

58. to become complacent

59. to offend people’s feelings

60. to be on the downside

61. to complete on time

62. to bring to the table

63. to explore options

64. to negotiate for resources

65. on behalf of the team

66. to be receptive to new ideas

67. overly optimistic

68. to come up with new ideas

69. to work apart from the team

70. to weigh the pros and cons

71. to pride oneself on one’s skills

72. preoccupation with technicalities

73. to maintain professional status

74. to be free of backbiting

75. to complement one’s strengths

76. to offset one’s weaknesses

77. to keep up in the air

Examination topic

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