COURSE 2: Team skills
 
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Course objectives:
Participation in the summer school will enable the students to:
- define team skills
- define structure, team roles and important aspects of effective teamwork
- define competences and needs of team members
- define and evaluate their own position within the participants group from the point of view  of team roles, communication or cooperation
- define teambuilding as a method of group work
- describe different types of teambuilding programmes and to set suitable conditions in order to implement a programme for a specific target group
- use practical activities from the field of team building
 
Course contents:
- the team and its structure, needs and competences of team members
- team skills
- team communication and cooperation
- dramaturgy of a teambuilding programme before the event and on site
- methods of evaluation of teambuilding programmes
 
Planned learning activities and teaching methods:
- theoretical lectures
- practical activities focusing on individual stages of group development
- introduction techniques (ice-breakers, problem solving activities, trust development activities)
- team building activities from the field of psychomotricity games, juggling and other non-traditional motor activities
 
Assessment methods and criteria:
At the end of the summer school the participants will prepare a short teambuilding activity for their colleagues, according to specific criteria.
 
Recommended or required reading:
Newstrom, J. & Scannell, E. (1997). The Big Book of Team Building Games: Trust-Building Activities, Team Spirit Exercises, and Other Fun Things to Do.
Cain, J., & Jolliff, B. (1998). Teamwork & Teamplay: A Guide to Cooperative, Challenge and Adventure Activities That Build Confidence, Cooperation, Teamwork, Creativity, Trust, Decision Making, Conflict Resolution, Resource Management, Communication, Effective
Feedback and Problem Solving Skills. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company,
Parker, G. M. (1990). Team players and teamwork. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
 
Course guarantee: Mgr.Dagmar Heiland Trávníková, Ph.D. (FSpS)