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Module
requirements
To understand what team traditions are.
Purpose
The cause of dysfunctional team culture is due to poor
individual behavior. An unwillingness to change can be due
to a loss of individual power or level of influence.
Role negotiation is used to help build community and as a
team intervention technique addressing power, authority
and influence. Change is directed toward TEAM
relationships and not on the likes and dislikes of members
for one another, nor their personal feelings about one
another. In role negotiation, teammates, in writing, agree to
change certain behaviors.
The role negotiation technique is an effective way of
bringing about positive improvement in a situation where
power and influence issues are working to maintain an
unhealthy team culture.
Reflect on and answer the following discussion points as a
small group, position group, with a partner/ teammate, as a
coaching staff or by yourself.
Instructions
4. Just focusing on team behaviors and not personal feelings, write down,
(a) what others need to do more of or do better,
(b) what others need to do less of or stop doing, and
(c) what others are doing that should remain unchanged.
There is no agreement unless the other individual or group agrees to the
contract in writing.
#1
5. Teammates write out how their own
effectiveness can be improved if others
change their work behaviors.
#2
6. Negotiation. Two individuals discuss the most
important behavior changes they want from the other
and the changes they are willing to make themselves.
Each person must agree to give something in order to
get something.
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