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Flashcards in Teamworking Deck (10)
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1
Q

What makes a good team member?

A
  • Listening to ideas
  • Encouraging others to interact
  • Respecting others ideas
  • Sharing information to create a positive, collaborative team environment
  • Good communication skills
  • Reflection
2
Q

What are the benefits of working in a team?

A
  • Improved productivity
  • Improved quality
  • Speeds up development of solutions
  • Increase employee morale/motivation
  • Create synergy through utilitisng different skill sets
3
Q

What are the characteristics of an effective team?

A
  • Common sense of purpose
  • Clear understanding of team objectives
  • Resources to achieve objectives
  • Respect (individuals & their professional opinion)
  • Appreciate strengths & weaknesses of team members
  • Trust
  • Willingness to share info & speak openly
  • Range of skill sets
4
Q

How would you run a meeting effectively?

A

Have an agenda including:

  • Start and end times
  • Times against each item
  • Easiest items at the start and end, biggest in the middle
5
Q

How would you deal with a team member that was over enthusiastic/not focused?

A
  • Thank them for their contribution but clarify the key information required
  • Direct questions at colleague
  • State it should be discussed in more depth after the meeting
6
Q

How would you deal with a disruptive team member?

A
  • Analyse the situation to be clear about the issue/people affected
  • Privately inform them their behaviour is not appropriate and ascertain why they act this way
  • If no reason, request they improve conduct in future
7
Q

What would you do if the behaviour of disruptive team member did not improve?

A
  • Report to senior management and request replacement

- If in a project team, speak to client and senior management about replacement

8
Q

How would you build relationships and trust between a team?

A
  • Team building exercises
  • Social events
  • Sports
9
Q

How would you deal with being brought into a project after another QS had left?

A
  • Meet client and project team, find out what went wrong

- Analyse situation and propose recovery plan with buy in

10
Q

Why is it difficult to have a high performing construction project team?

A
  • Lack of trust between client and contractor

- Projects are long, change of personnel inevitable