Leadership Toolkit

Strategies and approaches for skill development in the classroom

The following section offers some strategies and approaches for skill development in the classroom.  Much of the material on teamwork is covered in the Teamwork Toolkit.  However, the emphasis here is on leadership through teamwork, because leadership can't happen in a vacuum. 

1. Leader's role in a team context: Position Description
2. Leader's role in the four stages of team formation
3. Implications of the four stages of team formation
4. Identifying team roles
5. Conducting team meetings
6. Checklist for students to help them conduct effective meetings
7. Identifying and managing conflict in a team
8. Understanding team dynamics

Implications of the four stages of team formation

Ask your students to explore the implications for them, as team leader, of each of the four stages of team formation as set out in the table below:

 

Implications of the four stages of team formation
Consider the four stages of team formation. What implications might each stage have for the designated team leader?
Stage	What behaviour might you anticipate from group members at this stage?	What action might you take at this stage to help the team progress?
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing

Adapted from: Academic Leadership Program, AV-CC National Staff Development and Training Program, 17-21 November, 1997, Clear Mountain Lodge, Brisbane.  Cited in:  Johnstone, R., & Joughin, G. (1998).  Developing a Good Working Environment for Change.  Academic Leadership Series,  Booklet No. 4.  Brisbane: Griffith Institute for Higher Education, p. 27.

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