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One of the most common questions we get asked here at Shell LiveWIRE is “where can I get funding for my business?” Everyone needs money to support their business idea(s), but sadly there aren’t many Grants (free cash) around and the ones that are available tend to be for small amounts of...
The four main reasons for late payment are: Inefficiency - common excuses include 'we are going onto computer', 'we are short of staff', and so on. It can be helpful to find out how the invoice approval system works; also, if you get the chance to meet the person responsible for passing the...
Let’s look at two practical tools that can underpin team development. The first of these is a way of looking at communication processes. Developing a small task group involves using a wide range of communicating behaviours. One way of looking at this is the TORI model developed by J. William...
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11. What Can Go Wrong? (v): Conflicts
Potential conflict underlies all group processes. If people fail to agree about their respective roles, or fail to negotiate about their respective agendas, or think that others are going off looking for other jobs, this conflict can become real, resulting in a series of problems and loss of...
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10. What Can Go Wrong? (iv): Hidden Agendas
A hidden agenda is an objective that an individual may not reveal to their team-mates. If everyone in a team has a hidden agenda, then the confusion and opportunities for conflict will increase dramatically. Hidden agendas all impact on team performance and can destroy performance...
08. What Can Go Wrong? (ii): Roles
A role is a position within a group that is defined by expectations and needs. The person who occupies a particular role is expected to behave in ways that reflect the position. For instance, a manager will be expected to tell people what to do, be confident and take the initiative. Staff are...
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Groups in organisations can take many different forms - project teams, production teams, committees, quality circles, statistical process control teams, working groups, to name only a few. Whatever they are called, they often frustrate and confuse their members. One of the oldest jokes about...
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06. Team Working (v): Group Dynamics
In this approach the group members are likely to pass through a number of stages, because of the information-processing needs and the communication issues in the group. These stages can be represented as follows: Forming This stage is characterised by 'testing' behaviours such as greetings...
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05. Team Working (iv): Task and Maintenance
Douglas MacGregor carried out research into the characteristics of effective and ineffective teams by looking at the way in which they worked. He found that in order to create effective work groups, a number of different criteria need to be met. Broadly, these can be split into two types: the...
04. Team Working (iii): What Sorts Of Processes Are Involved?
One of the more influential methods of analysing how teams 'work' involves looking at the 'types' of people they consist of. These 'types', or informal roles, have been classified and scales developed to identify them. One of the most popular of these was developed by Belbin1, who identified a...
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