Team dynamics and collaboration

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• explain the importance of team dynamics, collaboration and empowering delivery teams
• understand the importance of feedback

2. Working

You can:

• effectively bring people together to form a motivated team
• help to create the right environment for a team to work in and can empower them to deliver
• recognise and deal with issues
• help create the best team makeup depending on the situation

3. Practitioner

You can:

• identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them
• identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses
• engage in varying types of feedback, choosing the right type at the appropriate time and ensuring the discussion and decision stick
• accelerate the team development cycle

4. Expert

You can:

• change organisational structures to fixable and sustainable designs
• lead on strategy for an entire organisation, joining up business needs with innovative analysis
• make and justify decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity
• effectively build consensus between organisations (private or public) or highly independent and diverse stakeholders
• solve and unblock issues within teams or departments at the highest level
• understand the psychology of a team and have strong mediation skills
• coach an organisation on team dynamics and conflict resolution

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• team building (close match)
• teamwork principles (close match)
• apply conflict management (narrow match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

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