Over the remaining 6 weeks in class, you will be exploring and developing a learning resource on the relevance of team working to mental health nurses in the 21^st century and the implications for you as emergent mental health professionals.

 

Working in teams of 4 or 5 you will collate your learning into a group wiki.

 

The group wikis will have a structure reflecting key themes relevant to the topic with associated activities, beginning with an online (anonymous) test to explore the team roles that best suit you. This will pave the way for you to identify your development needs over the coming months and into year 3.

 

In week 42, you will have the opportunity to share the learning you have captured in your group wikis with your class colleagues in other groups.

 

People bring to the team not only their knowledge and skills but also their personal attributes and the ways in which they behave, contribute and relate to others. A popular idea is that these individual characteristics should be taken account of in constructing teams. According to Belbin, we need to consider these behaviours when selecting a team. 

 

By ensuring a balance of behaviours or 'roles' there is a greater likelihood that the team will perform well. 

 

This 2 minute film below gives an introduction to Belbin’s theory and some background to the research that continued over a 9 year period and informed his findings.