CIVICS FORM THREE – PROMOTION OF LIFE SKILLS

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TEAM WORK

A set of persons working together with a team spirit.

A team spirit means willingness to act for a group rather than an individual benefit

Hence team work means combined efforts or organization cooperation

Why effective team work is good

• It is a large measure of motivation which lies in being part of a team with a recognized identity where the members feel that they are part of a cohesive unit working towards a broad goal
  
• Usually the output of the effective team work is greater than what would be achieved by the member working individually this tends to produce good quality of output being at school office shamba army etc
  

 

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TEAM ROLES

Effective is that their success is brought about by some of their technical abilities in mental activities drive humor communication skills and through a combination of different types of people.

There are four common theories which guide the effectiveness of the team roles

1. Thinkers
   
2. Doers
   
3. Careers
   
4. Leaders
   

 

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• Thinkers
  
  

 

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Are a set of people who tend to produce carefully throughout ideas and soberly weigh up the contribution of others.

They are useful planners and help to curb the impetuosity of the doers

• Doers
  

 

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Are the task oriented and can be exhibited ”funnel vision” where all they can see is driving on and getting jobs they are useful as time controllers and keeping the team focused on the objectives.

Both thinkers and doers concentrate upon the work in hand without necessarily appreciating the importance of the human dimension

• Carriers
  

 

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Are people who have a bias towards people and their needs.

They understand the importance of productive relationships between their members carrier maintain harmony through smoothing cheering up people promoting humor, helping people in difficult and easy tension within the group.

Hence carriers are needed to keep up morals to maximum effectiveness and to co ordinate the role of a leader.

• Leaders
  

 

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Are people who create and maintain the environment where people can make their contributions in order to maximize their effectiveness of the whole team. Hence they are like the conductor of the orchestra who through standing the experience and approach create the whole of which is greater than the sum of parts

HOW TO MAKE A TEAM WORK EFFECTIVE

A leader can make a team effective by paying attention to the following:

• Understanding the objectives
  
• Knowing the people
  
• Assigning the roles
  
• Communicate objectives
  
• Planning
  
• Delegation of power
  
• Listening
  
• Ensure balance of contributions
  
• Resolve conflicts
  
• Motivate
  
• Make decisions
  
• Learning from experience
  
• Analyze success and failure
  

 

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Importance of team work

• Makes it easy to accomplish tasks under given environments
  
• Enables people in groups to perform work effectively than single handed jobs
  
• It stimulates co-operation and positive relation among people in a given society
  
• It enables individuals to gain more knowledge and skills from other people in the group
  
• It develops positive attitudes on the importance at work and cultivates the awareness of accountability and responsibility to an individual
  

 

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POSITIVE RELATIONS

Relationship is away in which people group or countries behave towards or deal with each other, the relationship can be economical cultural political or even social [including love affairs]

Positive relationships is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of the two or more people to produce together conditions under which one can express his or her feelings real self to produce together a climate in which each can flourish for superior to what one could achieve alone

Building positive relationships is very important because we depend on each other however one must start with building confidence within one self we all want to build positive relations by forming bonds with different types of people i.e. bosses, colleague’s friends and family

Many of us have made it in a wrong way it’s never too late to say we still have room to modify our behavior patterns by breaking our bad relationship habits and learn good interpersonal communication skills which are sending out the good right message to others.

Trusting yourself in whatever you do to others treating yourself as a respected individual the same kind of people will be drawn to you

Positive relations are very important we need two things in life

• To avoid loneliness
  
• To be appreciated and loved for who we are
  

 

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We are brought together by positive relationships and loneliness reminds us that we are missing someone or something in life. We seek fulfillment in the relationships by others by loving just like the way we love our selves.

We can only change ourselves by learning how to love and we should learn to accept ourselves just and you will be able to love and accept others

Importance of positive relationships

Positive relationships among people of a community are very important because they create environment of cooperation accountability peace and security in the community.

Moreover positive relationship has the following importance

• Cooperation among people will be ennglish-swahili/courage” target=”_blank”>couraged through trustworthy that may develop from good relations
  
• Crime will be controlled as good relationships will create peaceful situations or environments people will leave and believe in fraternity and brother hood
  
• Unity will be created hence limiting individualism and cooperativeness
  
• People will land their hands together in waging war against the common enemies for example poverty ignorance diseases etc in so doing people will plan their own strategies such as poverty alleviation projects i.e. introducing success helping groups in social matters
  

 

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Self worth and confidence

Self worth

Is the feeling and trusting yourself in whatever you do that you are good useful and competent

Confidence

Is when you believe in your own ability and being successful the feeling that you can trust believe in and be sure about the abilities or good qualities you have confidence among individuals is a major cause of their success.

• Adolescents sense of worthiness include who they have been as well as who they hope to be
  
• Formulating their self identity requires them to discover what they like what they are good at and what they believe in
  

 

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Note

Things which indicate one’s confidence can be seen in many ways which are:

• One’s behavior
  
• One’s body language
  
• One’s speech[how one speaks]
  
• What you say
  

 

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Difference between self confidence and non confidence

Importance of self worth and confidence

• Self worth skills enables you and individuals to protect their life by not engaging in dangerous things like drugs alcohol beverages and marijuana
  
• It makes an individual to work hard value work and enjoy their achievements through their hard efforts
  
• It stimulates accountability and creativity among people thus increase the income to an individual family and community
  
• Gives power and ability to an individual on how to defend their correct decisions.
  
• Enables individuals to defend their rights and struggle for their violated rights
  
• Gives power to criticizing bad behaviors that affect an individuals or society
  

 

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