Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

Interpersonal Relationships
Figure 1.3.7: A District Director of Health Services explaining to visitors from GHS and NGOs processes for getting a
community health compound.
Being a team player
People like to feel involved in a team. They want you to relate to others, talk to them and
encourage them to do their best. Relating helps all team members develop expertise and
talents on their team. Relating means sharing our jobs such that every committee member
has a part to play - and the group shares the glory or failure.
Letting other people do what you can do ten times faster and better means you allow them
to be trained and to gain a skill. It means your work will delay but another person has been
trained to get the job done in your absence.
It raises your morale and makes everyone feel important. We get the ‘we’ feeling rather than
the ‘they’ feeling. Exercise 1.3.11 will show you the importance of being a team player.
Exercise 1.3.11 Group work
Objective
1. To learn to be a team player
Time: 15 minutes
Questions
1. How did you solve the
puzzle?
2. How did you function as a
team?
3. How did you play your part
as a team member?
Facilitators’ Instructions
1. Cut various cards with different shapes to
fit into a jig-saw puzzle
2. Put the group in teams of 4. Each team
members is given a number of cards
3. Allow teams to solve the puzzle
4. Watch how they relate to each other,
leaders that emerge, disagreements, etc
5. Note how long it took cooperative
members to work and those who disagreed
6. Discuss how the team fared in getting the
puzzle solved
7. Use their experience to discuss being a
team player.
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