Building Effective Teams

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Overview What is a team? What does “Building Effective Teams” mean? Where do I fit in as a manager/team leader? How does a manager/team leader build the team? What are the organizational, managerial, and teammate barriers to my success?

What is a team?

What does “Building Effective Teams” mean?

Where do I fit in as a manager/team leader?

How does a manager/team leader build the team?

What are the organizational, managerial, and teammate barriers to my success?

What is a team Teams must have Self generated commitment Agreement through consensus A healthy degree of conflict and creativity Communication Empowerment

Teams must have

Self generated commitment

Agreement through consensus

A healthy degree of conflict and creativity

Communication

Empowerment

Building Effective Teams “The whole is equal to the sum of its parts” Aristotle Identify how people relate and how they fit Performance management Delegation Recognition Development

“The whole is equal to the sum of its parts” Aristotle

Identify how people relate and how they fit

Performance management

Delegation

Recognition

Development

Where do I fit in? Help the team become cohesive Mediating conflict Objectivity Manager of group Performance management Coach/motivator Understand your management style Task-driven Process – driven

Help the team become cohesive

Mediating conflict

Objectivity

Manager of group

Performance management

Coach/motivator

Understand your management style

Task-driven

Process – driven

Practice Helps to Build Team

Practice

Helps to Build

Team

How does a manager/team leader build the team? Plan for the unexpected, unpredictable, and the random Identify how your team members individually contribute to the whole group Encourage rather than cheerlead Model the behavior you expect Be open to the new and different Question why tasks are done the way they are done and why tasks don’t get completed Be creative, optimistic, enthusiastic

Plan for the unexpected, unpredictable, and the random

Identify how your team members individually contribute to the whole group

Encourage rather than cheerlead

Model the behavior you expect

Be open to the new and different

Question why tasks are done the way they are done and why tasks don’t get completed

Be creative, optimistic, enthusiastic

How does a manager/team leader build the team? Confront team problems Eliminate fear (dissention) Destroy barriers between people and departments Help others do their jobs better Examine your role, be a catalyst vs roadblock Drive creativity and change Be decisive Empower by sharing information Avoid “tight control” Manage boundaries (outcomes instead of processes) Modify boundaries as needed Be open to different solutions – choose what fits best Recognize that the biggest enemy is yourself

Confront team problems

Eliminate fear (dissention)

Destroy barriers between people and departments

Help others do their jobs better

Examine your role, be a catalyst vs roadblock

Drive creativity and change

Be decisive

Empower by sharing information

Avoid “tight control”

Manage boundaries (outcomes instead of processes)

Modify boundaries as needed

Be open to different solutions – choose what fits best

Recognize that the biggest enemy is yourself

What are the barriers to my success? 3 Barriers Organization Managers Teammates Feelings that affect the barriers Imposition Ignorance Stagnation Fear Over-eagerness Manipulation/power plays

3 Barriers

Organization

Managers

Teammates

Feelings that affect the barriers

Imposition

Ignorance

Stagnation

Fear

Over-eagerness

Manipulation/power plays

Group Activity Split into groups I will provide the activity to the leaders as well as the result needed or answer to the activity. Leaders will give the group the direction and help them to complete the activity through encouraging them and building the team Point of the activity is not completion, but the process to get the activity completed.

Split into groups

I will provide the activity to the leaders as well as the result needed or answer to the activity.

Leaders will give the group the direction and help them to complete the activity through encouraging them and building the team

Point of the activity is not completion, but the process to get the activity completed.