Team building

1.  Explain the meaning of team building
 Describe the process of team building
 Identify the different team building skills
 Discuss Self-Managing teams
OBJECTIVES

2. TEAM BUILDING
activities intended to encourage
teamwork.
• Team members must work
together to be effective.
• Cooperation is needed among all
the teams that make up the whole
organization.
• Encourages team members to
examine how they work together.

3.  Interpersonal
conflicts among
team members.
 Low degree of
team morale or
cohesiveness
 Large influx of
new members
 Disagreement over
the teams purpose &
tasks.
 Negative climate
within the team
 Stagnation within
the team with
members resisting
change & new ideas.
Clues To Its Need

4. STAGES IN TEAM BUILDING
 Identification of a
problem.
 Collection of relevant
data
 Data feedback &
confrontation
 Problem solving
experience
 On the job application

5. Skills Useful in Team Building
 Consultation
 Interpersonal
 Research
 Presentational
 Process consultation
 Feedback

6. Process Consultation
 Set of activities that help others focus on what is
currently happening around them.
 Help team members perceive, understand and
react constructively to current behavioral events.
 Create independence in team members so that
they can more effectively think & act for
themselves

7. Process Consultation:
 Facilitating Behavior
 Encouraging open
communication
 Observe team meeting
 Probing & questioning
 Confronting individual
 Stimulating problem
solving
 Attend non verbal cues
 Encouraging learning
 Desired Effects on TM
 Examine intended versus
actual roles
 Identify problems
 Examine consequences of
behavior
 React constructively to
current behavioral event
 Explore new alternatives
 Think & act independently

8. Feedback
 Encourages members to understand how
they are seen by others within their team
and to take self-correcting action.
 It helps the group meet to develop specific
plans of action for solving their
misunderstandings.
 It serves as a springboard in improving
team’s activity.

9. Ethical Dilemmas within Teams
 Team member
appraisals
 Member assistance
 Team selection
 Team Perfection
 Team Rewards

10.  Self-reliant or self-directed teams - natural
work groups that are given substantial
autonomy & in return are asked to control
their own behavior to produce good result.
 Multi-skilling - members flexibly float
from area to area and task to task,
depending on where they needed most.
Self-Managing Teams

11. Advantages of Self-Managing
Team
 Improved Flexibility of
staff
 More efficient operations
through the reduced
number of job
classifications
 Lower absenteeism
 Higher levels of job
satisfaction & commitment

12. Disadvantages of Self-Managing
Team
 Extended time to
implement them
 High training
investment
 Early inefficiencies
due to job rotation
 Inability of some
employees to adapt to
a team structure.

13. Thank You