Teams and group dynamics

1. • History and Meaning of working together
• Individual Vs team
• Why do we form Teams

5. Why do companies use teams?
 Satisfies the human social need to belong
 Two heads are better than one
 The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts
 Team members build trust and want to help each
other
 Promotes better communication
 Multiplies the potential of individual members
 Produces positive peer pressure
 Lighten work load
 Reduce duplication of efforts

6. • Provides a framework that will increase the
ability of employees to participate in planning,
problem solving, and decision making.

7. • Need of Team
• Group Vs Teams
• Functional teams Vs Long term groups
• Character traits of Team Members
• Components of a Team

8. Why to make team not group?
• Whole is greater than sum of its parts
• Goal is common.
• Matching different level of skills
• Matching different type of personality
• Matching different type of IQ

10. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GROUP AND TEAM
GROUP
• Strong, clearly focused.
• Individual accountability.
• The group’s purpose is the same
as the broader organizational
mission.
• Individual work products.
• Runs efficient meetings.
• Measures performance indirectly
by its influence on others.
• Discusses, decides, and delegates.
TEAM
• Shared leadership roles.
• Individual and mutual
accountability.
• Specific team purpose that the
team delivers.
• Collective work products.
• Encourages open-ended
discussions, active problem
solving meetings.
• Measures its effectiveness direct
by collective work products.
• Discusses, decides, & does real
work together.

11. Cross Functional Teams

12. – Honesty/integrity
– Selflessness
– Dependability
– Enthusiasm
– Responsibility
– Cooperativeness
– Perseverance
– Initiative
– Patience
– Resourcefulness
– Punctuality
– Tolerance/sensitivity

13. TEAM
Leader
Quality
Advisor
Doers
Recorder