1. Why Teams Don’t work

2. Team Members
• Shruthi Sankari
• Satyendra Nath Saha
• Sreekesh
• Aiswarya
• Kabillan
• Prasanna Hari

3. TEAM
Definition:
A team is a collection of
accomplished people coming
together for a common goal that
needs completion.

4. ASPECTS OF A TEAM
• The leader acts as a facilitator.
• The members have active participation in the discussions
and eventual outcome.
• The team members decides on the disbursement of work
assignments

5. ASPECTS OF A TEAM
The leader acts as a facilitator.
The members have active participation in the discussions and
eventual outcome.
The team members decides on the disbursement of work
assignments

6. COMMON PERCEPTION
ABOUT TEAMS
• Teams are sacrosanct
• Working in teams makes us creative and productive
• Jobs can be easily done in a team

7. AS J RICHARD HACKMAN SAYS..
• Teams may be the worst option for tackling a challenging
task
• Research shows that team members don’t even agree what
the team is supposed to be doing
• Problem of coordination and competition can damage
team performance.
• Team needs to be real(bounded) for becoming successful

8. THE IDEA IN PRACTICE
• Be ruthless about membership
• Be selective in choosing team members
• (CFO example)

9. What are some common
fallacies about teams ?
• Compelling direction – no right way
– Team leader
– Team (Example : board of directors)
– Organisation (outside a team)
• Setting a Direction is Emotion Demanding
– Authoritative-leader
– Affects leader and receiving end
• Emotionally mature Leader
– They know what to do ; How to do
– High Risk
– Intense resistance may lead to his/her job at risk

10. CONTRADICTION ?!!!

11. What are some common
fallacies about team?
Fallacy
False
Appearance
Deception

12. Fallacy I
The cause and effect is the reverse
of what most people Believe
The mood of the orchestra
members after a performance says
more about how well they did than
the mood beforehand.

13. Fallacy II
Bigger Teams
are
better

14. Fallacy III
A team does
not become
stale in due
course of time
but rather
that it doesn’t
have chance
to
settle in.

15. Newness a Bad Thing ???
The Answer is Yes It is rather bad !!!
People must have the Chance to learn through
experience
how to best operate as a team before they can be
effective as a team.
The following facts say why :-
New Crews always function way worse than the old
ones because of no prior experience working with
each other.

16. Newness a Bad Thing ??? (Cont’d)
• It was Found that 73% of incidents occurred on a
crew’s first day of flying together and 44% of
these took place on a crew’s very first flight.
• It was also found that fatigued crews who had
previously flew together made only half as many
errors as crews composed of rested crews who had
not flown together before .

17. Why Airlines Don’t stick to the same
crews ???
• It isn’t efficient from a financial point of view.
• Due to non availability of surplus pilots , each
pilot may have to work with 2 or 3 aircrafts and
crew in a single day itself.
So it is not at all feasible for Airlines to stick with
same crews

18. How to build a team
 Richard Hackman’s five condition
 Teams must be real
 Teams need a compelling direction
 Teams need enabling structures
 Teams need a supportive organization
 Teams need expert coaching.

19. Virtual team
A virtual team (also known
as a geographically
dispersed team, distributed
team, or remote team) is a
group of individuals who
work across time, space and
organizational boundaries
with links strengthened by
webs of communication
technology.

21. How to keep teams from becoming
complacent..??
• To have a deviant who can help the team by
challenging the tendency to want too much
homogeneity, which can stifle creativity and learning.
• Deviants are the source of great innovations.
• Deviants are the individuals who are willing to say
the thing that nobody else is willing to articulate.
• When you lose the deviant the team can become
mediocre.

22. How can a leader make the team work
effective..?
• By having a good relationship with the group and to
make them understand the group what is expected
and enforced.
• To improve the chances of a team and make the
working special.
• Best team leader makes constant improvising as they
go along.
• Leader brings to the task his or her ow strengths and
weaknesses.