This document discusses team building and self-managing teams. It defines team building as activities that encourage cooperation and examining how team members work together. The stages of team building include identifying problems, collecting data, providing feedback, and applying problem-solving skills on the job. Key team building skills include consultation, interpersonal skills, research, and feedback. Self-managing teams are given autonomy over their work and tasks, with members taking on multiple roles as needed. The document outlines advantages like flexibility and job satisfaction, and disadvantages such as initial inefficiencies.

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