This document discusses teams and team building. It defines a team as a group of people who work together interdependently to achieve common goals. The document outlines different types of teams including functional, cross-functional, self-managing, and top executive teams. It also describes the stages of team building as forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Additionally, the document emphasizes the importance of synergy which occurs when team performance is greater than the sum of individual members' contributions, multiplying their combined efforts.

1. M. Mahesh Kumar

2. Index
 Objectives
 A Story
 Team
 Types of Teams
 Team Building
 Characteristics of Team Building
 Stages of Team Building
 Team Evaluation
 Magic of Synergy

3. Objectives
 Understanding the terms TEAM and TEAM
BUILDING
 Different types of Teams and their Features
 Stages of Team Building
 How to evaluate Team
 Importance of Synergy

4. A Story
There is a story about four people named Everybody,
Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody
was asked to do. Anybody could have done it. Nobody
did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was
Everybody ‘s job. Everybody thought Anybody could
do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do
it. Consequently it would up that Nobody told
Anybody, so Everybody blamed Somebody.
But still NOBODY DID IT!!

5. A Team is where
 People depend on each other
May or may not work in the same physical location
Combine to achieve something together
Work together successfully
Solve problems and reach decisions by getting input from
everybody
Can adapt to change
Sustain the enthusiasm and lend support needed to complete
the task

6. United We Grow,
Divided We Fall
T Together
E Empowering each other
A Achieve
M More

7. Types of Teams
 Functional Operating Team
Cross-Functional Team
Self- Managing Team
Self- Defining Team
Top Executive Team

8. Features
 Functional Operating Team
- Formal Leader
- Members with similar, but specialized functions
- Eg: Maintenance Crew
 Self- Managing Team
- No Formal Leader – leadership may rotate
- Members with similar, but specialized functions
- External leader in the same organization to
direct, coach, support and delegate

9. Features
 Cross Functional Team
- Usually has a Formal Leader
- Members with different functions- various stakeholders
- Eg: Maintenance Crew
 Self-Defining Team
- No formal leader – leadership may rotate
- Facilitator act as leader – role rotates
- Members will have similar goals or business purpose,
but specialization of roles is possible
-Eg: Restaurants

10. Features
 Top Executive Team
- A leader elected by Board of Directors
- Directors of the Organizations, Department
Heads, Corporate Heads etc.
Eg: Chairman, MD, DMD, CEO, CFO, COO etc.

11. Team Building
 The process of working with a team to clarify its
task and how team members can work together to
achieve it.
 Is the process of enabling the group of people to
reach their goal.
 Process of making a team effective

12. Characteristics of Team Building
•High level of Interdependence among Team Members
•Everyone willing to contribute
•Relaxed climate for communication
•Mutual Trust
•Clear idea about Targets
•Defined Roles
•Creating new ideas

13. Stages in Team Building
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning

14. Forming
 High dependence on leader for guidance and direction
 Little agreement on team
 Individual roles and responsibilities are unclear
 Must be prepared to answer lots of question and the
team’s purpose and external relationships
 Members test tolerance of system

15. Storming
 Decisions don’t come easily within group
 Team members vie for position
 Clarity of purpose increases but plenty of
uncertainties persist
 Compromises my be required to enable progress

16. Norming
 Team members realize that they are not going to crash-
and-burn and start helping each other.
 Members accept:
- their team and their roles in the team;
- team rules and procedures;
- the individuality of fellow members.
 Sense of Team Spirit
 The team discusses and develops its processes and
working style

17. Performing
 The team clearly knows what it is doing and why
 The team has a shared vision
 There is a focus over-achieving goals
 Disagreements occur but they are resolved positively
 Team members look after each other
 The team does not need to be instructed or assisted

18. Adjourning
 Adjourning , is the break-up of the group, hopefully
when their task is completed successfully, their
purpose fulfilled; every one can move on to new
things, feeling good about what has been achieved
 Recognition of and sensitivity to people ‘s
vulnerabilities during the fifth stage is helpful to
organization
 Celebrate team achievements

19. Team Evaluation
 Team goals
 Participation
 Feedback
 Team Decision making
 Leadership
 Problem Solving
 Conflict

20. The Magic of SYNERGY
 Normally, 1+1=2.
 But, sometimes when we work as a TEAM, 1+1 may
become 11, 111, or even 1111! In fact, there is no
limit.
 That is called SYNERGY;
 It is SYNCHRONISED ENERGY.
 It has a MULITIPLIER EFFECT.

21. Stories
 Hare & Tortoise
 From the birds flying in a formation?
 Who moved my cheese?

22. Coming together is beginning
Keeping together is progress and
Working together is success
By
M. Mahesh Kumar
T hank you! Manager- P & A