1) The document provides definitions and literature on teamwork, discussing how effective teamwork requires common goals, complementary skills, mutual accountability and more.
2) It discusses theories of teamwork and outlines six common misperceptions, such as thinking smooth interactions are best and that face-to-face communication is outdated.
3) The document also reviews principles for effective virtual teamwork, such as getting teams together initially, clear communication guidelines, selecting the best technologies and establishing regular meetings.
The document discusses building effective teams. It defines a team and lists their key characteristics as having common goals, mutual accountability, trust, collaboration and synergy. It examines the role of teams in organizations and what makes them effective. An effective team has clearly defined goals, participation from all members, feedback, shared decision making, distributed leadership, and handles conflicts constructively. The role of the team leader is to create a vision, select members, provide leadership, and represent the team. Building an effective team involves setting clear goals, selecting members, providing training and rewards, and developing trust and cohesion.
Teams are more effective than individuals at accomplishing tasks. The document discusses the types, stages of development, and importance of team building for effective teams. It outlines common team types like task forces, problem-solving teams, and self-managed work teams. The stages of team development include forming, storming, norming, and performing. Team building activities help strengthen relationships, roles, values, and processes to enhance task accomplishment and productivity.
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This document discusses the importance and benefits of teamwork in organizations. It notes that organizations that have restructured their workplaces into teams have seen improved results and reduced costs. Some key benefits of teamwork mentioned include reduced costs, improved quality and service, increased employee involvement, reduced absenteeism, reduced conflict, and enhanced creativity and innovation. However, some workers see teamwork as just a temporary trend. The document argues that global competition demands more team-oriented and flexible organizations to reduce bureaucracy. Organizations that survive in the 21st century will be characterized by teamwork.
Teamwork requires cooperation from all members toward a shared goal. It involves understanding each other, choosing complementary roles, and having open communication to solve problems together. When a team is empowered and performance is regularly measured, individuals can succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Sharing outcomes builds trust and allows the team to learn from both victories and losses.
This document discusses the importance and benefits of teamwork. It defines teamwork as people working together towards a common goal and under the same values. The key benefits highlighted are improved productivity, sharing of workload, diversity of ideas, better decision making, and motivation. Effective teamwork relies on open communication, shared responsibility, and keeping lines of communication open. Having clearly defined roles and expectations also helps facilitate accountability and build trust among team members. The overall message is that teamwork allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results.
Teamwork is an essential skill required by employers. Successful teams have several key attributes: they are motivated, strive to understand each other, create psychological safety to encourage participation and honest communication, and desire to help both individuals and the team improve. The article discusses five principles of effective teamwork - motivation, understanding, prosocial motivation, psychological safety, and open communication - and explains how applying these principles can improve workplace environments, increase success, and boost productivity and unity.
This document discusses team building and the different types of teams. It defines a team as a group that works together temporarily to achieve a common purpose, as opposed to a group which does not have shared objectives. There are three main types of teams: functional teams organized by department, cross-functional teams with members from different departments, and self-directed teams responsible for entire processes. The document also outlines the stages of team development from forming to performing, and lists characteristics of high-performing teams such as clear vision, communication, and shared leadership.
The document discusses building effective teams. It defines a team and lists their key characteristics as having common goals, mutual accountability, trust, collaboration and synergy. It examines the role of teams in organizations and what makes them effective. An effective team has clearly defined goals, participation from all members, feedback, shared decision making, distributed leadership, and handles conflicts constructively. The role of the team leader is to create a vision, select members, provide leadership, and represent the team. Building an effective team involves setting clear goals, selecting members, providing training and rewards, and developing trust and cohesion.
Teams are more effective than individuals at accomplishing tasks. The document discusses the types, stages of development, and importance of team building for effective teams. It outlines common team types like task forces, problem-solving teams, and self-managed work teams. The stages of team development include forming, storming, norming, and performing. Team building activities help strengthen relationships, roles, values, and processes to enhance task accomplishment and productivity.
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This document discusses the importance and benefits of teamwork in organizations. It notes that organizations that have restructured their workplaces into teams have seen improved results and reduced costs. Some key benefits of teamwork mentioned include reduced costs, improved quality and service, increased employee involvement, reduced absenteeism, reduced conflict, and enhanced creativity and innovation. However, some workers see teamwork as just a temporary trend. The document argues that global competition demands more team-oriented and flexible organizations to reduce bureaucracy. Organizations that survive in the 21st century will be characterized by teamwork.
Teamwork requires cooperation from all members toward a shared goal. It involves understanding each other, choosing complementary roles, and having open communication to solve problems together. When a team is empowered and performance is regularly measured, individuals can succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Sharing outcomes builds trust and allows the team to learn from both victories and losses.
This document discusses the importance and benefits of teamwork. It defines teamwork as people working together towards a common goal and under the same values. The key benefits highlighted are improved productivity, sharing of workload, diversity of ideas, better decision making, and motivation. Effective teamwork relies on open communication, shared responsibility, and keeping lines of communication open. Having clearly defined roles and expectations also helps facilitate accountability and build trust among team members. The overall message is that teamwork allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results.
Teamwork is an essential skill required by employers. Successful teams have several key attributes: they are motivated, strive to understand each other, create psychological safety to encourage participation and honest communication, and desire to help both individuals and the team improve. The article discusses five principles of effective teamwork - motivation, understanding, prosocial motivation, psychological safety, and open communication - and explains how applying these principles can improve workplace environments, increase success, and boost productivity and unity.
This document discusses team building and the different types of teams. It defines a team as a group that works together temporarily to achieve a common purpose, as opposed to a group which does not have shared objectives. There are three main types of teams: functional teams organized by department, cross-functional teams with members from different departments, and self-directed teams responsible for entire processes. The document also outlines the stages of team development from forming to performing, and lists characteristics of high-performing teams such as clear vision, communication, and shared leadership.
The document discusses team building and types of teams. It defines a team as a group of people working together towards a common goal. Team building aims to improve communication, motivation, productivity and collaboration. There are four main types of teams: problem-solving teams, cross-functional teams, self-managed teams, and virtual teams. Building an effective new team involves getting management support, defining the purpose, selecting members, establishing shared goals and norms.
This document provides a report on teamwork submitted by 5 students. It includes:
1. An abstract stating that teamwork plays a vital role in organizational performance and success, but forming effective teams requires intellectual ability and guidance to achieve goals.
2. An introduction defining a team as a group with complementary skills and a shared goal, differentiating teams from groups which may not have shared goals. Teamwork allows collaboration to achieve goals.
3. Definitions of teamwork from various authors emphasizing shared objectives, coordination, interdependence and accountability in teams.
4. A literature review summarizing articles on building trust through understanding different leadership styles, designing workspaces to enable collaboration, defining high-performing
A group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task, job, or project. Team members (1) operate with a high degree of interdependence, (2) share authority and ...
definition of team
what makes a team
what defines a team
10 characteristics of effective teams
what makes a great team
what are team goals
characteristics of a good team
what are team building activities
This document discusses different types of teams in the workplace and characteristics of effective teams. It identifies five types of common workplace teams: department teams, problem-solving teams, virtual teams, cross-functional teams, and self-managed teams. It also outlines the stages a team typically goes through - forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of teamwork, communication, and rewarding team members' contributions to achieving goals.
Building High Performance Teame module (02) Teamwork Style in Workplaceumar farooq
This document discusses building high performance teams. It covers topics like work groups versus teams, building trust and believability within teams, dealing with inter-team conflicts, and characteristics of effective teams. An effective team is defined as having five functions: trusting one another, engaging in constructive conflict, committing to decisions, holding each other accountable, and focusing on collective results. High performance leadership is also discussed, along with strategies like applying influence-based versus control-based leadership and integrating organizational change strategies with improvement tools. The final section covers styles of behaving toward team members in a way that lessens stress and gets the best out of the team.
This is a quick overview of team leadership. It does not go into alot of detail, it is mainly a "What is Team Leadership All About Anyway" type of presentation.
The document discusses team building and team effectiveness. It defines team building as converting employees into interdependent team members through establishing trust and collaboration. It notes several approaches to team building, including the Johari Window and role negotiation approaches. The importance of team building is highlighted as enhancing performance, reducing turnover, and benefiting employees and the organization. Team effectiveness is defined as getting people to work together effectively to achieve more. Key factors for team effectiveness include the right mix of skills, motivation, and ability to resolve conflicts. Elements that impact team effectiveness are reward systems, communication, workspace, leadership, and organizational structure and environment.
This document discusses the importance of teamwork in IT organizations and provides guidance on building effective teams. It begins by defining what constitutes a team and identifying characteristics of good team building. These include high interdependence, clear goals, trust among members, and defined roles. The document then discusses evaluating and improving team performance, handling conflicts, and creating a focused team that works collaboratively to achieve goals.
Team building refers to developing teamwork and bringing groups together to work towards common goals. It is essential for both managers and leaders to have team building skills to effectively manage teams. To build the right team, organizations should formulate activities to improve communication, ensure the team understands the purpose, and balance individual and team accomplishments while monitoring workplace changes. Fostering participation, trust, respect, communication, and rewarding accomplishments can help establish the right supportive culture.
The document discusses topics related to team building training, including Tuckman's model of team development, understanding team dynamics using the Johari Window model, giving and receiving feedback, and managing a team. It also defines what a team is, lists barriers to effective team building, and provides contact information for MMM Training Solutions, the training consultancy offering team building programs.
Know how effective team management can lead to successful team work, which in turn can ultimately lead to the successful organization http://bit.ly/ZZNmC2
Researchers at Google analyzed data from their own teams to identify five key traits of successful teams: psychological safety, dependability, structure and clarity, meaning of work, and impact of work. The document then provides tips for building these traits through fostering an organizational culture that promotes them and by holding regular professionally-led team building sessions that are engaging, meet business objectives, teach new skills, and are fun.
A team is a collection of individuals with different expertise brought together to achieve a common goal. Teams have advantages like access to interdisciplinary knowledge, diversity of perspectives, shared responsibility, and the ability to accomplish more than individuals. Effective teamwork requires trust, respect, communication, cooperation, and situational leadership where the person with relevant skills leads in a given situation. The stages of team development include forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. A surgical team was provided as an example of interdependent roles needed to successfully complete a medical procedure.
This document discusses several key factors that affect effective team communication and performance, including cohesiveness, conformity, competition/conflict, leadership, and steps to build an effective team. It explains that cohesiveness involves team members identifying with and feeling proud of their membership. It also lists several advantages of high cohesiveness. Conformity means team members abandon contrary positions in favor of majority views. Productive conflict through debating ideas can lead to more thorough decision making. Shared leadership and intellectual stimulation from leaders are discussed. Finally, steps to build an effective team include clarifying goals, roles, communication, and dealing with conflict.
Roshika Ram led a training on teamwork at NTPC Lecture Room on February 11th, 2015. The training aimed to define teams and teamwork, identify the benefits of teamwork in the workplace, recognize factors that weaken teams, and promote teamwork. Key points included that a team is a group working towards a common goal, teamwork requires individuals to prioritize the group over personal interests, and building effective teams requires clear expectations, good leadership, and communication.
Team building skills training can help address weaknesses, develop strengths, and create an environment where employees work collectively as a team to achieve organizational goals. Internal and cross-functional conflicts can divert focus from these goals, so team building activities connect employees across departments to promote rapport, enhance relationships, and improve communication and coordination between teams. When employees focus on team and organizational targets rather than just individual targets, it increases flexibility and the organization's ability to work as a single unit.
The 5 Stages of Group Development.
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning
View video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzsQbJV2Aw
The development of groups over the lifespan of the group.
Tuckman’s Model – 5 Stages of Team Development and Practical Limitations: https://agile-mercurial.com/2019/04/16/tuckmans-model-5-stages-of-team-development-and-practical-limitations/
Why Teams Fail & 14 Success Factors for a TurnaroundDiane Boivie
The document discusses reasons why teams fail and success factors for improving team performance and turnarounds. It provides 10 reasons why teams fail, including disempowering leadership and lack of accountability. It also lists 10 ways to improve teamwork, such as aligning teams around goals and strategies. Additionally, the document outlines 14 success factors for team turnarounds, including factors related to productivity like leadership and resources, as well as positivity factors like trust and respect. The purpose is to help teams assess weaknesses and make improvements to enhance performance.
The document discusses the importance of creating great workplaces where employees feel engaged. It notes that most organizations are not truly great places to work, with high percentages of disengaged or stressed employees in many countries. The missing link is often the line manager and how they interact with and develop their employees on a daily basis. Practicing "Giftwork" through generous, unique, individualized, fitting interactions can help build the trust that is key to employee engagement. Doing small caring acts each day, even when busy, can make a difference in the workplace culture and employees' perception of their managers.
The document discusses the key differences between teams and groups. It notes that teams have shared leadership, interdependent roles, and both individual and group accountability and rewards. Groups have a clear leader and members perform independent jobs with individual accountability. Examples are provided of how teams improve organizational results by increasing employee involvement, reducing costs and absenteeism, and enhancing creativity and innovation.
Teamwork involves collaborative efforts of a team to achieve common goals efficiently. It is present in workplaces, sports, schools, and healthcare. Effective teamwork requires an adequate team size of 6-8 members, resources, and clearly defined roles. The importance of teamwork increased after World War II when organizations recognized its benefits from the Hawthorne studies. Teamwork improves efficiency, generates ideas, provides learning experiences, enhances communication, shares workloads, and creates support networks. Team dynamics describe how individual roles and behaviors impact the group. Leaders should understand team development phases, roles, define responsibilities, break down barriers, and focus on open communication to improve team dynamics.
The document discusses teams and teamwork in organizations. It defines a team as a group of people organized to work independently and cooperatively to achieve common goals and purposes. Effective teamwork is important in fields like nursing to ensure patient safety. The document also discusses factors that make teams effective or dysfunctional, and barriers to dysfunctional teams like lack of cooperation, respect for other's roles, and unwillingness to share skills. It emphasizes the importance of leadership, communication, and organizational behavior for successful teamwork.
The document discusses team building and types of teams. It defines a team as a group of people working together towards a common goal. Team building aims to improve communication, motivation, productivity and collaboration. There are four main types of teams: problem-solving teams, cross-functional teams, self-managed teams, and virtual teams. Building an effective new team involves getting management support, defining the purpose, selecting members, establishing shared goals and norms.
This document provides a report on teamwork submitted by 5 students. It includes:
1. An abstract stating that teamwork plays a vital role in organizational performance and success, but forming effective teams requires intellectual ability and guidance to achieve goals.
2. An introduction defining a team as a group with complementary skills and a shared goal, differentiating teams from groups which may not have shared goals. Teamwork allows collaboration to achieve goals.
3. Definitions of teamwork from various authors emphasizing shared objectives, coordination, interdependence and accountability in teams.
4. A literature review summarizing articles on building trust through understanding different leadership styles, designing workspaces to enable collaboration, defining high-performing
A group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task, job, or project. Team members (1) operate with a high degree of interdependence, (2) share authority and ...
definition of team
what makes a team
what defines a team
10 characteristics of effective teams
what makes a great team
what are team goals
characteristics of a good team
what are team building activities
This document discusses different types of teams in the workplace and characteristics of effective teams. It identifies five types of common workplace teams: department teams, problem-solving teams, virtual teams, cross-functional teams, and self-managed teams. It also outlines the stages a team typically goes through - forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of teamwork, communication, and rewarding team members' contributions to achieving goals.
Building High Performance Teame module (02) Teamwork Style in Workplaceumar farooq
This document discusses building high performance teams. It covers topics like work groups versus teams, building trust and believability within teams, dealing with inter-team conflicts, and characteristics of effective teams. An effective team is defined as having five functions: trusting one another, engaging in constructive conflict, committing to decisions, holding each other accountable, and focusing on collective results. High performance leadership is also discussed, along with strategies like applying influence-based versus control-based leadership and integrating organizational change strategies with improvement tools. The final section covers styles of behaving toward team members in a way that lessens stress and gets the best out of the team.
This is a quick overview of team leadership. It does not go into alot of detail, it is mainly a "What is Team Leadership All About Anyway" type of presentation.
The document discusses team building and team effectiveness. It defines team building as converting employees into interdependent team members through establishing trust and collaboration. It notes several approaches to team building, including the Johari Window and role negotiation approaches. The importance of team building is highlighted as enhancing performance, reducing turnover, and benefiting employees and the organization. Team effectiveness is defined as getting people to work together effectively to achieve more. Key factors for team effectiveness include the right mix of skills, motivation, and ability to resolve conflicts. Elements that impact team effectiveness are reward systems, communication, workspace, leadership, and organizational structure and environment.
This document discusses the importance of teamwork in IT organizations and provides guidance on building effective teams. It begins by defining what constitutes a team and identifying characteristics of good team building. These include high interdependence, clear goals, trust among members, and defined roles. The document then discusses evaluating and improving team performance, handling conflicts, and creating a focused team that works collaboratively to achieve goals.
Team building refers to developing teamwork and bringing groups together to work towards common goals. It is essential for both managers and leaders to have team building skills to effectively manage teams. To build the right team, organizations should formulate activities to improve communication, ensure the team understands the purpose, and balance individual and team accomplishments while monitoring workplace changes. Fostering participation, trust, respect, communication, and rewarding accomplishments can help establish the right supportive culture.
The document discusses topics related to team building training, including Tuckman's model of team development, understanding team dynamics using the Johari Window model, giving and receiving feedback, and managing a team. It also defines what a team is, lists barriers to effective team building, and provides contact information for MMM Training Solutions, the training consultancy offering team building programs.
Know how effective team management can lead to successful team work, which in turn can ultimately lead to the successful organization http://bit.ly/ZZNmC2
Researchers at Google analyzed data from their own teams to identify five key traits of successful teams: psychological safety, dependability, structure and clarity, meaning of work, and impact of work. The document then provides tips for building these traits through fostering an organizational culture that promotes them and by holding regular professionally-led team building sessions that are engaging, meet business objectives, teach new skills, and are fun.
A team is a collection of individuals with different expertise brought together to achieve a common goal. Teams have advantages like access to interdisciplinary knowledge, diversity of perspectives, shared responsibility, and the ability to accomplish more than individuals. Effective teamwork requires trust, respect, communication, cooperation, and situational leadership where the person with relevant skills leads in a given situation. The stages of team development include forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. A surgical team was provided as an example of interdependent roles needed to successfully complete a medical procedure.
This document discusses several key factors that affect effective team communication and performance, including cohesiveness, conformity, competition/conflict, leadership, and steps to build an effective team. It explains that cohesiveness involves team members identifying with and feeling proud of their membership. It also lists several advantages of high cohesiveness. Conformity means team members abandon contrary positions in favor of majority views. Productive conflict through debating ideas can lead to more thorough decision making. Shared leadership and intellectual stimulation from leaders are discussed. Finally, steps to build an effective team include clarifying goals, roles, communication, and dealing with conflict.
Roshika Ram led a training on teamwork at NTPC Lecture Room on February 11th, 2015. The training aimed to define teams and teamwork, identify the benefits of teamwork in the workplace, recognize factors that weaken teams, and promote teamwork. Key points included that a team is a group working towards a common goal, teamwork requires individuals to prioritize the group over personal interests, and building effective teams requires clear expectations, good leadership, and communication.
Team building skills training can help address weaknesses, develop strengths, and create an environment where employees work collectively as a team to achieve organizational goals. Internal and cross-functional conflicts can divert focus from these goals, so team building activities connect employees across departments to promote rapport, enhance relationships, and improve communication and coordination between teams. When employees focus on team and organizational targets rather than just individual targets, it increases flexibility and the organization's ability to work as a single unit.
The 5 Stages of Group Development.
Forming
Storming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning
View video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzsQbJV2Aw
The development of groups over the lifespan of the group.
Tuckman’s Model – 5 Stages of Team Development and Practical Limitations: https://agile-mercurial.com/2019/04/16/tuckmans-model-5-stages-of-team-development-and-practical-limitations/
Why Teams Fail & 14 Success Factors for a TurnaroundDiane Boivie
The document discusses reasons why teams fail and success factors for improving team performance and turnarounds. It provides 10 reasons why teams fail, including disempowering leadership and lack of accountability. It also lists 10 ways to improve teamwork, such as aligning teams around goals and strategies. Additionally, the document outlines 14 success factors for team turnarounds, including factors related to productivity like leadership and resources, as well as positivity factors like trust and respect. The purpose is to help teams assess weaknesses and make improvements to enhance performance.
The document discusses the importance of creating great workplaces where employees feel engaged. It notes that most organizations are not truly great places to work, with high percentages of disengaged or stressed employees in many countries. The missing link is often the line manager and how they interact with and develop their employees on a daily basis. Practicing "Giftwork" through generous, unique, individualized, fitting interactions can help build the trust that is key to employee engagement. Doing small caring acts each day, even when busy, can make a difference in the workplace culture and employees' perception of their managers.
The document discusses the key differences between teams and groups. It notes that teams have shared leadership, interdependent roles, and both individual and group accountability and rewards. Groups have a clear leader and members perform independent jobs with individual accountability. Examples are provided of how teams improve organizational results by increasing employee involvement, reducing costs and absenteeism, and enhancing creativity and innovation.
Teamwork involves collaborative efforts of a team to achieve common goals efficiently. It is present in workplaces, sports, schools, and healthcare. Effective teamwork requires an adequate team size of 6-8 members, resources, and clearly defined roles. The importance of teamwork increased after World War II when organizations recognized its benefits from the Hawthorne studies. Teamwork improves efficiency, generates ideas, provides learning experiences, enhances communication, shares workloads, and creates support networks. Team dynamics describe how individual roles and behaviors impact the group. Leaders should understand team development phases, roles, define responsibilities, break down barriers, and focus on open communication to improve team dynamics.
The document discusses teams and teamwork in organizations. It defines a team as a group of people organized to work independently and cooperatively to achieve common goals and purposes. Effective teamwork is important in fields like nursing to ensure patient safety. The document also discusses factors that make teams effective or dysfunctional, and barriers to dysfunctional teams like lack of cooperation, respect for other's roles, and unwillingness to share skills. It emphasizes the importance of leadership, communication, and organizational behavior for successful teamwork.
I have seen “mega” projects succeed against all odds and I have seen “smallerscale” projects fail regardless of methodology or tools. I have separated these experiences and I have come to the conclusion that the critical success factor was not methodology or tools, but PEOPLE
By Dr. Rashid Alleem
Teamwork is defined as a group of people working together towards a common goal. The document discusses the benefits of teamwork, including increased work efficiency as tasks can be completed faster when shared among team members. Teamwork also provides increased learning opportunities as more experienced employees can teach skills to new employees. Working as a team leads to greater accountability as no individual wants to let other team members down.
Toyota has succeeded because of its team-oriented culture. Some key reasons are:
1) Team-oriented culture allows employees to understand their strengths and weaknesses to work well together.
2) It develops a more efficient system to complete tasks on time and increase productivity.
3) Working in teams allows employees to learn from each other and motivate better performance.
4) Strong team bonds create support during challenges and help the organization grow.
By the end of todays session student will able to;
Define and Differentiate group & team
Explain roll of team member
Discuss on the advantages of working in teams
Discuss the characteristics of effective team player and team
Explain the stages in team development life cycle
Evaluate and analyze managerial action
The document discusses strategies for building effective teams. It outlines 17 principles of teamwork, including the importance of problem solving, innovation, knowledge sharing, and relying on teammates. Effective teams comprise multi-skilled, engaged people willing to go the extra mile to help each other succeed. The document also discusses why teams fail, such as too many membership changes or a lack of trust, and advises team leaders to communicate well and develop team members' skills. High-performing teams work smoothly and effectively through forming, storming, norming, and performing stages of team development.
This document discusses effective team management. It defines a team and explains that teams are effective because they can achieve higher quality outcomes, higher efficiency, faster speed, and more thoughtful ideas than individuals working alone. Characteristics of effective teams include clear expectations, commitment, competence, collaboration, and communication. The document also discusses fostering team creativity, dealing with conflicts, and conducting team building exercises.
This document outlines the objectives and key concepts of a team building program. The 8 objectives are: understand the team concept; open communication lines; sharpen communication skills; learn techniques to build a better team; understand your role as a leader; sharpen goals, motivation and performance; understand team members and dynamics; and practice, discuss and problem solve. It then discusses what a team is, the importance of cooperation, communication and coordination among members, and factors that influence team morale like support, resources and communication.
Teamwork involves a group of people working together to accomplish a common goal. Effective teams value open communication, treat each other as equals, and collaborate by sharing information. Each member contributes their unique skills and perspectives to solve problems efficiently. When teams establish clear goals and meet regularly, they can complete long-term projects with ease by leveraging the strengths of individual members.
Lisa Beihoff assigment Organizational BehaviorLisaBeihoff
The document summarizes research on creating an effective team work environment. It identifies different types of teams, such as problem-solving teams, self-managed teams, cross-functional teams, and virtual teams. It discusses factors that determine team effectiveness, such as context, composition, process, and social factors. It provides recommendations for how to create effective teams, such as using cross-functional teams, setting clear expectations, ensuring commitment and competence, and emphasizing communication, collaboration, and accountability. The goal is to encourage engagement, creativity, and morale to improve performance.
This document provides an overview of team building and effective teamwork. It discusses the importance of teamwork in organizations and key principles of team building, including having a clear vision and goals, establishing trust among team members, and ensuring commitment to the team's purpose. The document also outlines factors that can strengthen or weaken teams, such as communication, leadership, and clarity of purpose. It provides guidance on assessing team effectiveness and addressing issues that can lead to poor performance.
Respond to 4 postings listed below, with at least in one or mormickietanger
Respond to
4 postings listed below
, with at least in one or more of the following ways:
• Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research.
• Share an insight from having read the postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
• Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from your own research
• Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
• Make suggestions based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
• Expand on postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Posts should be at least 200 words
and require
some information from the text, academically reviewed paper, some significant commentary that requires knowledge of the subject matter, a web link to an article or other source
.
POST 1:
Networking: A key to successful Teamwork
A. Consider the different teams presented in your reading assignment. How do these teams manage their team boundaries? What are the trade-offs between internal cohesion and external ties within each type of team? support your discussion with at least two external sources.
Teams are of different types such as Virtual teams, Problem-solving teams, cross-functional teams, self- managed teams but every team has to maintain their own boundaries to function up to the mark.
What are boundaries
Boundaries are the limitations, plans which meant for reducing distraction from outside sources and to increase the teams focus on their roles and responsibilities. They could be simple rules which are a part of the teams’ principles.
How to set boundaries
· Members need to work individually along with their team leader. Everyone of them need to understand as to what make them deviate from their works. Make a list of the important activities relating to their group project for which the team is formed and make a schedule by prioritizing their work according to their importance.
· This will help them to have an understanding of how to manage their work. Set short term and long-term goals so as to be responsible for completing the tasks.
· Remember that the boundaries can be breached. It is not possible that they will stay in place forever, sometimes the members may knowingly or unknowingly cross their boundaries.
· The team has to communicate with the other teams or members as to what extent they have set the boundaries. It will help them to have necessary support from others and they will be less disturbing to them (Guanfeng, & Zhiyang, 2011).
Internal cohesion and External ties
Internal cohesion has a positive relationship with the external ties. The level of internal cohesion defines the level of support and cooperation the members have with each other. If the cohesion is more it will not affect the members to outsource other expertise and necessary resources. B ...
The document discusses how to structure a cohesive work team. It identifies three key components for creating a cohesive work team: personality composition, group diversity, and leadership roles. Personality composition involves considering members' personalities and how they compatibility. Group diversity looks at cognitive diversity and differences in norms and beliefs. Leadership roles examines effective leadership strategies within teams. By addressing these three components, the document argues a cohesive work team can be created to achieve successful results.
The document discusses team building and how adventure-based activities can help unite groups and break down barriers. It describes how problem-solving, planning, and trust-building exercises done in an adventurous environment can improve communication and help colleagues work better together. The second part promotes a specific company, Beyond the Boardroom, that provides adventure tourism experiences to help teams achieve their goals and build leadership through challenging group activities.
This document discusses the importance of teamwork and interrelationships between tasks, people, and the work environment for achieving organizational goals. It defines a team and describes how teamwork allows goals to be accomplished that individual efforts cannot. The document then examines how organizational culture can support teamwork and provides examples of how companies have created cultures that foster collaboration, independence, and interdepartmental coordination to boost performance. It concludes that teamwork and strong interpersonal relationships are critical for an organization's success.
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I need help with preparing a web post and 3 responses. Post and responses are explained below:
Write a web post on Designing Team and Team Identity:
Part 1:
Think about how to build teams in terms of designing the task, selecting the people, and then, managing their relationships. How would compose a team for completing a course/work project in terms of the three dimensions listed above. How would you incorporate diversity in designing a team?
Part 2:
Discuss team identity. Why do you feel attached to certain groups and teams but not to others?
Important point about web post:
- Provide the references (at least 2) in your responses.
- Your post should be at least 450 words long.
Respond to following 3 postings. Responses should be 170 words with references.
Post 1:
1) Think about how to build teams in terms of designing the task, selecting the people, and then, managing their relationships. How would you compose a team for completing a course/work project in terms of the three dimensions listed above. How would you incorporate diversity in designing a team?
Building a team for a course/work project is very crucial for the success of the project and relies heavily on analyzing the goals of the project that you need to accomplish. Some of the main characteristics that are required to build a good team include:
· Stating the purpose of the project
· Charting out specific roles that can be assigned to the team members
· A leadership that is acceptable to the whole team
· Effective and seamless processes to avoid any bottle-necks in operations and communication
· Healthy relationships between the members of the team
Understanding the meaning and purpose of building teams gives us a good starting point on how to compose a team for your project (Drolet, 2004). The main purpose of group is to accomplish the set objectives for a project in the most efficient way possible. I would choose a team that consists of members that have particular skillsets that align to the necessary objectives that are to be accomplished to have a successful finish. Another important task is to elect a leadership that is both competent in carrying out the responsibility and also be acceptable to the team to follow the directions of the leader. The last and most important aspect is to manage operations in a way that all the team members feel inclusive, realize their responsibility and always stay motivated to work in the best interests of the team towards the completion of the project (Harvey, 2004). While building the team, I would consider all the above characteristics in mind and to incorporate the right diversity, I would choose talent and hard work as a key factor that aligns with the interests of the project to accomplish the set goals in the most efficient way possible.
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2. Table of Content
S. no DESCRIPTIONS PAGE no.
1 Abstract 3
2 Introduction 4
3 Definitions 5
4 Literature review 6
5 Theories 22
6 Critical analysis 24
7 Conclusion 25
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ABSTRACT
Teamwork plays an vital part to make the performance of an organization efficient and
successful. Teamwork need participation of every single person who is a part of that specific
team. Forming a good team is not an easy task. It require a lot of intellectual ability. And
once a team is formed than it is necessary to guide your team mates and try to keep them
together in order to achieve your specific goal. Goal can only be achieved from good team
work, which is not possible until and unless there is a bonding in the team mates and they
don’t realize their duties regarding to their work. Best team work can be done by making a
best team and making your team best is not an easy task. Once a team is formed and it has
reached to the final stage of the achievement of goal it is the example of best team work.
Because getting to the final goal can only be done with a good team work.
4. INTRODUCTION
A team can be defined as a group of people with a full set of corresponding skills required to
complete a task, job or project. Not only this, but there must be some common goal shared by
teams and individual However there is a big difference between a group and a team. The
main difference between a group and a team is the commonality of goals and objectives. A
team has some goals which are shared by all of the team members, but this is not always
present in a group.
Teamwork is defined as a process which involves collaboration of a group of people in order
to achieve a goal. It is basically the capability to work together for a common purpose.
Teams give the advantage to work more professionally as a collaborative force in order to
achieve the goal. Teamwork provides range of ideas during the time of decision making as
every team member participates and offers his/her idea with a different frame of reference.
Teamwork offers a positive criticism from all of the members which put in effective
performance of the team members as well as the assessment of the task and performance.
Teamwork has the potential of turning defeats into successes. It is the teamwork which make
possible the ordinary people to achieve unexpected goals.
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DEFINITIONS OF TEAM WORK
1) According to Jared Lewis team work can be defined as:
“Teamwork is a word that is often thrown around in the business world. However, what
exactly is meant by the actual term "teamwork" may differ from one business to the next or
even from one person to the next. The difficulty in establishing a definition for the term stems
from the fact that it actually consists of several facets”
2) Teamwork is defined by Scarnati (2001, p. 5)
“As a cooperative process that allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results.”
3) Larson and laFato (1989) defined team work as:
“A unit of two or more people who interacts and co-ordinates their works to accomplish a
specific goal.”
4) Kogler-hill defines teams as:
“Organizational groups composed of members who are independent, who shares commons
goals, and who must co-ordinates their activities to accomplish these goals”
5) Katzenbach and Smith give in the Discipline of Teams: a Mindbook-Workbook for
Delivering Small Group Performance
“A small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common
purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves manually
accountable”
6) Francis and Young define a team as a
“High-performing task group whose members are actively interdependent and share common
performance objectives"
7) Joy and Joy define a team as
"A group of individuals, bonded together, striving to achieve a common purpose through
mutual cooperation"
8) Maginn defines a team as
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"a group of people working together to reach a goal that they all believe in and that would
be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve by people working alone"
9) Sanborn's definition (Team built: Making Teamwork Work)
"A highly communicative group of people with different backgrounds, skills, and abilities
with a shared sense of mission and clearly identified goals.”
10) Cohen et al. Defined agent teamwork as
“A set of agents having a shared objective and a shared mental state”,
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LITERATURE REVIEW
1. THE POWER OF TEAM WORK
This article is written by MAGGIE CRADDOCK. Written in September 26, 2011 the article
narrates the concept of establishing each members personal power style. How to motivate
others is a actual quality, but experiencing the situation within your team members encourage
the spirit of trust.
In this article the participants started to make a role play so that they can understand the
habitual responses of challenges. Power styles encourage other members to know about the
situation in order to deal with it. We have to adopt the certain power styles like the (pleaser,
the charmer, the commander, and the inspirer) so we can handle the situation more
courageously.
What the participants did that they gave each other an advice on how to approach tricky
situations at a given rate of performance through the learning of power styles, the bond of
trust gradually increases. It gives us a lesson to appreciate the value of each other's power,
styles, only then the spirit of team flourishes beyond the collaboration. This technique really
helped them. It increases their confidence and the professionalism takes over. Thus the
women of the coaching group got promoted.
Building up trust is difficult, but to discover the other power styles and how they interact in
various situations can be a learning experience for everyone.
2. BETTER TEAMWORK THROUGH BETTER WORKPLACE
DESIGN
This article is written by ANAT LECHNER in April 18, 2012. She is a professor of business
management at the STERN school of business. New York University, she teaches, conducts
research and consults in the areas of organizational design and change. Including new forms
of collaboration.
The article is all about collaboration. In 2008 research was conducted and 82 % said that
they needed to partner with others throughout the day to get their work done. Collaboration
now days have become a true challenge for everyone. The writer clearly emphasized on I K
does not matter, YOU AND I WORK matters. He highlighted that individuals cannot give up
their very best, until they are not in a team. As individual workstations separate people from
one another.
Employees should have unassigned individual workstation. Free flowing hallways, rooms
equipped with technology and group spaces for co-creation. Collaborative work happens only
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when people share their ideas, thoughts and problems with each other, and take decisions or
solve matters cooperatively. It also involves the knowledge exchange, brain storming and etc.
A team room can provide “COGNITIVE SPACE “to hold ideas and experiences.
Companies like CICSO, SKYPE AND PIXAR have already developed clearly designed work
environments to best enable new value creation through collaboration.
3. THE DISCIPLINE OF TEAMS
The article is written by JOHN R. KATZENBACH AND DOUGLAS K. SMIT and taken
from July issue. He is a founder and co-leader of the KATZENBACH center at booz and
company. Which focuses on cultural and leadership joint research within client situations.
The article is all about the decisions taken by teams, that they should be clear . He describes
teams as a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a
common purpose. He discuss the four elements (common commitment , performance goals,
complementary skills and mutual accountability) He defined that people relate team work
with groups so he mentioned that both are entirely different from one other, he differentiate
them like :
Team work Groups
Shared leadership roles Clearly focused leader
Individual and mutual accountability Individual accountability
Collective work products Individual work products
Does real work together Discuss individually
He also declare that team should have a urgent and worthwhile purpose, select members for
skill and skill potential , not personality, initial impressions, clear rules of behavior,
immediate performance oriented tasks, challenges of groups, spending lots of time together.
Positivity is essential for the teams to work because it makes the team GOLD stars .
Teamwork is only possible when we divide our broad categories into specific measurable
performance. Specific goals allow a team to achieve small wins as it follows the broader
purpose. Good t communication skills are highly recommended for the growth of teams.
Team work involves technical expertise, problem solving skills and interpersonal skills.
4. THE HARD SCIENCE OF TEAMWORK
The article is written by ALEX SANDY PENTLAND on march20, 2012. He briefly explains
the power of teamwork with the help of scientific behavior. He gave importance on the
substance of teams, communication, that how people communicate ( tone of voice,
gesticulation, how one faces others in the group, how much people talk and listen ). He
focuses on how you say it, not on what you say.
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According to him this really matters for the sake of empowering teams. They made electronic
sensors called sociometric badges. From this he can predict that whether a team will perform
well or not , and with a high rate of success, whether or not team members will report they
have a productive or creative day and it will be based on the data collected from the
sociometric badges .
Many people are uncomfortable with this because they thought that people who naturally
display the good communication patterns will WIN and any one not blessed with this talent
will drag a team down, but he verifies himself by telling people that this pattern of
communication are highly trainable.
He demonstrates people should feel empowered by the idea of a science of team building.
The idea which they can alter the guess work of putting a team together into a accurate
methodology.
5. KEEPING WORK ORGANIZED WHEN YOUR TEAM IS
FRAGMENTED
This article is written by BRAD POWER. In February 7, 2013.
It is all about that the companies increasingly use outside specialists to do their work. Only
for the improvement in performance, they actually face two tradeoffs, the first is greater
costs, outside specialists can be expensive. The second is increased risk of coordination and
integration.
There are certain steps that we use to organize a fragmented team of internal and external
people to improve the custom experience.
1. Create a shared purpose and end-to end process map: it indicates that the members should
gather the key stake holders of a process in a multi day workshop to map the current and
future process, implementation plan and etc.
2. To introduce new software's so that retailers do not rely on phone , emails and faxes.
Software can provide managers with visibility and control of inventory from the order to a
store shelf.
3. Create an online community for your process team: Social networking systems offer a new
way to support process teams across organizational boundaries and they fabricate a new
mobile application MITRE it was distributed to front-line soldiers, who then gave rapid
feedback on the product through Handshake.
6. GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR TEAM
It is written by NANCY KATZ taken from September 2001. As companies depend more and
more on teams to accomplish key tasks, optimizing each member’s performance becomes a
critical challenge. Team members with weak skills can compromise overall productivity or
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place unfair burdens on high performers. So what can managers do to improve the
performance of less-skilled team members is , they must encourage them not only the desire
to improve but also the belief that they can. Furthermore, managers must find ways to
increase the possibility that people with greater skills will help their teammates become more
proficient One practical way to promote both goals is through the design of team
compensation structures.
To test how pay schemes affect the ability gap in teams, she conducted a study of 100
participants in an interactive recreation, exercise called Bolo, which has been used by U.S.
Army research Institute psychologists, among others, to study collaboration and team
behavior patterns. In this study, the participants were separated into 3 three- or 4 member
team, each of which was rough against a computer-guided enemy. Each team operated under
one of five different compensation structures, but all had the same goal to beat the enemy by
capturing as many refueling bases as possible. The game provided opportunities for team
members to both cooperate with and compete against one another.
She conducted a hybrid scheme named as : Individual threshold , group threshold, the
relative ratio. When a team’s work results in a quantifiable, tangible outcome; when
members’ roles are not highly differentiated, so it’s easy to compare individual performance
levels, when high-skilled workers cannot simply carry the rest of the team and when there is
enough time for highly skilled members to teach their less-skilled employees. In the right
situation, such schemes can all together encourage low-performing team members to improve
their skills and encourage more highly skilled members to help them in this effort, thereby
reaping the benefits of two fundamentally different approaches to structuring compensation
equality and equity.
7. SIX COMMOM MISPERCEPTIONS ABOUT TEAM WORK
In this article Richard Hackman is talking about the six common misperception about team
works. The first misperception that we think that smooth interaction between the
collaborators saves from time wasting debates. Where in actual groups which are involved in
conflicts tends to generate more creative solutions to the problems as compared to the conflict
free groups. The other misperception is that it is good to mingle and new members must be
added to the group so .While in reality the more the group members stays together the more
the bond between them get stronger and they can work easily with each other. The third
misperception is that the groups must be larger in size because they will have more resources
and the chances of their disapproval will be decreased. Where in reality the larger groups,
mostly face inactive coordination and it is difficult and challenging to handle larger groups.
There is another misperception that face to face conversation is old fashioned and the teams
should use electronic technologies for communication purpose. Well, this is not true face to
face communication is much better than the visual communication. The other misperception
is that whatever the result of the performance of the teamwork is the leader will always be the
reason. In actual the performance of the leader does affect the activity of the team, but the
best a leader can do is that he can set some limits for his team members, he can launch his
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team in the best way he can and then he can coach them and guide them how to complete
their task to achieve their goal. At last it is believed that the teamwork can be easily done by
finding good people to make a team and then assign them the task they can do better .Well, it
is not true teams are made after a lot of thinking and great decisions and you cannot form a
team and make your team work without a little bit political moves.
8. MAKING VIRTUAL TEAMS WORK (TEN BASIC PRINCIPLES)
In this article the writer Michael Watkins has given ten basic principles to make virtual
teams work, as virtual teams have become a fact of our business life so he has proposed ten
principles to make them work efficiently. 1) The first one is that try to get your team together
so that they can get to know each other better. If it is not possible to get them together
physically use virtual team building strategy. But if you can get them together physically than
go for it as it will be good for them to gather on a same platform and share their ideas with
each other and communicate 2) the leaders must make it clear to the team members that what
are the goals of the company and what their tasks are built in virtual teams it is sometimes a
challenging because team members are not co-located, so the important thing is to focus on
task design and make a process that will be used to complete the task. Before assigning the
task firstly simplify it and then divide the task into subgroups of two to three members. 3)
The third principle he gave is that we should create a communication charter. As in virtual
communication we do not have any idea that how much the person is involved in the
communication and how much he is interested, so teams should set a communication charter
like, in which time communication will take place, how much background noise should be
there when a person should reply via email or phones etc. 4) the third principle is to select the
best communication technology. It does not mean that we should use the newest and latest
technology, but it means that we should use the technology which is best and which will save
the time will not create obstacles during the communication of the team. 5) The fifth principle
is that we have to keep our team in rhythm. Regular meetings must be scheduled and before
conducting the meetings the agenda of meetings should be cleared. 6) The sixth principle is
that the language which is being used should be understood by all the team members. As all
the team members belong to different cultures, so those words should be used that are easily
understood by the team members. 7) The seventh principle he proposed is to create a virtual
water cooler. It means to start your virtual meetings with informal talks like what are you
doing, how your work going etc. to lighten up the environment. 8) Clarify and track your
commitments leaders should always complete his promise that he has made to his team
members. So that his team members can show trust on their leader. 9) Try to provide “push”
to your team. Try to involve everyone so that everyone will be engaged and there will be less
burden on your shoulders. 10) Interact one to one of your team members regularly and
provide them your guide views and coach them on their task.
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9. MANAGE YOUR TEAM'S COLLECTIVE TIME
The article is written by Leslie A. Perlow. In this article the author is talking about how to
manage your team’s collective time. The author worked in the Boston consulting group to
find some innovative ways to enhance the performance of the team workers. They did an
experiment that they give a weeknight to every employee out of the office to spend
completely unplugged from the office work. Initially they give four teams off, but then they
give this weeknight off in ten groups and the result was positive. And the employees showed
more interest towards their work. They had higher job satisfaction and better work and life
balance. Later on this method was applied to more than 77 companies and the result was
according to the expectations. Later he discussed how to create “enhanced productivity” days.
The authors studied three different teams of a same organization. The teams were working on
a same task, but they were in three different time zones.. He categorized workers in three
different ways. One who can handle their work life and personal life they meet the inflexible
time limit of their tasks and they are known for their extra efforts. The second one are those
who cannot manage their time and work till the time of submitting and they have a lot of
burden on them and they are not known for their extra efforts. The third one are those who,
having the ability to do their work on time, but due to their laziness, they do not do it on time
and take their work to home. They use their time to relieve their stress by chit chat including
meeting free time
10.TURN YOUR GROUP INTO A TRUE TEAM
Team work are praise enthusiastically, but are groups considers as a team? According to
Linda Hill and Kent Lineback “not every group is a team.” A team is a group of people who
work together and are bounded towards a common belief; and without any goal they cannot
do anything. But sometimes the managers are unable to lead the groups collectively and
began focusing on individual performance rather than teams. If he fails to assign them tasks
the team cannot be fully focused and will get distracted.
They should share a passion that the team will succeed or fail together, and that no individual
can accomplish something while the team fails. They come to rely on each other rather than
dealing things their own way. With these things not in place they are considered as a group
not as a team. But on the other hand mangers should not ignore the individual for their efforts
because things like that can become problems for organizations.
11.THE SECERT SAUCE OF TEAMWORK
In this article the author Heath Hall and Brett Thompson talk the importance of team work.
He tells about Jack Daniels world championship invitational barbecue competition. Their
team is pork barrel BBQ also the name of the sauce they are entrepreneur too. According to
the pork barrel BBQ, they said that have won and accomplish many thing but as a teams and
they have learn their weakness and strength. According to Henry Ford, there are three stages.
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For coming together as a team they must share some common goal and must know how to
achieve its goal. Their motto was “Reward Lives in the House of Risk.” It reminds them that,
there a many team in this competition so they have to give their best in order to achieve their
goals.
For staying together they have to make out the strength and weakness of their members, how
to complement each other work with coordinating. Last is working together those members
who know their role and strength need to work with together with the team to produce and
effective result.
In the end coming together, staying together, working together these are the ingredients of a
winning barbecue teams secret sauce.
12.WHY SOME TEAMS SUCCEED (AND SO MANY DON’T)
This article by Harvard management tells us about how some teams succeed and why some
do not. Team members can act as a team only if they know to achieve their goals. For that
managers need to maintain a balance act, as of how teams should work, gave them equal
authority.
According to tom ruddy, former manager at Xerox if the teams get bigger “They need a
manger to guide them no matter how successful the team is.” They must be trained how to
work as a team has learned how to communicate and stay focused on the task. But that could
only happen when they work together as a team learns to rely on each other. Those who fail
to his can cause a problem for their organization as people tend to rely on teams and they do
not give a productive outcome.
A team cannot be successful without their company supports. The managers need to give his
full support to the team make all resources available to them. On this basis every team must
be awarded equally because an individual reorganization may lead to conflicts within the
team and that would be an example of unsuccessful team.
13.WHY TEAMS DON'T WORK
In this article Diane Cote senior editor at HBR did an interview with the author of Leading Teams, J.
Richard Hackman, in this article they talk about how the team can produce more effective and original
result of their cooperation and coordination, but according to Hackman, he says many times the team
don’t agree on one thing and have a different view of things, but that’s not always the case.
In their book “senior leadership team” they analyzed top 120 teams which don’t have any clear view
and that result in dysfunctional teams. Not everyone should be the team, because that can cause
trouble for other members or organization. Every team needs some sort of direction.. Hackman said
that give direction might get challenged for leaders and manager because some might not agree with
them.
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Next he talks about fallacies about the teams that is people thinks that those teams that work together
pleasantly will do better than the team that don’t that not the case. And those who think bigger teams
are better that small one, those teams can be quite challenging to handle. He also said old members of
the group are likely to make mistake.
Every team is effective but sometimes leaders can’t make every team successful.But even a
best leader cannot make the team do well, but with coaching, support and direction it might
do well. And set up training to develop the right people for the right purpose. That will
improve team’s performance and work. But the manager need to balance out there and
individual performance so they cannot become totally lost and lose their voices.
14.WHEN TEAMS CAN'T DECIDE
In this article by Bob Frish, he talks about the difficulties while making a decision. Many
times the team can’t come to a conclusion, which results in the CEO making a last design.
Most of the time the employee of the company doesn’t see eye to eye with their boss Bob
Fresh calls this phenomenon the dictator-by-default syndrome. To overcome this problem
many companies use team-building exercise, but the problems are with the process not the
employee. They cannot arrive at a collective decision with individual preference.
They first need to acknowledge the problem. They when deciding on a solution they need to
eliminate the options because the then CEO get involved. Once they understand what is the
trouble, they can set some strategy to overcome it. They must really understand what is the
goal and how to seek a solution for it. Or think up of new option instead of establishing one
while making decision. The author gives two ground rules, in which first they have to build
trust within each other and second they must give time to weigh each option so they can
make their decision
15.GETTING CROSS-CULTURAL TEAMWORK RIGHT
In this article the author, TsedalNeele talks about global teamwork if there is no
understanding between the teammates, then no matter what their efforts will fail. There are
three ways that author thinks they can negotiate cross-cultural team work. First, these global
teammates have to learn from each other their names, value they have to understand their
teammate’s cultural values. Be vocal about the differences so employees can relate to each
other.
Many teams collaborating with cross culture sometime find it is confusing and frustrating to
accept another culture belief and values for that they have to think like them. For mutual
understanding, sometimes they have to let go of their own assumption and accept them. And
while accepting their culture you can make them learn yours. So both can be familiar with
each other culture background and can find a common ground to work with each other.
16.HARD TIMES DEMAND TEAMWORK – NOT AN MVP
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This article was written by Tammy Erickson on August 28 2008.It tells about the
responsibility of managing tasks. During times of difficulty the demand of teamwork
increases. Groups make better decisions than individuals because there is more honesty and
reliability in teamwork so certain roles for leaders have been assigned.
Asking great questions to challenge organization to meet the targets and the goals that are
complex and important. Building deep trust and relationship in the organization. This
increases collaboration and encourages knowledge exchange. Bringing in new people, ideas
and also taking them seriously.
17.MAKING DIVERSE TEAMS CLICK
This article was written by Jeffrey T. Polzer in 2008. It says that in teamwork 360 degree
feedback is important and also helpful. Through 360 degree feedback members achieve
proper goals and targets. Ideas can easily be exchanged which widens communication. 360
degree feedback improves team communication and problem solving. It also helps build trust
and relationship. Receiving and sharing 360 degree feedback can be strong enough to solve
problems.
18.GETTING VIRTUAL TEAMS RIGHT
This article was written by Keith Ferrazzi in December 2008. It says that companies that are
doing business in distantly places and having more no of employees telecommuting are on
the grow. It makes them challenging for isolated teammates to communicate and collaborate.
But evidence suggests that if virtual teams are well managed, they can easily perform well.
Consultants at Ferrazzi Greenlight believe that four elements are crucial for success:
The right team. Assembling qualified people who can work independently, keeping the
group size small and dividing the work fittingly for the right team.
The right leadership. Effective managers build trust, encourage open communication
and set clear goals for the true leadership.
The right touch points. Virtual teammates should have face-to-face communication
from time to time. This is especially useful when projects are assigned, a new
employee is allotted and problems arise, in order to get rid of the problems the right
touch points are required.
The right touch points. Virtual teammates should have face-to-face communication
occasionally. This is especially useful when projects are assigned, a new employee is
appointed and problems arise in order to get solved so the right touch points are
required.
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The right technology. Maximizing productivity by installing easy-to-use systems for
conference calling, sending text messages, and participating in online discussion
forums so the right technology is required.
19.LIFT OUTS: HOW TO ACQUIRE A HIGH-FUNCTIONING
TEAM
This article was written by Marshall Goldsmith on October 1, 2007. It tells about the simple
steps to improve teamwork and coordination with the team.
Firstly, in a team meeting suggest each team member’s rating performance through average
evaluation. Secondly, is by assessing each team member’s behavior to improve teamwork and
listing them on a flip chart. Thirdly, each team member should conduct meetings with other
team members to help improve teamwork. Lastly by having a regular monthly process in
which team members ask other members for behavioral improvement.
20.TEAM BUILDING WITHOUT TIMEWASTING
This article was written by Marshall Goldsmith on October 1, 2007. It tells about the simple
steps to improve teamwork and coordination with the team.
Firstly, in a team meeting suggest each team member’s rating performance through average
evaluation. Secondly, is by assessing each team member’s behavior to improve teamwork and
listing them on a flip chart. Thirdly, each team member should conduct meetings with other
team members to help improve teamwork. Lastly by having a regular monthly process in
which team members ask other members for behavioral improvement.
21.HOW TO MAKE A TEAM WORK
This article was written by Maurice Hardaker and Bryan K. Ward on November 1987. It tells
about PQM (Process Quality Management) which has been successfully used by service
companies, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Certain strategies have been
implemented by PQM.
Gather the Team:- Teams can be a set of certain individuals from various segments of the
company.
Understand the mission:- PQM’s mission is to develop clear understanding of the team’s
mission which is jointly important. This mission defines the limitations of the business and
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the customer population. Teams that have defined their clear objective and targets can
identify its critical success factors (CSFs).
Spell out your goals:-It defines CSF’s as a team that must get done to achieve its mission.
The management team must achieve all seven CSFs over the next two years. The maximum
number of CSF’s is eight and if the mission continues to exist four is the limit.
Find what matters most :- Recognize and list down what needs to be done so that the
company can meet up its CSF’s. The management team has agreed on the sub goals to
complete the task that must be done to achieve the goals. Such activities need the team’s
concentration if the company needs to get better market share.
Follow through :- PQM needs to make a decision according to the nature of the problem. All
kinds of things can modify a company’s mission and objectives such as government,
challengers, restructuring and new technology. When the CSF’s change the position also
changes.
22.CANDOR, CRITICISM, TEAMWORK
People normally avoid giving honest feedbacks in formal settings, However they feel more
comfortable in private conversations.
The behavior should not be too straight forward nor it should be too polite because both
results in slow decision making or strict workplace respectively. Every participant should
behave and participate according to the requirements of the situation.
The teams interviewed sic banks to analyze their level of condor. They found that the teams
with a high level of candor were more successful than the other teams.
Organizational culture plays an important role in building a candid behavior of employees.
Three techniques to help coworkers interact more directly:
1) Breakdown meetings into smaller groups to make the team workers more comfortable
and confident to share their views and assign a leader who can talk on behalf of them.
2) Designate an advocate for the teams who will notice and speak up when something is
being left unsaid.
3) Give negative feedback in such a way that it does not hurt anyone.
Leaders should embrace candid behavior in order to encourage collaboration and free
participants for all employees.
23.FOR GREAT TEAM WORK , START WITH A SOCIAL
CONTRACT
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To make great teams the most powerful step is to form a social contract with sets ground
rules for the team members. The social contract outlines the norms for how member should
interact with one another.
Social contract reinforces positive behavior and ensures a culture of trust, encouragement,
respect, accountability and achievement. The sense of shared purpose leads to the
remarkable growth of the company.
The social contract should reflect the majority of the group’s sentiments, What is good for the
team? And what is not? What should the team keep doing, start doing or stop doing in order
to achieve its goals.
The Social contract should include positive behaviors to encourage the team such as being
honest, helping each other and cooperate with each other rather than compete.
When crafting a social contract one should keep in mind that the social contract may seek to
reduce negative behaviors, for example, we can use phrases like “Don’t speak negatively
about other employees in their absence.”
The social contract has many positive benefits such as giving employees a feeling of control
and security in their relationships with the leader and team mates. It also puts a bond of trust
between the team members.
Researchers indicate that the violation of social contracts can lead to employee dissatisfaction
with can lower the trust of team mates as well as the leader.
But the most important to keep in mind is that the leader should model the behavior desired
in the social contract.
24.GET YOUR TEAM TO STOP FIGHTING AND START
WORKING
The experts always say that despite the fact that conflict is unhealthy for a team, there should
be conflict in a group and there is no way to permanently eliminate conflicts but how we
tackle them is all that is needed.
The first step to tackle a conflict within a team is to stop it before it even starts. Jeanne Brett
professor of dispute resolution advises to make preparations before the disagreements come
up. To have solid conflict management procedures is the best way to deal with disputes. This
will help you work through issues more quickly when they arise.
Another important thing to do is to ensure that you and your team share the same purpose,
values and identity. The best way to do it is to make the team talk about the team itself and
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regularly discuss the purpose and goals of the team. The group should even start every
meeting by reading aloud the team norms so that they all have the same frame of reference.
The best approach to resolve conflicts is to refer back something the team can or already has
agreed on. If you haven’t discussed norms as a team, now will be a good time to hold the
conversation.
Never frame the discussion around a dispute, but focus on setting the rules and move
forward. As a team leader you should always respect each party and their point of views and
whatever the decision you make, it should be in the interest of both parties.
The best way to heal conflicts is to start working again. Give the team a relatively easy task
that will help them to rebuild their bond and confidence as a team.
Never let the conflicts go unattended as a team leader is the key to success.
24.THE NEW SCIENCE OF BUILDING GREAT TEAMS
The tasks involved in building great teams are clear-cut and easy to monitor. Team building
has always been an art, not a science. At MIT’s human dynamics laboratory, we have
identified the elusive group dynamics that characterize high-performing teams – those
blessed with the energy , creativity, and shared commitment to go ahead of other teams.
Communication is the factor which takes a team to the next level. The key to high
performance lay not in the content of team discussions, but in the manner in which teams
communicate. Researchers say that the communication plays a critical role in building
successful teams. In fact, they found patterns of communication to be the most important
predictor of a team’s success. Such as the tone of voice they use; whether they face one
another; how much they gesture; how much they talk, listen and interrupt; and even their
levels of extroversion and empathy. By comparing all that data we can identify that these are
the communication patterns that makes the teams successful.
The successful teams share several defining characteristics:
1) Everyone on the team talks and listens in roughly equal measure, keeping
contributions short and sweet
2) Members face one another and their conversations and gestures are energetic.
3) Members connect directly with one another – not just with their team leaders.
4) Members carry on back channel or side conversations within the team.
5) Members periodically break, go exploring outside the team, and bring the information
back.
The three key elements of communication:
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1) Energy
2) Engagement
3) Exploration
These three aspects of communication are the ones that affect team performance, i.e how
much energy you have, your level of engagement and the your exploration level. The most
valuable form of communication is face to face. It also provides a good rough measure of
energy. When all members of a team have relatively equal and reasonably high energy with
all other members, the engagement level is said to be extremely strong. Exploration essence
is the energy between a team and the other teams it interacts with.
Exploration and engagement don’t really coexist, because they require that the energy of
team members be put to two different uses.
HOW TO APPLY DATA:
For management tasks that have long defied objective analysis, like team building, data can
now provide a foundation on which to build better individual and team performance. This
happens in three steps.
Step 1: Visualization.
Step 2: Training
Step 3: Fine tuning performance
Switching the team members and bringing in new blood may be the best way to improve the
energy and engagement of the team. We can also measure individuals against an ideal. In
both productivity-focused and creativity-focused teams, we have discovered the data
signature of what we consider the best type of team member. They’re not necessarily
extroverts, although they feel comfortable approaching other people. They listen as much as
or more than they talk and are usually very engaged with whomever they’re listening to. We
call it energized ,but focused listening. The best team players, also connect their teammates
with one another and spread ideas around.
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THEORIES
There are numerous teamwork theories all with features to commend them, but how do you
decide which might help in getting teams to work effectively? Of all the theories the theory of
the Star Team Model and Tuckman’s theory are the most famous and implemented. We have
selected Tuckman’s theory of team work because it explains briefly the working of a team
from the initial stage of forming team to the last stage of performing.
TUCKMAN’S THEORY OF TEAM WORK
FORMING - STORMING - NORMING - PERFORMING
In 1965 Bruce Tuckman developed a model of teamwork. It is one of the most known
theories and it has become the basis of many ideas since it is formed. Tuckman’s theory
briefly describes the way in which a team is formed and completes its task.
Basically Tuckman’s theory describes the challenges that a team faces from its creation to the
completion of the task that is given to the team.
From the formation of team to the completion of the task the model contains four steps.
These are
1. Forming
2. Storming
3. Norming
4. Performing
Forming
Forming is the first stage. In this stage the leader is defining the goals, aims and objectives of
the team. The team members are not clear with their roles and responsibilities and are totally
dependent upon their leader. The leader must direct his team members; he must be ready to
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answer their questions in detail and should clear their doubts. As the team members do not
know each other so they do not trust one another.
In this stage time is spent in planning, collecting information and allocating task.
Storming
In this stage the team members are interacting with each other, trying to know each other and
giving their ideas. Here conflict may arise as the team members are not well aware of each
other so different ideas may collapse. The relation between the team members may get better
or worse. In this step it is necessary that the leader of the team has A strong personality.
Otherwise, it will be difficult for him to cope through different ideas and conflicts. And he
may be forced to follow the process that is not very effective for the completion of the task,
but he selected just to save his team from destruction.
Norming
The third stage is the Norming stage. In this stage the team is setting their limitations and
agreeing to the rules and values which they will follow.
Here the team members start to trust each other as they have spent some time together
interacting with each other. The team members know their responsibilities and duties, now
they have started working to achieve their task. Now the leader can take a step back as the
team members have taken their responsibilities.
Performing
Here team members are united and are performing their task. The team members encourage
each other. There is respect in communication between each team member and have built
trust. It is considered as a big achievement because not all teams can get to this stage of
performing. The level of the team’s performance is measured by the high level of
independence, collaboration and motivation.
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS
According to Amy, C. Edmondson “by putting the right person at the right place according to
his/her expertise and by giving them free time to interact with each other to build trust
companies can achieve their goals.”
J. Richard also supported Amy c. Edmondson’s point of spending time together by saying
that “the working with team results in achievement of tasks more efficiently as compared to
the individual working”.
However, Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith also suggests team must spend their
quality time with each other as he said in his article “Team members must communicate
before and after their work hours”
On the other hand Leslie A. Perlow is not in favors of teams spending a lot time together by
saying “teams that spend a lot of time together and work extra hours do not get rewarded and
in result the company face high turnover rate”.
Furthermore J. Richard said it is a misperception that a larger team means larger resources
that will lead to achievement of tasks more efficiently.
Paradoxically Jeanne Brett denied the fact of J. Richard and said that “resources depend upon
the size of the team, but, no matter the team, depending smaller or larger all upon the skills
and abilities of team members”
But Michael Watkins said “to get benefits from team members the company must engage
talented people so that they bring out something astonishing”.
Ironically, Amy Gallo spot with the Jeanne Brett’s point and he said that “the secret of
teamwork is not only to give them the basic knowledge but also guide them correctly. And
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the leader should engage them through political direction so that the team can perform well
and they produce something successfully.”
So concluding this all, team members must be allowed to spend their time together in order to
know each other, but spending too much time can cause conflicts, the employees working
extra hours without any rewards can cause employee dissatisfaction with the company. Also
the larger teams mean that there will be no shortage of resources. But how good a team can
perform depends on the skills and ability of the team members.
CONCLUSION
Most of the employees in an organization are likely to be a part of any team one way or
another. These teams may be formal or informal .Through well organized teamwork the
organization can be turned into a place where productivity is improving. It also helps in keep
self-esteem of the employees high and give them credit in the group.In addition, the
Tuckman’s theory of teamwork helps in understanding the basics of form and manage a team
successfully.