This document discusses why teams often fail to achieve their goals and what elements are needed for successful teamwork. It analyzes the failure of Ghana Airways due to a lack of consistent leadership and frequent changes in management. Successful teams require clear goals, strong and consistent leadership, small sizes for better coordination, and a collaborative environment where members are accountable. The document also provides steps to build and lead effective teams, such as defining responsibilities and rewards to encourage collaboration over competition.

1. By: Group C9
Adig
Dikshant
Sachdeva
Nikhil Hazari
Sakshi Jain
Sanchit Goel
Vikramaditya
Why Don’t Teams Work Like
They’re Supposed to ?
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Organization

2. Case Summary
 Even teams with highly motivated, skilled and committees
members – Fail to achieve
 According to Prof. Richard Hackman – failure to establish
groundwork leads to such ineffectiveness
 Failure of Ghana Airways
 Frequent changes in top management
 Disruption in establishing consistent leadership teams
40 year old air carrier; once an emblem and now
bankrupt
 Having a good team and effort can generate magic but
one should not blindly count on it

3. Elements of Successful Teamwork
 Teams should be kept small because
 Better Coordination
 Less Politics
 Well knit group of individuals
 Consistent leadership to minimize type of coordination
tasks
 Each team member has a different attitude towards authority
 Good team leader understands and handles efficiently
 Avoiding continuous reconfiguration of teams without trust
building
 Frequent changes cause the new member to face problem in
adjusting

4.  Strategic vision and turbulence tackling capacity
 A team without vision
 No Goal to strive for
 Is directionless and inefficient
 Team is not less than sum of parts
 Collaborate together rather than complete individual tasks
 Clearly define group responsibilities and group rewards
 Motto – One for all and all for one
 Team Responsibilities, Team prize and Team punishment
 Assertive and Courageous Leader
 Can invoke authority even when team resists direction.
 Direct the group of talented individuals in a desired direction towards
Elements of Successful Teamwork

5. Conditions for effective team
 Clarity of the common goal
and purpose
 Attention to conflicts when
they arise
 Allowing Team members for
their inputs in the work
 Sense of Joint responsibility
and commitment
 Environment that promotes
collaboration

6.  Scenario
 Assemble and Lead a Team of New Hires
 Avoid Problems Identified previously
 Enhance Individual Accountability within the Group
 Steps to ensure Team Stability and Efficiency
 Team building Activities – Entire Group = Single Entity
 Condition workshops to prepare for High Pressure situations
 Opportunity to select the Group Leader than follow a designate
 Focus on
 Team Cohesiveness
 Effective Leadership
 Problem Solving Skills
 Organizing Environment
 Highlight Collaboration and Subordinate Competition
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7.  Group Responsibility, Individual Accountability
 Disseminate Goal – precisely and in detail; to entire Group
 Sub-Task for Each Member
 Each Member Accountable for their Module
 Team Responsible for Completion as a Unit
 Effect - Improved Leadership Abilities and Enhanced
Responsibility
 Smaller sub-teams to manage individual modules and
coordinate to complete
 Example : Cricket Team
 Goal to Win the Match
 Each player contributes to the victory – Every Role is important to
the Game
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8. Thank You