The document discusses why teams don't work effectively and some common misperceptions about teams. It notes that while teams are meant to bring people together for a common goal, there are challenges like lack of clear direction, coordination problems, and competition between members that can damage performance. Research shows members often disagree on the team's purpose. The document advocates being selective in choosing dedicated team members and setting clear expectations and roles to make teams successful.

1. Why Teams Don’t work

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. CONTRADICTION ?!!!

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

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

13. Fallacy II
Bigger Teams
are
better

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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