This document discusses the importance of team building and effective teamwork. It outlines several key steps for building an effective team, including setting clear goals, defining roles and responsibilities, communicating openly, making decisions as a group, balancing participation, valuing diversity, managing conflicts, creating a positive atmosphere, developing cooperative relationships, utilizing participative leadership, and working together towards a common goal. The overall message is that a cohesive team where members support each other can achieve more than individuals working alone.
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Why team building is important & how to build teams.
This document discusses the importance of team building and effective teamwork. It outlines several key steps for building an effective team, including setting clear goals, defining roles and responsibilities, communicating openly, making decisions as a group, balancing participation, valuing diversity, managing conflicts, creating a positive atmosphere, developing cooperative relationships, utilizing participative leadership, and working together towards a common goal. The overall message is that a cohesive team where members support each other can achieve more than individuals working alone.
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This document discusses the importance of team building and effective teamwork. It outlines several key steps for building an effective team, including setting clear goals, defining roles and responsibilities, communicating openly, making decisions as a group, balancing participation, valuing diversity, managing conflicts, creating a positive atmosphere, developing cooperative relationships, utilizing participative leadership, and working together towards a common goal. The overall message is that a cohesive team where members support each other can achieve more than individuals working alone.
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team building Team - Definition A group of people, contributing their individual knowledge and skills but working together to achieve a common goal/task. Effective Team
• Share information openly
• Encourage each other • Use all of the team’s resources • Clearly defined roles/ responsibilities • Respect for team members • Successfully deals with conflict Steps Towards Team Building ΘSetting Clear Goals • To build an effective team, it is important to make sure that the everyone in the team works towards a “Common Goal”. • It is a leader’s responsibility to link the individual goals of each team member with the common goal to ensure motivation and desire to achieve it.
United we stand, divided we fall!
ΘDefining individual roles • Everyone in the team must know their roles and responsibilities and there should be no confusion regarding them as this could lead to unnecessary friction amongst team members. • Every team member should know that there role in the team is crucial and is valued by their boss. They should be able to respect the role of everyone in the team. Clear allocation of work reduces the possibilities of intra Alone we can do so little; Together we can do team conflict. ΘCommunicating clearly and openly • Putting the information across clearly and with the right words and tone ensures trust and confidence in team thus encouraging every team member also to be honest and clear about their views.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends
the fate of all ΘMaking effective • decisions Decision making involves choosing between alternatives, prioritizing and choosing the most feasible alternative. Taking everyone’s views and incorporating them in the decision made increases its acceptability and thus makes the process of change easier.
In union there is strength.
ΘBalancing Participation • There should be an equal participation of everyone in the team in every task taken and every decision made. The energy of enthusiastic members should be routed in the right directions and the shy members should be encouraged and motivated to speak up and participate more.
Teamwork: Simply stated, It is less me and
ΘValuing Diversity • The individuality of each team member should be respected. There shouldn’t be any discrimination based on age, gender, personality traits, race, color etc. The individual characteristics of each are an asset to the team and strengthen it.
Whether it’s two people, a department or an
organization, teams are the means by which great ΘManaging Conflict • Conflicts are a part of every group dynamics but the skill lies in handling them skillfully and reducing the intragroup friction to minimal.
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping
together is progress. Working together is ΘCreating Positive Atmosphere • If due appreciation is given to every applaud that the team member brings and the team is happy, a positive atmosphere is automatically created.
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
ΘDeveloping cooperative relationships • A team that is dependent on each other for the completion of their goals and realizes the importance of that dependence, churns out maximum output and stays happy together.
The nice thing about teamwork is that you
always have others on your side. Θ Utilizing Participative leadership • Delegation of responsibility helps in developing the team’s leadership skills and the sense of responsibility. • It is a great motivating factor too which leads members of team to own the task and thus work towards it with greater enthusiasm
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a
whole orchestra to play it. T ogether Everyone Achieves More…! Created by Swapnil Rajput. Let us work as a TEAM