Team Building

TEAM BUILDING
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According to Adair (2011), individuals in organizations and workplace talk over building the team, working as a team, and my team, however few understand how to establish the practices of team work or even how to found an effectual team. Being in a team, largely, is as a result of ones feeling to be part of something larger than oneself. It broadly has to do with ones understanding of the objectives or mission of the organization.
For instance, individuals in team-oriented surroundings contribute to the general success of the organization. The person works with other members of the organization to generate good results. This is done despite having varying job function. Although individuals belong to a specific department, they are collectively unified with other organization members to achieve the overall objectives. Enhanced Leadership
Goose, (2010) opine that knowledgeable and informed individuals are regarded as core points of any organization. For instance, their ability within organizations to manage skills as a resource is considered as agility and is a significant tool in the business fraternity where the effectiveness of commodity and service production that it effectively helps to move towards low-income economies. Nonetheless, in such environment, the vital matter of knowledge management to provide it under administrative levels that would realize intellectual capital.
Intellectual capital can be viewed as a key factor determining a company`s book cost and the grand cost of its stock (Goose, 2010). In addition, Offord (2000) argues that team building or being a member of a team requires one to recognize the concept and sense of the team. To form effective and productive teams, clear cooperative goals, effectual communication, better quality leadership, effective decision-making, realistic conflict management, and positive admissible use of authority are all necessary. However, to have an effective team, team building requires more effort. There are several concerns in building teams:
In addition, since team building is a continuous process which and helps a work group to result into a cohesive unit of an organization. For example, through team building team members not only share hope for achieving group tasks, rather they also trust and support and respect each other despite differences. Therefore, an individual`s role as a team builder is to lead his or her team towards effective cohesiveness and productivity. In order to examine interconnectedness between workers, the team builder should be able productivity and relations among team members. Symptoms that lead to team building are:
•Low productivity
•Hostility or conflicts among staff members
•Missed signals, confusion over assignments, and unclear relationships
•misunderstood decisions or not carried through well
•Lack of involvement and apathy
•Lack of innovation, initiation, imagination; usual measures taken for solving intricate problems
•Complaints of favoritism or discrimination
•Fruitless employees` meetings, low involvement, austerely effective decisions
•Negative reactions to the executive
•Complaints regarding the quality of service
On the other hand, a good team is characterized by
• Better communications between participants as a team and individuals
•Improved department production and creativity
•Team members influenced to achieve goals
•Better cooperation and collaborative in problem-solving within employees
•Better levels of job commitment and satisfaction
•increased levels of support and trust
•Employees working well together
•Coherent work objectives
•improved operating policies and procedures
Steps to Building an Effective Team
The fundamental thing that one should do to achieve an effective team building is lead a team effectively. Hence, one must establish his or her leadership with individual staff. It is importantly vital to note that the most successful team leaders establish their relationships of loyalty and trust, but not through fear or the power of their influence. An effective team leader devotes to
•Considers individual employee's ideas as valuable. Remember that every idea is worthy.
•Should be able to note employees' unspoken feelings. Sets examples to the team members by practicing honesty to employees as well as being sensitive to their moods and feelings
•Acts as a harmonizing influence. Looks for opportunities to arbitrate and resolve minor conflicts; the leader should be able to continually focus toward the team's higher aims.
•Should be coherent when communicating. Should clearly pass directives
Appreciating others
The leader should be able to encourage cooperation and trust among employees on his or her team. For instance, consider that the relationships team members establish between themselves always as important as those that the leader establishes with them. Therefore, when the team starts to take form, pay much attention to the manner in which team members thrive together and take measures to improve interaction, trust, cooperation, and respect towards those relationships. Promote team member`s sharing of information. Advocate for the importance of each team member's participation and display how all of their jobs interrelate so as to move the whole team closer to its objectives. Deploy conflict-solving du...