We need to establish what the role of the team is. The goal is to essentially increase distribution and productivity to meet the companies requirements.
Encouraging team members to question the purpose of the team, how it will operate and what role is expected will make for a better understanding of the team roles and roles of individual members. It’s more likely team members will share a common understanding of the goals when they have been given a chance to debate and have input rather than just being told from an external party.
There are numerous ways in which team members can debate their role:
- Team Meetings
- Work Shops
- Values Exploration Exercises
- Project Scoping Sessions
- Imagining Exercises
I will personally be going with the Team Meeting and Work Shop options as it suits my style of leadership and I think will benefit the group more than the other options.
Goal setting must be clear, achievable and agreed upon.
Goals and Objectives need to follow the SMART principle. Smart, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely.
These objectives are to be Teamwork products as opposed to Work products of the individuals. The objective must be based on the collaborative efforts from all the individuals in the team.
The main objective is to get the departmental productivity increased to meet the organisations expectations.
With this objective established the team is able to collaboratively develop action plans which attribute time frames, resources and personell to specific activities. To appropriately assign each team member their task so the goal can be achieved efficiently skills mapping is required. This is essential to designation of team personell. To accurately allocate tasks and utilise each team members skills the compentencies, qualifications, experience and interest should be mapped against the performance requirements.
Skill