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5/1/2014
In today’s work environment, building teams and working as a team is important as organizations are increasingly becoming more and more virtually based. In the business world, it takes managers and employees to run a corporation, but it as a team they need to often work together for a common goal to plan, organize, lead and control. These organizations have learned to enable employees and establish teams to solve problems, develop plans, and make effective decisions. The role of a business manager has changed dramatically over the years ("Building and Leading High Performance Teams - Teambuilding | Inc.com", n.d.) Managers of today and tomorrow will need effective team building skills in order to make every effort to maintain organizational success. As a result, working in teams brings benefits to both team members and organizations.
A results catalyst supports team decisions and creates clear performance goals (Fisher & Fisher, 2011, p. 30). This management style begins with a team, along with establishing a team charter and operating guidelines helps maintain attitude that every employee does their share. A team is a group of people with a common collective goal. An effective team is not based on one person. Like the saying “There is no 'I ' in TEAM”. Team work is when employees put aside their personal goals and preferences and work together cooperatively to achieve the team’s goal. Forming successful teams can become a challenge because you have to get all the right people in one group. Sometimes you do not always get to choose the right people, but in order to have a successful team, a leader should make every effort to learn about the people that they have to work with, so they have background knowledge of everyone on the team. This helps because he or she will be able to help each one in a respectable manner in reference to a barrier buster. Also it will help later if a problem might occur
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