Team Building
Introduction
Building effective, cohesive teams has never played such a pivotal role in a company’s success as it does today. As the economy recovers, many organizations are working with newly formed groups and teams as a result of corporate downsizings, mergers and restructurings.
Other organizations throughout the world have deliberately adopted team-based work structures to meet their business objectives. Many models of the organization of the future are premised on teams surpassing individuals as the primary performance unit in the company.
Effective teams, whether departmental, across functions or at the Board of Director level, pride themselves on better communication, decision-making, productivity and morale. Understanding how people work together is the key.
Throughout history, building a team has been the function of shared experiences and history. When that experience and history is lacking, it's difficult for a group to share a common vision and goal, or to function together in a way that promotes the best qualities of each team participant, in other words - to function as a team.
Teams are more successful in implementing complex plans and strategies. Because work can be split into responsibility areas, a team can tackle more complex projects more efficiently than a group of individuals.
Teams come up with more creative solutions because they can network and brainstorm. When team members bounce ideas off of each other, they arrive at solutions that none would have evolved alone. As teams continue to work together, many of them find that their individual work benefits from their new ability to see things from other perspectives.
Teams build commitment to ideas and plans because they have ownership of the idea. When a team is involved in a project from the start, they are more likely to be committed to the ideals it represents.
Teams are more enduring than reliance on individuals. If an organisation has one person who is responsible for a
Building effective, cohesive teams has never played such a pivotal role in a company’s success as it does today. As the economy recovers, many organizations are working with newly formed groups and teams as a result of corporate downsizings, mergers and restructurings.
Other organizations throughout the world have deliberately adopted team-based work structures to meet their business objectives. Many models of the organization of the future are premised on teams surpassing individuals as the primary performance unit in the company.
Effective teams, whether departmental, across functions or at the Board of Director level, pride themselves on better communication, decision-making, productivity and morale. Understanding how people work together is the key.
Throughout history, building a team has been the function of shared experiences and history. When that experience and history is lacking, it's difficult for a group to share a common vision and goal, or to function together in a way that promotes the best qualities of each team participant, in other words - to function as a team.
Teams are more successful in implementing complex plans and strategies. Because work can be split into responsibility areas, a team can tackle more complex projects more efficiently than a group of individuals.
Teams come up with more creative solutions because they can network and brainstorm. When team members bounce ideas off of each other, they arrive at solutions that none would have evolved alone. As teams continue to work together, many of them find that their individual work benefits from their new ability to see things from other perspectives.
Teams build commitment to ideas and plans because they have ownership of the idea. When a team is involved in a project from the start, they are more likely to be committed to the ideals it represents.
Teams are more enduring than reliance on individuals. If an organisation has one person who is responsible for a