First of all we need to knowwhat is a TEAM???

What is a Team?

•Two or more individuals with a high degree of interdependence geared toward the achievement of a goal or the completion of a task.•Teams make decisions, solve problems, provide support, accomplish missions, and plan their work.

TEAM

• A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SHARE A COMMON NAME, MISSION, HISTORY, SET OF GOALS OR OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTATIONS.

• A ‘TEAM’S’ PERFORMANCE INCLUDES BOTH INDIVIDUAL RESULTS AND WHAT WE CALL ‘COLLECTIVE WORK-PRODUCTS’.

• A ‘COLLECTIVE WORK-PRODUCT’ IS WHAT TWO OR MORE MEMBERS MUST WORK ON TOGETHER….(IT) REFLECTS THE JOINT, REAL CONTRIBUTION OF TEAM MEMBERS.

What makes a good team?

• Between 6 and 10

members

• Knowledgeable people

from all relevant

departments

• A clear, documented

purpose

What makes a good team?

• Mutual trust

• Mutual support

• Communications

• Team objectives

• Conflict resolution

What makes a good team?

• An open, pleasant

environment

• Well planned and

structured meetings

• The support of

superiors

Benefits of Good Teambuilding• Goals and accomplishments are more

realized through a team effort

• A team offers both the leaders and individuals

support and encouragement of one another

• A team by its very nature encourages

communication

Benefits of Good Teambuilding

• Problem solving becomes far more

effective because all team members can

offer ideas from their own experience

• Since the team works closely together and

encourages communication, there is rarely

a concern over conflicts

Benefits of Good Teambuilding• Each member of team clearly understands

the objectives and expectations of both the

team and its individual members.

• Within a well-built team, members are

motivated and inspired to achieve goals and

maintain high levels of productivity

Benefits of Good Teambuilding• Success within the team offers opportunity for

reward and recognition on two levels, from

both individual and team accomplishments

• Team work encourages disciplined work

habits

• Team work and productivity go hand in hand

Team Disadvantages• Workers must be selected to fit the team as well

as requisite job skills

• Some individuals are not compatible with team

work

• Some members may experience less motivating

jobs as part of a team

• Organization may resist change

Team Disadvantages

• Conflict may develop between team

members and other teams

• Team may be time-consuming due to need

for coordination and consensus

• Team can stymie creativity and inhibit goo

decision if “group think” becomes prevalent

Team Disadvantages

• Evaluation and rewards may be perceived as

lees powerful

• Less flexibility may be experienced in

personal replacement or transfer

• “Free-riding” within the team may occur

Types of Teams

• Problem Solving teams: members share ideas or offer suggestions on how work processes and methods can be improved; although they rarely have the authority to unilaterally implement any of their suggested actions

• Self managed Teams: are groups of employees who perform highly interdependent tasks and take on many of the responsibilities of their former supervisors

• Cross functional teams: employees from the same hierarchical level, but from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task

• Virtual Teams: teams that use computer technology to tie together physically dispersed members in order to achieve a common goal

Teamwork is the fuel that

allows common people to

attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork…..Why?

Rationale for a Team Approach

• Teams are a part of everyone's life. You're a member of a family team, a staff team, school, health care and community teams.

• So it's appropriate that you understand how to function effectively as a team member.

Teamwork .... What Is It?• A team is defined as a group (a collection of people)

who interact to achieve a common goal, but an effective, well-functioning team is much more than this.

• Participants in an effective team care about the group's well-being. They skillfully combine appropriate individual talents with a positive team spirit to achieve results.

• Regardless of whether the program effort is that of an individual, several individuals or the entire county office unit, a climate of teamwork can exist.

Teamwork .... What Is It?• A variety of working relationships exist among staff. You

might view these relationships as dimensions (levels) of involvement or as a continuum of relationships among agents. As you move along the continuum, the degree of communication, integration and commitment seems to increase.

• Greater interpersonal skills are necessary if you are to work together effectively at more complex levels. As your skills develop, more options become available to you regarding the dimension of involvement which you might select for any particular program effort.

Elements of Teamwork in the Workplace

Collaboration :

Communicate and share ideas

Have a feeling of respect for each team

member’s contribution

Elements of Teamwork in the Workplace

Conflict Resolution :

Leaving room for everyone’s contributions

Developing the ability to listen to all ideas

Creating a method of consensus to

develop a solution the team can agree on

Elements of Teamwork in the Workplace

Roles and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities are distributed fairly among the

group members

Each member is assigned a part of the task based

on is role within the group and his level of expertise.

Elements of Teamwork in the Workplace

Differing Points of View

Good team creates solutions that are manufactured

from the many different perspectives of the individual

group members

It helps to see a situation from several different

angles, and can create a solution that no one

individual could create on his own.

How an individual problem affects all the members of a team…..

A short story on that…

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Now here is an another story which tells us how a goal can be achieved easily and

effectively if we work as a TEAM…

Good old lessons in teamwork from an age-old fable

The TortoiseAnd

The Hare

Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster.

I’m the fastestrunner.

That’s not true.The fastest runner isme!

Ok, let’s havea race.

Fine!

They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race.

The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race.

Poor guy! Even if I take a nap, he could not catch up with me.

He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep.

The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ.

The hare woke up and realized that he'd lost the race.

The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race.

This is the version of the story that we've all grown up with.

The story continues …

The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some soul-searching. He realized that he'd lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax. If he had not taken things for granted, there's no way the tortoise could have beaten him.

Why did I lose the

race?

Can we have another race?

Ok.

So he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed.

This time, the hare went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish. He won by several miles.

The moral of the story?

Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady. If you have two people in your organization, one slow, methodical and reliable, and the other fast and still reliable at what he does, the fast and reliable chap will consistently climb the organizational ladder faster than the slow, methodical chap. It's good to be slow and steady; but it's better to be fast and reliable.

But the story doesn't end here …

The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realized that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted. How can

I can win the hare?

He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route. The hare agreed.

Sure!

Can we have another race? This time we’ll go through a different route.

They started off. In keeping with his self-made commitment to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river.

Goal

The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime the tortoise trundled along, got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.

What should I

do?

The moral of the story?

First identify your core competency and then change the playing field to suit your core competency. In an organization, if you are a good speaker, make sure you create opportunities to give presentations that enable the senior management to notice you. If your strength is analysis, make sure you do some sort of research, make a report and send it upstairs.

Working to your strengths will not only get you noticed, but will also create opportunities for growth and advancement.

The story still hasn't ended …

The hare and the tortoise, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did some thinking together. Both realized that the last race could have been run much better.

So they decided to do the last race again, but to run as a team this time.

Hi, buddy. Howabout doing our lastrace again?

Great! I think we could do it much better, if we two help each other.

Hi, buddy. Howabout doing our lastrace again?

They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank.

There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back.

On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. They both felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.

The moral of the story?

It's good to be individually brilliant and to have strong core competencies; but unless you're able to work in a team and harness each other's core competencies, you'll always perform below par because there will always be situations at which you'll do poorly and someone else does well. Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership.

There are more lessons to be learnt from this story. Note that neither the hare nor the tortoise gave up after failures. The hare decided to work harder and put in more effort after his failure. The tortoise changed his strategy because he was already working as hard as he could.

In life, when faced with failure, sometimes it is appropriate to work harder and put in more effort. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both. The hare and the tortoise also learnt another vital lesson. When we stop competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation, we perform far better.

What are Characteristics of Effective Teams?

• Members have a clear goal• The focus is on achieving results• There is a plan for achieving the goal• Members have clear roles• Members are committed to the goal• Members are competent• They achieve decisions through consensus• There is diversity among team members• Members have effective interpersonal skills• They know each other well and have good

relationships

More Characteristics • Each member feels empowered to act, speak up, offer

ideas• Each member has a high standard of excellence• An informal climate and easiness exists among members• The team has the support of management• The team is open to new ideas• There is periodic self-assessment• There is shared leadership of the team• The team is a relatively small size• There is recognition of team member accomplishments

Attitudes for Effective Teamwork

• Appreciation for value of team decisions• Respect for team members• Mutual trust• Openness to feedback• Reflection on group process and interest

in improving• Shared vision

Group Problem Solving

•Listen for common Themes

• Organize ideas

•Evaluate alternatives

• Manage conflict

•Involve people

•Get information

• Develop plan

•Generate ideas

•Assign responsibilities

• Find resources

•Monitor progress

•Motivate

•Details/Finish

•Presentation

•IDENTIFY PROBLEM

Keep the following in mind:

• Teamwork improves the working Teamwork improves the working environment. environment.

• Teamwork keeps communication Teamwork keeps communication consistent. consistent.

• Teamwork relieves stress. Teamwork relieves stress. • Teamwork reduces errors. Teamwork reduces errors. • Teamwork keeps communication lines Teamwork keeps communication lines

open. open.

•Along with immense advantages, teams have

some disadvantages

•Building good teams is so important because it

means building a successful business

•Best teams reach the best result

Let’s go and build stronger teams!

THANK YOU