Team working skills

-A teamwork environment promotes an atmosphere that fosters friendship and loyalty. These
close-knit relationships motivate employees in parallel and align them to work harder, cooperate and be
supportive of one another.
-Individuals possess diverse talents, weaknesses, communication skills, strengths, and habits.
Therefore, when a teamwork environment is not encouraged this can pose many challenges towards
achieving the overall goals and objectives. This creates an environment where employees become
focused on promoting their own achievements and competing against their fellow colleagues.
Ultimately, this can lead to an unhealthy and inefficient working environment.

 The dynamics of team working

Team- the most important feature of modern managerial life and increasingly they are taking priority
over traditional business departments. where the combined effect of the team is greater than the sum
of individual efforts. Working together a team can apply individual perspectives, experience, and skills to
solve complex problems, creating new solutions and ideas that may be beyond the scope of any one
individual.

Departments- are a good way of organizing jobs around fixed functions . All businesses, no matter what
the size, need some sort of organizational structure to operate properly. Businesses without a set
organizational structure have problems implementing company policies and operating at efficient
production levels
Intrinsic Factors:

1. Group size - larger groups are more difficult to manged than smaller groups and it is harder to
maintain cohesiveness and unity. Kasi not everybody would easilty settle on one idea. It may disputes
among memvers

2. Stage in group Formation – the function of the group changes overtime .individuals learn to do their
tasks somehow.

Forming

Characterised by uncertainty about roles, other group members, and task requirements. Often people
are particularly polite and aim to avoid any conflict.

Storming

An unsettled phase that is usually characterised by the group struggling. Struggles can eventuate due to
task requirements, conflicts between individuals or sub-groups arising from both task and interpersonal
issues.
Norming

The phase whereby the group begins to harmonise as norms for the group’s functioning emerge and
develop. Conflicts are reconciled and mutual support develops.

Performing

Characterised by the group organising itself to best meet the needs of the common task and starting to
produce results.

3. Individual expertise and specialisms- groups offers their expertise and specialism to the overall
venture. Like I said , individuals has diverse talents . the development of the group will be enfluenced by
the way in which individuals are allowed to enhance their expertise.

4. Group norms and culture- the group itself develop their own local culture . the culture can be tought
of set of the rules, that define what is allowed behaviour in the group and what is not. The very
important elemt f group norms and culture is how the memvers distinguish between themselves and
outsiders.

5. leadership – if the team is devotd to maintain its chorence towards its objectives , iit needs effective
leadership. Organizing task , allocatinf resources and resolving conflicts are the crucial roles the
leadership.

6. Individual personalities- of course made up of individuals , the way the group functions depends on
the personalities of individuals.

7. group motivation- the critical dimension in the unity or cohesivesness of the group is the motivation
of its members.

Extrinsic factors

1. Group task
2. Resource availability
3. Group rewards
4. Interaction with other groups

Process of group formation

 1. formation
2. brainstorming / Deliberation
3. emergence of consensus
4. performance

Managing team conflicts

Conflicts- a situation in which the goals of one party are incompatible, or at least are seen as
incompatible, with those of another party.

Functional conflict- a necessary aspect of change processes , especially if the team is set in its way and
has adopted an inflexible style of group think . winwin situation

Dysfunctional conflict- distract from goal achievement and must be managed out if the team is to be
successful. Win lose situation

Functional conflict is healthy, constructive disagreement between groups or

individuals, while dysfunctional conflict is unhealthy disagreement that occurs between groups or
individuals

1. address the issue

2. identify the parties
3. assert the need for resolution
4. understand both sides
5. look for common ground
6. give parties a back route
7. be prepared to impose a solution

working with external supporters and experts

1. understand what issue you need advice or support on

2. define objectives
3. identify who can help
4. approach positively
5. ensure understanding and integrate findingd