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What is a team?
A group of people with complementary skills that work in a shared form, understand their
goals and are engaged in meeting them and feel collectively responsible.
The interdependence among team members is critical for the successful formation of a
new entrepreneurial team (Harper, 2008).
New entrepreneurial teams tend to gravitate toward individuals with similar backgrounds
or experiences and may place some importance on “chemistry” or interpersonal fit between
individuals (Williams Middleton & Nowell, 2018; Klotz, Hmieleski, Bradley, & Busenitz, 2014).
Once formed, entrepreneurial teams face a set of unique challenges as the team
establishes its own leadership structures and develops its culture. These early managerial
decisions have a significant impact on the new venture and its growth (Ensley, Pearson, &
Amason, 2002, Mischel, 1977; Hambrick and Abrahamson, 1995; Forsström-Tuominen, Jussila,
& Goel, 2017).
It does suggest that many ventures may experience a benefit from operating as a team
(Held, Herrmann, & van Mossel, 2018). These benefits include increased creativity and idea
creation; the ability to complement team members’ skills and compound existing skills; and, the
ability to create and form meaningful bonds (Gundry, Ofstein, & Monllor, 2016; Kollmann,
Stöckmann, Meves, & Kensbock, 2017). These benefits, however, are not guaranteed.
An entrepreneurial team plagued with a lack of trust and cohesion – which often lead to
high turnover – will struggle to fully capture the positive effects of the team.
Tuckman's model explains that as the team develops maturity and ability, relationships
are established, and leadership style changes to more collaborative or shared leadership
These stages are commonly known as Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and
Adjourning.
Tuckman's original work simply described the way he had observed groups evolve,
whether they were conscious of it or not. Project guides will be ready for this, and will help the
team get back to work as possible.
FORMING
The initial forming stage is the process of putting the structure of the team together. Team
members feel ambiguous and conflict is avoided at all costs due to the need to be accepted into
the group. Team members look to a group leader for direction and guidance, usually CORAL
project guides.
Observable Behaviors
Politeness
Tentative joining
Orienting with others personally
Avoids controversy
Cliques may form
Need for safety and approval
Attempts to define tasks, processes, and how it will be decided here
Discussion of problems not relevant to the task
Leadership Required
To advance from this stage to the next stage, each member must relinquish the comfort zone of
non-threatening topics and risk the possibility of conflict.
STORMING
This stage begins to occur as the process of organizing tasks and processes surface
interpersonal conflicts. Leadership, power, and structural issues dominate this stage.
Observable Behaviors
Feel Defensive
Confusion, loss of interest can result
Resistance to tasks
Fluctuations in attitude about the team
Unsure if I agree with teams mission and purpose
Question the wisdom of team members
Increase in tension and jealousy
Unsure about my personal influence and freedom in the team
We're not getting anywhere
Team Needs
Leadership Required
NORMING
In this stage, team members are creating new ways of doing and being together. As the
group develops cohesion, leadership changes from ‘one’ teammate in charge to shared
leadership. Team members learn they have to trust one another for shared leadership to be
effective.
Observable Behaviors
Team Needs
Leadership Required
Shared leadership
Give feedback and support from Project Guides
Allow for less structure
Promotes team interaction
Asks for contributions from all team members
Collaboration becomes clearer
Encouraging others in making decisions
Continues to build strong relationships
The major task function of stage three is the data flow between group members: They share
feelings and ideas, solicit and give feedback to one another, and explore actions related to the
task. Creativity is high. Collaboration emerges during this stage when team work ethic and
shared leadership is understood.
The major drawback of the norming stage is that members may begin to fear the inevitable
future breakup of the team; they may resist change of any sort.
PERFORMING
True interdependence is the norm of this stage of group development. The team is
flexible as individuals adapt to meet the needs of other team members. This is a highly
productive stage both personally and professionally.
Observable Behaviors
Team Needs
Leadership Required
The Performing stage is not reached by all groups. If group members are able to evolve to stage
four, their capacity, range, and depth of personal relations expand to true interdependence. In this
stage, people can work independently, in subgroups, or as a total unit with equal competencies.
ADJOURNING
In this stage typically team members are ready to leave (course termination) causing
significant change to the team structure, membership, or purpose and the team during the last
week of class. They experience change and transition. While the group continues to perform
productively they also need time to manage their feelings of termination and transition.
Observable Behaviors
Sadness
Humor (that to outsiders could appear cruel)
Glad it is over – relief
Team Needs
Leadership Required
c. Restriction on interaction
A free and open environment provides members an opportunity to interact with
members of their own and other grOups.
Such interaction facilitates exchange of ideas and information required for
creative work where as in restricted environment creativity is adversely affected.
d. Fear of something going wrong
Many new ideas may go wrong or prove impractical. Whenever creative work is
to be undertaken the possibility of success or failure is always there.
e. Lack of recognition
Failure to recognize or reward creativity acts as demotivating factor.
Hard work put in by creative people must be compensated with adequate financial
and non-financial rewards.
f. Resource constraints
Creativity demands sufficient availability of resources. Absence of adequate
resources may dampen the spirit of creativity.
B. INNOVATION
INNOVATION and entrepreneurship are essential ingredients in building a successful
commercial venture. Innovation in its modern meaning is "'a new idea, creative thoughts,
and new imaginations in form of device or method". It is often also viewed as the
application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or
existing market needs. It is the process of translating an idea or invention into a good or
service that creates value or for which customers will pay.
To be called an innovation, an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and
must satisfy a specific need. It involves deliberate application of information,
imagination and initiative in deriving greater or different values from resources,
and includes all processes by which new ideas are generated and converted into
useful products. In business, innovation often results when ideas are applied by
the company in order to further satisfy the needs and expectations of the
customers.
In a social context, innovation helps create new methods for alliance creation,
joint venturing, flexible work hours, and creation of buyers' purchasing power. It
is divided into two broad categories:
INNOVATION
It is the ability to apply creative solutions to those problems and opportunities in
order to enhance people's lives or to enrich society.
It is the implementation of new ideas at the individual, group or organizational
level.
TYPES OF INNOVATIONS
a. Invention
Described as the creation of a new product, service or process. This would mean
that the entrepreneur takes an existing idea and applies it differently.
b. Extension
The expansion of an existing product, service or process. This would mean that
the entrepreneur takes an existing idea and applies it differently.
c. Duplication
Copying (replicating) an existing product or service and then adding the
entrepreneurs own creative touch in order to improve it.
d. Synthesis
A combination of more than one existing products or services in to a new product
or service. This means that several different ideas are combined in to one new
product or service.
THE INNOVATION PROCESS
a. Analytical planning
Carefully identifying the product or service features, design as well as the
resources that will be needed.
b. Resource organization
Obtaining the required resources, materials, technology, human or capital
resources.
c. Implementation
Applying the resources in order to accomplish the plans.
d. Commercial application
The provision of value to customers, reward to employees, revenues to investors
and satisfaction for founders.
5 MYTHS OF INNOVATION
b. Innovation is planned and predictable.
c. Technical specifications should be thoroughly prepared in advance.
d. Creativity relies on dreams and blue-sky ideas.
e. Big projects will develop better innovations than smaller ones.
f. Technology is the driving force of innovation and success.
2. Read reviews.
While any new kind of business technology will sound attractive, not all of it is right for
your business. Doing research and reading reviews on the technopreneurship idea will
help you objectively weigh the pros and cons. More than anything, it will help you decide
if you really need the technology for your business or not.
b. Start at the top. Because change is inherently unsettling for people at all levels of
an organization, when it is on the horizon, all eyes will turn to the CEO and the
leadership team for strength, support, and direction. The leaders themselves must
embrace the new approaches first, both to challenge and to motivate the rest of the
institution. They must speak with one voice and model the desired behaviors. The
executive team also needs to understand that, although its public face may be one
of unity, it, too, is composed of individuals who are going through stressful times
and need to be supported.
Executive teams that work well together are best positioned for success. They are
aligned and committed to the direction of change, understand the culture and
behaviors the changes intend to introduce, and can model those changes
themselves. At one large transportation company, the senior team rolled out an
initiative to improve the efficiency and performance of its corporate and field staff
before addressing change issues at the officer level. The initiative realized initial
cost savings but stalled as employees began to question the leadership team’s
vision and commitment. Only after the leadership team went through the process
of aligning and committing to the change initiative was the work force able to
deliver downstream results.
d. Make the formal case. Individuals are inherently rational and will question to
what extent change is needed, whether the company is headed in the right
direction, and whether they want to commit personally to making change happen.
They will look to the leadership for answers. The articulation of a formal case for
change and the creation of a written vision statement are invaluable opportunities
to create or compel leadership-team alignment
D. Strategy
5. Digital Advertisements
In this digital age, most businesses and corporations have shifted from brochures,
billboards, and banners to online marketing materials to promote their products and
services. Aside from saving time and money in producing print marketing materials,
digital ads play a vital role in reaching a wider target audience, generating high-quality
leads, and earning high-ranking positions in search engines. Likewise, it can help
businesses target ideal customers, engage with them at every buying stage, and track the
results of their campaign—whether it’s from social media channels or search engine
optimization (SEO).
Engineering services company is a project-based business that provides
specialized consulting services to help clients bring products or technology to market.
The specialization of engineering services will range depending on the project scope.
The engineering firm provides multidisciplinary consulting related to the design,
simulation, evaluation and investigation needed to safely construct or manufacture the
asset.
Business Name:
Elysian Construction and Development Corporation
About:
An Engineering Firm offer a high degree of flexibility of service, service that is
not only effective but also very cost-efficient. It also provides engineering, procurement,
construction, maintenance, and project management services to our clients.
How we can Relate our business which ECCDC to Team Formation, Leadership
and Mind Ideation.
As the Engineering Firm offers high flexible services, Elysians' team formation
process through which founders establish a team to start a new venture has important
implications for team performance and engineers and clients success and satisfaction. As
Engineers team formation is gradually growing, it is at a critical juncture and marked by
considerable fragmentation. ECCDC has a very friendly and helpful working
environment wherein superiors help out their subordinates and teamwork is present.
How our business able to cope up with the creativity processes, strategies,
techniques and Innovation?
The value that creativity and innovation offers lies in their ability to facilitate the
development of novel and effective technological solutions to problems stimulated by
change. There is, however, a disconnect between creativity, innovation, and engineering.
As our firm offers derived strength from its commitment to diligently and
carefully plan the works and then vigorously working the plans, we gather our ideas and
creatives plans to provide a services which clients and people can be a pioneer and
succees both side some of this high end quality services is the Engineering design
services.