How to built successful work team in organization

Work Team

Definition
Team work is a position of agreement attained within a group of people working for toward a specific profitable benefit.
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Objectives of Work Team

1. Improved Interpersonal and Communication Skills
An understanding of personality types and activities that encourage effective communication can help improve overall team communication. By having an understanding of how nonverbal cues can affect the meaning or perception of a statement, team members can learn how to avoid miscommunications. When conducting team building activities related to interpersonal and communication skills, it is important for a team to also practice sensitivity to cultural differences in communication.

2. Decreased Conflicts
Conflicts in a team, no matter how minor, are inevitable and can lead to fixing blame on team members. Team building exercises that involve an understanding of different personality types offer an opportunity for team members relate to different types of personal workplace demeanors, which can help decrease potential conflict. When team members have a better understanding of the personality types that represent the team, individuals can practice communication that is more effective and assign roles that will help how a team works as a system.
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3. Awareness of Team Culture

A team's culture includes an organization's goals and the relationships of those working within the organization. Team building helps develop team member understanding about the organization's purpose and mission. When this is done, members of a team gain a better understanding of how personality types affect relationships with peers and subordinates, personal variances, the division of work and how different departments interact.

4. Improved Effectiveness and Productivity

Team building can help team members consider the different personality types in the group and how each individual can contribute to the success of the team and organization. Individuals learn that even though each person has a different job function, they all belong in the same department and can work together. As a result, individuals are more likely to unify to accomplish the organization's goals with the "big picture" in mind.
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Benefits of Team Work

1.Creativity:

Different people have different skills and possess different perspectives of every activity. Therefore any activity that involves team work would benefit from the various creative thoughts and inspirations of different people. By making use of different thoughts and perspectives, varied ideas can be used to find an array of solutions that will ultimately help find the best solution or a new solution for an old problem. People working as individuals fall into the monotony of their jobs and this lead to dissatisfaction and under-performance in the long run. However, when people work in teams, the interaction in itself generates enthusiasm and any issues are resolved by inputs from different people, making even small tasks enjoyable and interesting. This leads to better enthusiasm and energy levels among team members leading to better productivity.
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2.Overcomes monotony:

3.Varied skills:

It is impossible for one individual to possess all the knowledge and skills required to complete any job. For example, lets look at the construction of a house. When one individual builds a house all on his own, besides the long duration and the risk of the construction stopping mid-way, there is also the risk of faults and damages in various aspects of the house. However, when different individuals with specialized skill and knowledge come together to do the different jobs, the house will be completed in a much shorter duration and the end product would definitely be a house that is beautiful and inhabitable.

4.Accomplish faster:

Team work definitely finishes tasks faster than if an individual were to slog at it. The speed is not only because of different hands coming together, but also because of different minds working on the varied aspects of each task. When a problem occurs there are different people thinking of it from varied perspectives and thus they are able to arrive at a solution faster than if one person were to try resolving the issue.
Team work leads to camaraderie between team members. This not only leads to better social relationships, but also acts as a support when things go wrong, 6 both in the work and in the personal front.

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6.Distribution of work:

Imagine having to conduct a wedding or your companys annual meeting on your own. Your never be able to complete all the tasks before its due and the greater chances are you will mess up the whole activity. However, if you create a team for the task and assign activities to each member of the team, you will definitely be successful in making the event an unforgettable and successful event. Distributing work not only reduces each individuals burden, but also increases responsibility and ensures better commitment to completing the task individually and as a whole. It is because these benefits of team work have been fully understood by schools, organizations, and even nations that they encourage team work in all activities. Everyone has come to understand that only many hands and minds working together can bring about all round development to build their organizations and nations.

Reasons Teams Fail

1. No Vision!
First, the concept of "vision" must be defined. Simply stated a vision for a team is "a vivid mental image produced by the imagination." A vision sees the future, possibilities, and future successes. If a team does not have a vision the possibilities for failure are great. The entire team must produce the casting of a vision. There will always be those who lead the way however, all members of the team must be included in the vision casting process.

2. Failure to Be Personally Responsible

Teams can never hope to succeed if one person on the team refuses to play their part. The success of any team is dependent upon the involvement of every person on the team. The skills of the many are what make a great and productive team.
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3. Conflict Between Personalities

Every person is different! That is not a big surprise. The uniqueness of individuals can create a wonderful environment of teamwork while at the same time it can cause conflicts on the grandest of scales. One of the great challenges of teams and teamwork is to recognize that we are all different but these differences can produce great power when combined together. Conflicts will take place but if handled in the proper fashion these very conflicts can produce a strong team of complimentary personalities.

4. Power Struggles
Who is in charge here? This is a question that just about every organization asks. The idea of shared responsibility is not a comfortable concept for some people. There are those personalities that are very aggressive and those that are passive or somewhat shy. One of the greatest challenges for any team is to work on bringing out the talents and gifts of the entire team. The failure of most teams is the result of one or two people leading the way and leaving very gifted people behind. Those left behind may not say anything about this action but they will soon become inactive and the team is reduced to the one or two strong personalities.
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5. No Clear Identity
Who are we? Does the team have a clear understanding of its purpose and direction? Every good sports team has a name and play book. A good team will be able to identify itself to others outside of the team by the title or name they carry. A strong team will also know the "play book." The direction, focus, and goals must be stated. It is best to write these things down and for every team member to be able to identify their purpose and direction in less than a paragraph. Two sentences would be best. A team without a clear identity will never succeed.

6. No Coaching
Every good team has a good coach. The coach is not a member of the team. The coach does not work with the team. The coach is an outsider who can give direction, insight, and wisdom for the team. A coach will give the team an edge for strong development. The insights and "wisdom" of someone that is not on the team can give the team the benefit of hearing from an observer. This calls for the team to put egos aside and embrace a willingness to receive productive criticism.
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Five Key Elements to Managing Teams

1. Trust among team members
Building trust takes time. If trust is lacking it must be the responsibility of the team leader to focus first on building trust, i.e. getting team members to open up (among the team) and expose their weaknesses and fears to each other. In some cases, a team building exercise can be utilized. In certain business cases, due to time pressures, the leader may have to take responsibility for building trust or change the team to achieve the necessary level of trust for team success. Until everyone is willing to trust the other members of the team, progress towards team success will be limited.

2. Prepare to engage in debate around ideas.

Disagreements can lead to conflict, but conflict can be good. If ideas are not presented and debated, the team will miss opportunities to find the best solutions to problems. Respect for the thoughts and ideas of the other team members will be developed through healthy 11 debate.

3. Learn to commit to decisions and plans of action.

Team results will only come about as a result of team commitment to team decisions, this includes agreeing on the specifics of action plans. If some team members are not consistent with their commitments, the team will not succeed.

4. Hold one another accountable against their plans.

Team members must be prepared to check among themselves to assure progress and overcome obstacles to progress. Ad hoc meetings may be necessary to coordinate actions between departments or groups to assure progress.

5. Focus on achieving collective results.

The vision and/or mission of the team must be accepted by all the team members and critical goals viewed as the collective responsibility of the team. If a return to profitability is a critical goal of an executive team, priorities and time commitments must be pulled from elsewhere. Focusing on results that in any way does not support the critical goal(s) of the team will lead to team failure.
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Twelve Cs For Team Building

1. Clear Expectations 2. Context 3. Competence 4. Charter 5. Control 6. Collaboration
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7. Communication 8. Creative Innovation 9. Commitment 10. Consequences 11. Coordination 12. Cultural Change

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Strategies for Effective Team work

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Roles Communication Reward and Recognition

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How to Build successful work team

1. Choose the people with the right skills.
The first task when building a successful work team is to put together the right people for the task. You need the right mix of experience and the right personalities in order to get the best job done. You may also want to consider pairing up new employees with experienced ones to help in the training process. As long as the skills are present and the people don't have clashing personalities, the work team should be successful.

2. State expectations clearly.

At the beginning of any project, a successful work team needs to know what is expected of them. It is important for supervisors to state expectations clearly, including goals, deadlines and work behavior. Anyone who is part of a work team needs to know the rewards and the risks associated with the task at hand. This will present a clear set of objectives that should help work teams to be successful.
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3. Make sure every team member is committed.

No matter how big or small the task, a successful work team needs to be committed to reaching the same goals. Team members should all show a keen interest in the positive outcome of the project. Ensure that everyone involved in the project is on the same page when it comes to goals, work ethic and overall commitment to the work team.

4. Decide on a strong strategy.

After a work team knows what is expected of them, it's a good idea to lay out a team strategy. Divide responsibilities, set goals and discuss immediate tasks so that all work team members are clearly informed of the approach and the method of attack for the project. A successful work team will result from a group of people working with the same goals and strategy in mind.
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5. Collaborate as a team. In order to accomplish a goal, a successful work team must work together. This will inevitably require compromise at some point, since everyone will have different ideas, approaches and personalities that may not always mesh. It's important to overlook your differences when you're part of a work team and aim to cooperate in order to accomplish the team's goal. Support everyone's ideas since creative thinking leads to creative solutions. It is this mixture of people that will help a successful work team meet goals and exceed expectations. 6. Encourage ongoing communication. As a work team works on a project, communication is absolutely necessary. The whole team needs to be involved in major decisions. As well, frequent meetings to update all members on progress are essential for keeping the project on track and the team working successfully together. Make sure to coordinate meetings times when everyone can be present in order to maintain a healthy team atmosphere. With these good team skills and some dedication to the task, any work team can be successful. 18

Conclusion
To Build a Successful team work, it depends on a good leader, the right balance of the right people and the channels of communication remaining open between them.

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