5. 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.
6. 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.
7. What makes a good team?
• Between 6 and 10
members
• Knowledgeable people
from all relevant
departments
• A clear, documented
purpose
8. What makes a good team?
• Mutual trust
• Mutual support
• Communications
• Team objectives
• Conflict resolution
9. What makes a good team?
• An open, pleasant
environment
• Well planned and
structured meetings
• The support of
superiors
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18.
19. Teamwork is the fuel that
allows common people to
attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Elements of Teamwork in the
Workplace
Collaboration :
Communicate and share ideas
Have a feeling of respect for each team
member’s contribution
24. 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
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. How an individual problem affects
all the members of a team…..
A short story on that…
39. Now here is an another story which tells us
how a goal can be achieved easily and
effectively if we work as a TEAM…
40. Good old lessons in teamwork
from an age-old fable
The Tortoise
And
The Hare
41. Once upon a time a tortoise and a
hare had an argument about who
was faster.
I’m the fastest
runner.
That’s not true.
The fastest runner is
me!
42. Ok, let’s have
a race.
Fine!
They decided to settle
the argument with a race.
They agreed on a route
and started off the race.
43. 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.
49. 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?
50. Can we have
another race?
Ok.
So he challenged the
tortoise to another race.
The tortoise agreed.
51. This time, the hare went all
out and ran without stopping
from start to finish. He won by
several miles.
52. 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.
54. 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?
55. 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.
56. 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
57. 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?
58. 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.
60. 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.
61. So they decided to do the
last race again, but to run
as a team this time.
Hi, buddy. How
about doing our last
race again?
Great! I think we
could do it much
better, if we two
help each other.
Hi, buddy. How
about doing our last
race again?
62. They started off, and this time the
hare carried the tortoise till the
riverbank.
64. 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.
65. 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.
66. 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.
67. 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
68. 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
69. 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
70. 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
71. Keep the following in mind:
• Teamwork improves the workingTeamwork improves the working
environment.environment.
• Teamwork keeps communicationTeamwork keeps communication
consistent.consistent.
• Teamwork relieves stress.Teamwork relieves stress.
• Teamwork reduces errors.Teamwork reduces errors.
• Teamwork keeps communication linesTeamwork keeps communication lines
open.open.
72.
73. •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
