Team building

Cohesive team members spend more time together.

Team meetings are more important, when they have involve in joint problem solving.

Group breakfast, lunches are also opportunities for spending time together.

Manager have to be careful not to extend the already demanding work week for professionals.

Designed a team to be democratic

structure.

Emphasizing the word team members or

teammates and de-emphasizing the

word subordinates, employees.

Referring to yourself as the team, leader,

facilitator is also best than the title of

department manager.

Whether winning teams create good

work team or the reverse, its pay to

emphasize that yours is winning team

Reminder team members frequently of

what your team is doing that is above

average and tell them why they belong

to a winning team.

Team members should be given frequent

reminders of what they are doing right

and encouraged for their actions that

contribute to team goals.

Giving reward for group accomplishment support team work because people receive reward for what they have achieved collaboratively.

Example of team recognition follow:

1) Display wall or electronic bulletin for posting related to team activities, such as certificates of accomplishment, schedules, and miscellaneous announcement.

1. understand the benefit of teamwork.

Any project you maybe working on can

actually be done in a quicker and more

efficient way. Having team members

means better inputs and suggestions.

2. Make your team-members feelimportant: The key to a successful team isthat everyone shares the same passionand focus to achieve the desiredtarget/goal. Involve people in theproject, give them all theinformation, the goal, deadlines (if any).Make them feel that they're responsiblefor the outcome.

3. Encourage inputs and suggestions: This

would not only help establish a sense of

purpose in everyone, but would also

help as someone might come up with a

suggestion to improvise which you may

not even have thought of.

Treating team members as customerwould involve group members takingsuch action as

Inviting a team member to lunch just tomaintain working relationship.

Asking a teammate if you could help hersolve a difficult problem

Asking a teammate exactly the kind ofinput the needed so you could anoutstanding job of helping him.

Mutual trust is a bedrock condition for

high levels of teamwork and corporation.

If team members don’t trust each other

they will hold back on full mutual

corporation. Trust takes time but here

some tactics you can use to build trust :

1. Encourage team members to give honest feedback to each other ,such as saying “you correct me so often when I m talking that I feel uneasy working with you.

2. Hold candid meeting. Candor leads to trust because openly expressing one’s opinion leads other to think the person tends not to hide opinion and information.

Idea sharing is a heavy duty tactics for

developing teamwork because the

exchange of information requires a high

level of corporation.

You can enhance group cohesiveness

and therefore teamwork when team

members are located close together

and can interact frequently and easily,.

Frequent interaction often leads to

camaraderie and a feeling of

belongingness.

If you have an opportunity to visit a top

executive or a key customer, bring along

a team member. Assign him/her a

meaningful role such as presenting

technical details.

Grant the authority to the group to work

on a major problem with a minimum of

your input and direction.

Welcome all input from team members

to encourage even modest

contributions.

The idealized version of a leader who spends all of his/her time formulating visions, crafting strategic plans, & inspiring others through charisma does not fit team leadership.

Humor & laughter are excellent vehicles

for building team spirit when used with

appropriate frequency.

Conventional wisdom is that jargon

should be minimized in business.

Follow the principle of minimizing jargon,

when dealing with outsiders.

Speak to that person

about the problem.

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