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The document discusses several aspects of effective teamwork, including: 1) Teams progress through various stages as they develop, from forming to storming to norming to performing. 2) For a group to be considered a true team, members must share at least one goal that can only be achieved through joint efforts. 3) Key factors for team success include brainstorming, structured problem-solving, action planning, learning from experiences, and building trust through relationships. 4) Organizations can support teams by defining clear goals, providing feedback and resources, and rewarding team performance.

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Team Working

The document discusses several aspects of effective teamwork, including: 1) Teams progress through various stages as they develop, from forming to storming to norming to performing. 2) For a group to be considered a true team, members must share at least one goal that can only be achieved through joint efforts. 3) Key factors for team success include brainstorming, structured problem-solving, action planning, learning from experiences, and building trust through relationships. 4) Organizations can support teams by defining clear goals, providing feedback and resources, and rewarding team performance.

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Team working

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Are you performing "work in groups"? Or experiencing "teamwork"?

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ORGANISATION IS A CONSTELLATION OF GROUPS

VERTICAL GROUPS, INTERDEPENDANT GROUPS HORIZONTAL GROUPS, DIAGONAL GROUPS


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Teams are responsible and accountable for defined actions, and have shared or independent decision making responsibility.

The team replaces the factors that promote division, fear, competition, and conflict with factors that promote unity, risk-taking, co-operation, co-ordination, communications, and collaboration.
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Group comes to the project with a personal bag full of skills, talents, resources and ideas.

Members individually use their own skills and contribute what they can.

They are productive but limited by the contents of their own bags.

Members open up bags for use by the entire group. The team operates as a cohesive unit that uses all the best individual assets of its members.

There's cooperation and sharing that recognises the group is worth more than the sum of its individual parts.

To experience teamwork, all members must fully open their bags


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If there is something you need from my bag, you can use it. It's at your disposal! And I can find a particular tool or resource I need in your bag. We both know if we keep our bags to ourselves, we simply have one.

But by sharing and trusting we have two. Not to mention the magic of synergy that happens when we work together.

Team's greatest asset is the collection of individuals' skills and talents


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Group vs. Team


Do all members of the group share at least one goal that can be accomplished only through the joint efforts of all the members
If the answer is YES , the group is a team
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Team life cycle - Stage 1


Team is: Underdeveloped Forming Concerned with who fits where Signs may include: Self conscious politeness Embarrassment Enthusiasm Stilted communication Honeymoon feelings Not much achieved work-wise

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Team life cycle - Stage 2


Team is: Signs may include:

Conflict Experimenting Lively debate and Storming discussion Concerned with how we Trying out the ways of work together working as a team Things beginning to be achieved
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Team life cycle - Stage 3


Team is: Mature Performing Concerned with achieving the goals Signs may include: Relaxed, purposeful environment Feelings of confidence Most talk being about the job Goals being achieved

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Team life cycle - Stage 4


Team is: Ending Reviewing Concerned with breaking up and moving on to new tasks Signs may include: Tying up loose ends Celebrating achievement Feelings of sadness Planning for new teams Saying goodbyes

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What makes a team succeed


Brainstorming
Good brainstorming sessions..
Encourage contribution from everyone Give everyone an equal chance Build team unity Ownership of the decision Shared Leadership
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What makes a team succeed


Structured problem-solving/ decisionmaking process Define the problem Present the background Generate ideas Group ideas Choose the idea(s)
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What makes a team succeed


Action-planning
clarity in objectives & agreed goals no one is nominated for an action unless he/she agrees actions must be described in precise terminology, understood by all the team must agree that each action is worth doing
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What makes a team succeed


Learning
what did we do that worked well what did we do that didnt work well so what shall be the action next time what have we learnt from the achievements

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Tips to enhance teams skills


Be inclusive and welcome diversity Team members are like puzzle pieces of many sizes and shapes. We have to learn the strengths and the shortcomings of the pieces to discover how they best fit together.

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Tips to enhance teams skills


Recognise habits and behaviours

Be aware of emerging behaviours. What are some of the normal behaviours in your team or work environment?

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Tips to enhance teams skills


Teamwork is a fluid process

Break the rules and stretch out of your normal habits and behaviours When team members are curious enough to challenge processes, it builds comradeship Challenge the team to challenge the status quo.
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Tips to enhance teams skills


Focus on strengths and applaud the efforts of others Members may resist taking risks It's a new process for some who fear giving up their comfort zones Working openly with others is different because it requires change and makes some people apprehensive
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Tips to enhance teams skills


We must appreciate the risks members take Any glimpse of sharing must be recognised The more positive reinforcements, the better. Applaud members for every effort from the minuscule to the magnificent.

"The things that get rewarded get done."


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Tips to enhance teams skills


Share information many times in many ways

Make everyone's skills available to the entire team Share efforts in every possible way to let every team member see, touch, hear and affect that big picture. Share information so everyone understands.
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Tips to enhance teams skills


Bring your best to the team
In Further Along The Road Less Travelled, M. Scott Peck writes: "Do what you are called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realise that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender."
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Tips to enhance teams skills


Build trust by building relationships Team members need time to share thoughts - formally and informally They need time together in smaller groups as well as with the entire team They may have worked together for many years, but there is still so much tohttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/hrcom learn about each other
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Pitfalls in teamworking
Lengthy, unproductive meetings Passing the buck Intra-team rivalry Conflict among the members

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Pitfalls in teamworking
Personality clashes Destructive communication patterns Groupthink Team nostalgia

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Organisations role in teams success


Give teams a clearly defined set of goals Give teams a consistent message about what they are supposed to achieve Team reward as well as individual reward Give team feedback on how well it is doing- honestly & positively
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Organisations role in teams success


Consider the impact on team before moving its members around Senior management team should set an example to other teams in the organisation Give teams the resources they reasonably request to achieve the goals Support team leaders
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Happy Teamworking

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What makes a superteam


Effective & enjoyable communication among members Members pool resources for effective team working Members committed to each others growth & success, besides achievement of team goals
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What makes a superteam


Continuous improvement of its own methods and outputs Synergy High levels of creativity Ability to deal with difficult & conflict provoking issues

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