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Team Bonding: Team Bonding Is An On-Going Process Through Which Teams Become

Team bonding is an ongoing process that builds trust and improves communication between team members, increasing loyalty to each other and the team. Shared positive experiences, such as fun team activities, can help deepen friendships and the bonds within a team. Key factors that enable effective team bonding include trust, open communication, and a focus on common goals. The five dysfunctions of a team are the absence of trust between members, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.

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Team Bonding: Team Bonding Is An On-Going Process Through Which Teams Become

Team bonding is an ongoing process that builds trust and improves communication between team members, increasing loyalty to each other and the team. Shared positive experiences, such as fun team activities, can help deepen friendships and the bonds within a team. Key factors that enable effective team bonding include trust, open communication, and a focus on common goals. The five dysfunctions of a team are the absence of trust between members, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.

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TEAM BONDING

WHAT IS TEAM BONDING?

Team bonding is an on-going process through which teams become


closer and build trust and ease of communication. Bonding involves
increasing loyalty to one another and to the team.

One popular way of helping this process is through positive shared


experiences in the form of fun activities. Friendships deepen through
sharing experiences and it's the same with teams. These shared
experiences can be positive and negative. Often working conditions
are sufficient to give these experiences but sometimes the negative
can be more common and so a fun team bonding day can help to
restore balance.

At the purely fun end of social team bonding simply going out for a
drink together can be effective.

FACTORS ENABLING TEAM BONDING:-

Trust and Communication – The Keys to Successful Teams:-


Today, with business competition, customer expectations, new
technology, and many other developments, it is more critical than
ever to build teamwork in your organization. The many challenges
that your organization faces, the more critical it becomes that
teamwork is effective. The key elements to successful teamwork are
trust, communication and effective leadership; a focus on common
goals with a collective responsibility for success (or failure). However,
without trust and communication the team will have difficulty
functioning effectively. 
The whole process of organizational teamwork must begin with a
company leadership team that creates a business strategy and a
focus on the critical goals of the enterprise. Next there is the process
of communicating the vision, values and mission of the organization
to a team, or teams that will be responsible for planning and
executing the mission and building trust in the teams and within the
teams to carry out their assigned responsibilities. Marketing plans, as
well as other operational plans, will succeed only with team-based
planning and execution.

When recruiting for senior executive positions, hiring managers and


executive search consultants will look for clear examples of your
ability to build, lead and manage teams. So what does it take to
create success through teamwork?
 
Five Key Elements to Managing Teams

As explained by Patrick Lencioni( Patrick Lencioni is a highly successful


management consultant and the author of several books. He has been
described by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the most in-demand speakers
in America.”) in “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”, senior executives,
middle management and assigned team leaders, must foster and
expect that team member activities include the following
characteristics:

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
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.

Mr. Lencioni’s diagnosis is helpful in understanding team dynamics.


Yet, a straight forward prescription for building successful teams is
to:-
A. Build attitudes of trust among team members;
B. B. Communicate openly among team members;
C. Focus on common goals that are related to a clear purpose. The
purpose, of course, must be based on the business vision, values and
mission of the company or, at the very least, the specific mission
assigned the team by company management.
Factors enabling dysfunction of a team:-

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team


Set out in a pyramid, is as follows:
Absence of Trust – team members are wary of appearing vulnerable
to each other or to own up to mistakes or weaknesses. This prevents
them from asking for help when they most need it.
Fear of Conflict – in situations where trust is absent, team members
are incapable of engaging in any meaningful discussions. This, in
turn, leads to conflict which breeds factionalism, resentment and
pettiness.
Lack of Commitment – because ideas and problems cannot be
discussed and analyzed or hammered out, team members find it
difficult to commit to decisions, fearing they will be blamed if they
make the wrong one. This lack of direction leads to disgruntlement
among the employees.
Avoidance of Accountability – where this is no clear plan of action,
even the most driven and focused of employees hesitate to call their
peers out on actions or behaviors that may be counterproductive.
This lowers the overall morale of the team which hampers business
growth.
Inattention to Results – The lack of accountability means team
members have a tendency to place their own emotional and career
needs ahead of collective results, thereby losing sight of the need for
collective achievement. As a result, the business suffers.

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