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Turning Groups Into

Effective Teams

JONAVIE C. DENONONG
Reporter
What Is a Team?

Team – is a group of individuals


who come together to achieve a
common goal or purpose.
Work team - formal group made
up of interdependent individuals
who are responsible for the
attainment of a goal
Work teams are popular in
organizations
Why Are Work Teams Popular?
Creates
esprit de corps

Allows managers
Increases to do more strategic
performance Management
Why Use
Teams?

Takes advantage
Increases
of workforce
flexibility
diversity
Types of Teams
Purpose Structure
• Product development • Supervised
• Problem solving • Self-managed
• Reengineering
• Any other organizational
purposes desired

Membership Duration
• Functional • Permanent
• Cross-functional • Temporary
Types of Teams (cont.)
Teams based on membership
 Functional teams - composed of a manager and

her/his employees from one functional area


 issues of authority, decision making, and leadership are
relatively simple and clear
 attempt to solve problems in specific functional area

 Cross-functional teams - members come from


different functional areas
 hybridgrouping of individuals who are experts in various
specialties
Types of Teams (cont.)

Teams based on structure


 Supervised - under the direction of a

manager
 Self-managed - operate without a manager
 responsible for a complete work process or segment
 assumes the responsibilities of managing itself

 have authority to make and implement decisions,

finish projects, and address problems


 organizations plan to expand their use in the future
Types of Teams (cont.)

Virtual team - physically


dispersed members are linked by
computer technology
miss the normal give-and-take or face-
to-face discussions
tend to be task oriented
Characteristics of Effective Teams
Characteristics of Effective Teams (contd.)
Clear Goals - members understand and support
the goals to be achieved
Relevant Skills - members have the necessary
technical and interpersonal skills
Mutual Trust - members are confident in each
others’ ability, character, and integrity
 strongly influenced by the organization’s culture
Unified Commitment - loyalty and dedication to
the team
 membership in the team an important aspect of the self
Good Communication - messages are readily
understood
 healthy dose of feedback from team members
Characteristics of Effective Teams (contd.)
Negotiating Skills - flexibility requires
members to possess these skills
 must be able to confront and reconcile differences
arising from changing problems
Appropriate Leadership - provide help in
difficult situations
 plays role of coach or facilitator
Internal and External Support - team
requires a sound infrastructure
 team should have external resources required to
perform its work
CURRENT CHALLENGES IN
MANAGING TEAMS
Getti •Cooperate with

ng others
•Confront differences
•Sublimate personal
empl interest for the
greater good of the
oyee team
•Share Information.
s to:
Co-operating With Others
There are many thing which stop an team members from co-
operate with other
team members. Such as – Shyness, Ego, Jealousy, Lack of
Confidence etc.
That’s how managers can get employees to co-operate with
others :
SHARING
LEARNING
TEACHING
RESPECT

RESPONSI
SUBLIMATING PERSONAL INTEREST FOR THE
GREATER GOOD OF THE TEAM
Sublimating personal interest for the
greater good of the team is to modify your
emotions or inspirations of personal life to
work for the team.
SHARE
INFORMATION
Sharing is the joint use of a resource or space. Sharing is a basic
component of human interaction and is responsible for
strengthening social ties and ensuring a person’s well-being.
Most importantly it strengthen the bonding between team
members. But now a days
Team members don’t want to share information with each other
because of competition and gaining attention from leader or boss.
So it is a big challenges in managing teams.
Imagine the scene. A FedEx 727 jet and a giant U.S. Air
Force cargo jet at an impasse on the taxiway, another
jet trying to reach a parking spot at the terminal,
another headed for a runway, U.S. Navy and Canadian
helicopters swarming overhead, a Bolivian DC-10 just
landing, and a Boeing 757 carrying former President
Bill Clinton just landing. What a nightmare! In the
first few days after the devastating earthquake in
Haiti, the airport in the capital city, Port-Au-Prince,
was a chaotic free-for-all.70 Aid planes were jostling
for space on the single open runway and landing
randomly. Then, the evening after the earthquake, a
small team of U.S. Air Force special-operations troops
whose job is to control air traffic set up to do what
they’ve been trained to do.
The airport’s control tower was too badly
damaged to be used. So, operating from a
folding table on a patch of dirt, the team
worked to safely bring in much-needed
supply-laden cargo jets. It didn’t take long to
establish a system. Haitian aviation officials,
assisted by American and Canadian air
traffic controllers, contacted planes 30 or 40
miles out and kept order as the aircraft
headed toward Portau- Prince. When the
planes got within 10 or 20 miles, the Air
Force team of controllers took over and
guided the aircraft onto the lone runway.
Despite the system, the team of controllers
found themselves in conflict with arriving
pilots and their governments. For instance,
one argument arose with a French crew
over who got to land first and stay parked
the longest. Despite the challenges, the
small team safely directed traffic in the
crowded skies. Over the days and weeks,
Q1 # As this story illustrated, sometimes teams
have to move quickly. How do you get a team up
and running quickly?
Answers:
To get a team up and running quickly takes everyone
understanding and adopting the group goals and
professionalism on the part of members. In this case,
lives were on the line. The population was devastated
and needed immediate assistance. The air traffic
controllers also understood the danger posed by having
so many aircraft fly and land in a congested area.
Bad team leader Good team
leader

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