TemFrom - "Twelve Tips for Team Building: How to Build Successful Work Teams"
November 05, 2007
From - "Twelve Tips for Team Building: How to Build Successful Work Teams"
By Susan M. Heathfield
In a team-oriented environment, you contribute to the overall success of the organization. You work with fellow members of the organization to produce these results. Even though you have a specific job function and you belong to a specific department, you are unified with other organization members to accomplish the overall objectives. The bigger picture drives your actions; your function exists to serve the bigger picture.
You need to differentiate this overall sense of teamwork from the task of developing an effective intact team that is formed to accomplish a specific goal. People confuse the two team building objectives. This is why so many team building seminars, meetings, retreats and activities are deemed failures by their participants. Leaders failed to define the team they wanted to build. Developing an overall sense of team work is different from building an effective, focused work team when you consider team building approaches.
Twelve Cs for Team Building
Successful team building, that creates effective, focused work teams, requires attention to each of the following.
- Clear Expectations: Has executive leadership clearly communicated its expectations for the team’s performance and expected outcomes?
- Context: Do team members understand why they are participating on the team?
- Commitment: Do team members want to participate on the team? Do team members feel the team mission is important?
- Competence: Does the team feel that it has the appropriate people participating?
- Charter: Has the team taken its assigned area of responsibility and designed its own mission, vision and strategies to accomplish the mission.
- Control: Does the team have enough freedom and empowerment to feel the ownership necessary to accomplish its charter?
- Collaboration: Does the team understand team and group process?
- Communication: Are team members clear about the priority of their tasks?
- Creative Innovation: Is the organization really interested in change?
- Consequences: Do team members feel responsible and accountable for team achievements?
- Coordination: Are teams coordinated by a central leadership team that assists the groups to obtain what they need for success?
- Cultural Change: Does the organization recognize that the team-based, collaborative, empowering, enabling organizational culture of the future is different than the traditional, hierarchical organization it may currently be?
Labels: Corporate, Facilitation, Teambuilding, Training
posted by Jay @ 11/05/2007,
