Teams

What's the definition of Teams?

• one or two people who are working together on simultaneous tasks

• one person who strives to achieve several goals of the organization

• The ability to cooperate and communicate effectively with others to achieve a common goal

What is the purpose of Teamwork?

• People working together for the same organization aim to make the organization profitable.

• Provides a framework that will decrease the ability of employees to participate in planning, problem-solving, and decision-making.

• It does not helps to promote communication amongst members

Match the following

• create a goal that is realistic and achievable

• Specific

• define a clear, specific goal (ask the 5 W’s - who, what, why, where & which)

• Attainable

• assign a target date/deadline to complete the goal

• Relevant

• make sure the goal aligns with the organization

• Measurable

• how do you track/ monitor your progress?

• Time Bound

Tick the advantages of Teamwork

• Teamwork can create scheduling conflicts, causing difficulties for all member to meet at a specific time

• Work can be divided unequally in certain situations

• Helps teams divide a large project into smaller tasks.

• Some members contributions can be disregarded if they do not take a strong stand in a team

Tick the disadvantages of Teamwork

• Teamwork can create unhealthy levels of competition.

• Helps offer opportunities for better communication and team building and bonding.

• Helps teams create brainstorming opportunities and this will help generate create ideas.

• Helps teams divide a large project into smaller tasks.

What are some of the characteristics of successful business teams:

• Poor team relations and communication will not help the team to achieve goals, especially if clarification is not sought

• Each team should have defined roles with the required skill set and thinking styles needed.

• Successful teams encourage differences in opinions which give rise to out of the box and great innovative ideas.

• Suppressing alternate suggestions and opinions will only be detrimental to achieving team goals and gaining a completive advantage.

Write 4 tips to identify team roles:

Importance of Team roles:

• It increases confusion and challenges for staff that does not possess certain skills to accomplish a task.

• It reduces duplication as people with specific skills take charge of those tasks e.g. finance or budgeting

• Undefined team roles help with monitoring progress on tasks and for members taking responsibility for task completion.

• Defined team roles help with the de-motivation of team members and for others to unrecognize their contributions to the team.

Value of using theoretical models

• Provides a framework that will decrease the ability of employees to participate in planning, problem-solving, and decision-making.

• People working together for the same organization aim to make the organization profitable.

• It helps members to collaborate and clarify misunderstandings with other members.

• It helps team leaders to identify specific elements that may be lacking in their team.

Peter Five Team Model includes:

• underachiever

• Challenger

• Doer

• Enthusiast