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Team Building
“If everyone gives one thread, the
poor man will have a shirt”
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• What is the meaning of a team?
- A team is defined as a group of
individuals organized to work together to
accomplish a set of objectives that cannot
be achieved effectively by one individual
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• Whether it is an organization, church, club,
or institution, teams must be formed in
order to increase productivity, create
synergy, and improve on the overall
development. Building a winning team far
exceed just hiring a bunch of talented and
skilled individuals.
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• It means hiring people who can work well
together
• It means developing a shared vision and
commitment
• It means physically bringing people
together in formal group meetings for open
discussion of broad-based issues
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• It means encouraging positive, informal
interactions between group members. It
means instilling a winning attitude
throughout the organization
• It means watching for and quickly trying to
reverse team-building problems such as
jealousy, cynicism and defensive behaviour
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• In order to create an effective team, each
member must contribute to the process and
this requires that each member must take
responsibility for the team’s success. To
build a winning team, people need to be
shown what direction the company is
headed in and to buy into that direction
because every single member is responsible
for the success or failure of the team
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• As a team member, your role is not to be
just an attendee, spectator, or complainer
but an active participating member in
achieving the team’s goals. This is not an
easy job but it is the responsibility as a team
member to ensure that your job is
completed to the best of your ability.
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There are several characteristics that make up a team
and they are as follows –
• There must be an awareness of unity on the part of
all the team members
• Team members must have a chance to contribute,
and learn from and work with others
• Each team member must have the ability to act
together towards a common goal
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• Team members must share a sense of why the
team exists and must invest in accomplishing the
mission and goals
• Team members must know what needs to be done
next, by whom, and when to achieve team goals
• Team members should know their roles in getting
tasks done and when to allow a more skillful
member to do a certain task
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• Team members must clearly understand
authority and decision making lines
• Team members must deal with conflict
openly and this is considered very important
to decision-making and personal growth
• Team members should feel that their unique
personalities are appreciated and well
utilized
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• Group norms and expectations for working
together are set and seen as standards for everyone
in the groups
• Each team member must find team meetings
efficient and productive and look forward to this
time together
• Team members must know clearly when the team
has met with success and share in this equally and
proudly
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• Opportunity for feedback and updating
skills are provided and taken advantage of
by all team members
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• Building a Team
An intricate part of creating a winning team is to
have continuous group meetings. Meetings, or
even celebrations with as many people as possible
from the entire organization help to build a feeling
of solidarity throughout the organization. It is
important for everyone to participate in smaller
group meeting where work is done and decision
can be made.
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• Therefore, each team member should feel
apart of the process and this adds
motivation to the group. Team meetings
should be held on a regular basis that gives
team members the opportunity to voice their
opportunity on the direction that their team
has taken and to provide feedback on
substantive issues.
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• Getting people to work together The most difficult part of building a team is
motivating and encouraging positive
informal communication between team
members especially when the team leader is
not present.
• There are several ways to combat this
problem and here are a few tips –
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• Assign specific projects for 2 team members to
work on together
• Try to arrange for close proximity of offices
• Create an incentive-pay plan based on a common
goals such as profitability
• Have a specific part of the salary review
dependent upon “interaction with others’
• Take your team off-site for formal meetings as
well as casual get-together to build a sense of
bonding
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• Team destroyers
• There are 3 factors that can destroy a team
• Jealousy – This emotion seems to raise its
ugly head whenever a new team member is
hired into the group that may seem to be
more qualified. Go out of your way as team
leader to let the other team members know
how much their work is appreciated
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• Cynicism – Some people are just negative
by nature. Others might feel that the
institution cannot possibly prosper. Efforts
must be made to emphasize the institution’s
positive achievements to the group. Do not
hesitate to confront any openly cynical
individual and demand their behaviour
change at once.
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• Lack of confidence – Some team members
may lack confidence in themselves and
view attacks on their opinions as personal
attacks therefore when statements such as
“are you saying my years of experience
does not count” occur, Stop any discussion
like this immediately and, in a private oneon-one meeting, patiently point out the
defensive behaviour
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There are 4 stages of Team Building –
• Stage 1 – Forming – In this stage team members
rely on safe, patterned behaviour and look to the
team leader for guidance and direction.
• Stage 2 – Storming – This stage is characterized
by the competition and conflict that occurs in this
newly formed team. Although conflicts may or
may not surface as group issues, they still do exist
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• Stage 3 – Norming – During this stage, team
members become aware and acknowledge the
contribution of all team members as well as the
solving team issues
• Stage 4 – Performing – This stage is not reached
by all teams. If a team is able to evolve to this
stage then people can work independently, in
subgroups, or as a total unit with equal facility.
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• Within the boundaries of a team, each
member of the team assumes a role. These
roles can be the following –
• The summarizer – this individual urges the
group to acknowledge consensus and reach
a decisions well as they might be seen as the
“energizer bunny
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• The Orienter – This individual prevents the team
from wandering too far from the topic.
• The Fact Seeker – This individual tests the reality
to make sure the decision the team is about to
make is doable
• The Initiator – This individual gets the team
started on the right foot by always beginning
discussions with the question “How should we
approach this task?”
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• The Harmonizer – This individual realizes
that conflicts is inevitable and that if left
unresolved, it is the biggest barrier to a
team’s achieving health and success
• The Analyzer – This individual watches for
changes in the vital signs of the team and
brings these changes to the attention of the
team
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• The Gatekeeper – This individual is
concerned primarily with team
communication and participation
• The Encourager – This individual builds
and sustains the team energy by showing
support for everyone’s efforts, ideas, and
achievements
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• Once team members assume these roles
then it opens the way for increase
productivity and overall unity and task
completion. Depending on the amount of
team members involved, team members
may assume more than one role within the
team dynamics.
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• Every organization/institution/company would like
to cultivate high performance teams to achieve
their set goals, vision, or objectives. The
characteristics that are required for good team
building are as follows –
• A high level of interdependence among team
members
• A team leader who has good people skills and is
committed to team approach
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• Each team member is willing to contribute
• The team is able to develop a relaxed climate for
communication
• Team members are able to develop mutual respect
and trust
• Team members are prepared to take risks to
achieve their goals
• Team members roles are defined
• Team members know how to examine team and
individual errors without personal attacks
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• Team members have the capacity to create
new ideas
• Each team member knows he/she can
influence the team agenda for the good of
the overall objective