Dynamic Teambuilding In Four Simple Steps
s our society continues to At our Phoenix based PEO Company,
become more fluid and we continually come across
dynamic, so does the need organizations that lack quality
to work closely with one another team dynamics. In fact, most
in team settings. The ages of organizations that perceive
living day-by-day in quite themselves as a team are actually
isolation and solitude are no working together as little more
more. With the ever increasing than a group of individuals.
amount of globalization and Therefore, a quality teambuilding
specialization in our workplaces, workshop should contain four
individuals are now forced to distinct steps.
work with all sorts of different
groups in both their professional 1. Define TEAM
and personal lives. However, when
we first join a new group of While it may seem a bit
individuals, it often takes a elementary to a select few, one
great deal of time before we of the primary reasons why
become acclimated to our new corporate teams fail is because
relationships. This is even more they don’t realize what working
so the case when we join a new as a team really means. More
organization or work team, often than not, they are aware of
because we have the added the various characteristics that
responsibility of familiarizing are trademarks of a good team,
ourselves with the team’s such as flexibility and
mission, goal, and objectives. dependability, but they lack an
Under such circumstances, Arizona understanding of what truly
HR consulting firms suggest that brings them together as a team.
companies invest in a quality
teambuilding workshop. The one dynamic that
differentiates a team from a
group of individuals is having The fact of the matter is that
one goal. Whether the team is there are many more individuals
composed of payroll processors, in this team than most would
recruiting specialists, or suspect. There are, of course,
custodians, they will not be able the core sales people themselves
to work efficiently as a team who actually go out on the grind
unless they are all working and sell payroll services.
toward the same goal. It is However there are also many
having a shared goal that others who contribute to this
transforms a group into a team, goal. The Sales Manager ensures
and without understanding and that the sales people are
commitment to that goal, all equipped to sell properly. The
attempts to improve teamwork will Marketing Manager designs
have limited value. products and collateral that are
attractive to potential buyers.
2. Recognize Members of the Team The Personnel Manager recruits
high quality sales professionals
Consider the example of a sales and provides training to maximize
team in a payroll processing sales. Even the cleaning staff
company, selling the outsourced has a stake because it is their
function of payroll services. Who responsibility to keep the
is a member of this sales team? offices looking attractive, so
that prospective clients will
You first have to define the feel comfortable when visiting
common goal of the sales team the branches.
before you can define who is in
it. Let us assume that the goal In this example, it is easy to
is “to increase sales of the see the need for a corporate
company”. Who then contributes to culture that recognizes and
that goal? values the contribution that
everyone makes to the sales they come to a consensus without
process. The whole company is a having weighed the pros and cons
team working the common goal of of each possible solution.
selling payroll services.
The Apollo Syndrome and
3. Identify Performance Groupthink are just two of the
Inhibitors sixteen team complexes that can
inhibit team performance. Arizona
If a team is a group of Human Resource outsourcing
individuals working toward a companies suggest researching all
common goal, then “teambuilding” sixteen team complexes and
is the process of motivating and informing your employees about
enabling that group of people to those complexes which seem most
reach their goal. In order to go prevalent in the current work
about this process, corporate environment. Unless your
directors must first inform their employees are aware of these
staffs of the characteristics and inhibitors, they will never begin
dynamics that inhibit effective to develop the skills that they
team performance. need to combat them.
The Apollo Syndrome is a good 4. Provide Performance Enablers
example of this, where highly
intelligent people often perform Aside from identifying those
worse when working together than characteristics which lead to
less able members. Another negative team performance, the
excellent example is Janis’s best thing that managers can do
concept of Groupthink, wherein to build team moral is provide
members of a team are so their staff with a list of
like-minded in their pursuit for constructive team behaviors. For
a solution to their problems that example, team members should
always be encouraged to accept
diverse perspectives when Obviously, the list of team
discussing problems and issues performance enablers is by no
confronted by the team. This will means exhausted in the
ensure that the greatest amount aforementioned list. The key for
of critical thinking takes place, any business owner is to identify
which will in turn lead to better those characteristics that would
team decisions. be most beneficial to their
team(s), and then focus on
Other beneficial team bringing those characteristics to
characteristics include making fruition in their work
sure that all members participate environments.
in discussions, being willing to
take risks, carefully listening When all four of these topics
to others, and being exceptive of have been addressed within your
constructive feedback. In tandem organization, there is no limit
with knowing what dynamics to to the potential outputs of your
avoid, these positive team work teams. Once all of your team
characteristics can be very members are focused and informed,
powerful in changing the they will be able to work
direction of a poorly performing together in a much more
team. constructive capacity.
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