TEAM BUILDING INTERVENTIONS

Presented by: Shraddha Thakker (07bs4614)

Urmi J. Shukla (07bs4643)

What is team? Why people join teams? Benefits of team building Characteristics of effective team Strategies for team building Types of teams How team manage themselves? Case Activities for Team Building

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Collection of people relying on group collaboration achieve success and goal achievement.

Importance is on joint, concerted and coordinated effort which generate positive energy to achieve goals.

WHAT IS TEAM?

Security •Feel stronger•Reduced insecurity of remaining alone

Status •Recognition to members

Self- esteem •Feeling of self worth

Affiliation •Fulfill social needs through interaction

Power •Things cannot be achieved individually can be achieved through group actions

Goal achievement •Pooling of talents, knowledge or power enables to get job completed

WHY PEOPLE JOIN TEAMS?

Team is a group of a persons- supervisor and members interacting with each other.

• Listening • Participating• Collaborating• Supporting• Coordinating• Motivating

Effectiveness of team is not merely measured in completing a task or reaching a decision, a team must be aware of the process.

WHAT IS TEAM?

Management, complexity of task and situation requires to be creatively and collectively managed.

Capable of rapid response to situations.

Encourages high motivation and consequent achievement.

Level of commitment is high.

Collaborative strength of team and teams are task oriented.

All the members benefits from the team – individuals and organization.

Achieve higher level of productivity and performance.

Expanded job skills as they do each others job this increases organizational flexibility to deploy members in long run.

BENEFITS OF TEAM BUILDING

Clear purpose to all

• Members know their goals mission, vision

Participation

• All members are listened as there is effective interaction

Consensus decision – making

• Situation is diagnosed by joint decision and problems are solved through cooperation and supportive relationship

Leadership

• Anyone is free to volunteer and leader’s role is supportive and informal

Trust and respect for one another

CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEAMS

Close sense of identification

• High degree of group loyalty, group solidarity or cohesiveness.

Positive synergy

• Level of performance is greater due to coordinated effort

Self – assessment

• Periodic examination how well the team is functioning?

High performance teams

• All the above + commitment, ambition, mutual accountability members are interchangeable with complementary skills

CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEAMS

Diagnosis

Task accomplishments

Team relations

hips

Team and

organization

processes

STRATEGIES FOR TEAM BUILDING

STRATEGIES FOR TEAM BUILDING

Work Team

Building Activities

A. Diagnostic Meetings:• unfreeze the members to be ready• Joint data collection• Feedback data and discuss

problem areas of the group

B. Team building focused on:• Task accomplishment including

problem solving, decision making, role clarification, goal – setting

• Building and maintaining effective inter – personal relationships

• Understanding and managing group process and culture identify barriers and seek collaboration

• Role negotiation techniques.

Work team

•Comprises of section/work group i.e. supervisor and his employees

Problem – solving teams•Common in 1980’s•Quality circles, productive teams, task force etc.•Not given authority to unilaterally implement any of their actions.•Members are from the same section or department

TYPES OF TEAMS

Cross functional teams• Become vogue in 1990’s• Composed of members from different departments to

coordinate complex projects and are from same hierarchical level

• Effective way to exchange information, develop ideas and solve problems and solve complex projects

• Gradually builds trust and team work as people are from different back grounds, with different experience and perspective.Self – managed teams• Cross functional so skills are complementary

• Collective control over work and are empowered• Sharply focused objective• Near complete operational and decision making autonomy-

set their rules to operate• Every member has separate role for his department• Training and grooming of members as business managers • Self evaluation

Successful teams have a combination of qualities summed up in acronym “team work”

T :- trust E:- enthusiasm A:- ambition to succeed M:- mutual interest W:- workability of goals O:- openness to share ideas R:- resilience K:- key result areas

TEAM WORK

HOW TEAM MANAGE THEMSELVES?

Form the team

Set targets

Plan the activity

Analyze problems

Find solutions

Put into action

Validate the result

Register achievement

6-8 cross functional members

Investigate current conditions

Assign every member a role

Identify the causes

Consult the leader if necessary

Ensure unity of purpose

Is the solution permanent

Acknowledge result as target

BUILDING AN EXECUTIVE TEAM AT CAESARS

TAHOE

TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Every team’s collective purpose is to achieve tasks they cannot achieve alone.

Team Building activities help them realize this.

TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY 1

FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE OUTCOMES OF TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Length of time allocated to the activity

Team’s willingness to understand its

process

Length of time the team has been working

together

Team’s permanence

CLASSIFICATION OF TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

DIAGNOSTIC DEVELOPMENTAL

ONE OR MORE INDIVIDUALS

Instruments, interviews and feedback to understand style and motivations of group members

•Coaching•360 Degree Feedback•Third Party Interventions

GROUP OPERATIONS AND BEHAVIOUR

Surveys, interviews and team meetings to understand the group’s processes and procedures

Role ClarificationMission & Goal SettingDecision Making processNormative Change

RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE ORGANISATION

Surveys and interviews to understand how the group related to its organization context

Strategic PlanningStakeholder analysis

ORIENTATION OF ACTIVITY

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ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO ONE OR MORE INDIVIDUALS

DIGNOSTIC Helps members to better understand their motivations,

style or emotions in the group context Results in the members gaining a better understanding

of the way these affect problem solving and other group process

DEVELOPMENTAL Include coaching, 360 Degree Feedback, Assistance

with conflict, etc Attempt to alter group’s ongoing processes by

focusing on the behaviors and attitudes of individual members

ACTIVITIES ORIENTED TO GROUP’S OPERATION AND BEHAVIOR DIAGNOSTIC

Data gathered includes information on leadership styles and behavior Goals, objectives and decision making process Organizational culture, communication pattern,

interpersonal relationships and process Barriers to effective group functioning Task and related technical problems

They establish a framework within which further work can be done through developmental activities

ACTIVITIES ORIENTED TO GROUP’S OPERATION AND BEHAVIOR DEVELPOMENTAL

An inward look by the team at its own performance, behavior and culture for the purpose of dropping out dysfunctional behaviors and strengthening functional ones

They include role clarification, improving goal clarity and member commitment, modifying the decision making and problem solving process, changing norms, increasing risk taking and trust and improving communication

ACTIVITIES AFFECTING GROUP’S RELATIONSHIP WITH REST OF THE ORGANIZATION

DIAGNOSTICFocus on understanding the group’s

organizational role, how it’s goals support the larger organization and how the group interacts with other groups

DEVELOPMENTALActions that improve all of the above

TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY 2

THANK YOU………!