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What Everyone Should Know About Teamwork
Teams at their best
Teams reach their highest performance level whenever each individual, as a part of them, learns how to develop and specialize in a certain field, providing to his or her team the means to further collective improvement.
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The challenge of the teamwork
Teamwork is perceived as being extremely efficient in our everyday working structure, as it develops social skills in addition to enabling a faster achievement of goals.
However, each and every person who is part of the team has to give his or her best in order for the team itself to function successfully.
The drawback of working groups
The so-called 'working groups' tend to be successful as long as the issue that needs to be solved has a low level of complexity. However, for goals that are more challenging, they seldom prove to be useful.
A working group's transformation
Whenever a working group has as goal to become a real team, difficulties are to be expected. Going from working individually to working together, as a team, requires great skills of leadership as well as determination and patience from every single member of the team.
On the way to a 'real team'
The moment the members of a team have reached a certain level of communication and agreement related to the team's general goals, it becomes easier to make the transition from the individual work to the collective one.
Moreover, the team is now more likely to have greater success, as higher performance is often easier to achieve when cooperating with others.
True teamwork
True teamwork is defined by common goals, work methods and a shared vision. Furthermore, the mutual support makes the goals more attainable overall.
Teams at their best
Teams reach their highest performance level whenever each individual, as a part of them, learns how to develop and specialize in a certain field, providing to his or her team the means to further collective improvement.
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Group Development Theory
Dr. Bruce Tuckman, a psychology professor, synthesized team development into four basic stages: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.
Forming
This stage of teamwork is all about first meetings and first impressions.
What everyone needs most is a clear understanding of their part in the journey and a setup for building emotional connections. Setting goals together puts their skills and interests into the open.
Storming
Most teams go through the storming stage in some form or another because discord is inevitable. The key value to emphasize in the team is positive intent.
A little conflict is needed to bring upfront weak spots in projects and to bring new valid arguments to the table. But constant storming leads to the destruction of productivity, projects, and ultimately, the team itself.
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The importance of managing expectations
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Communicate clearly and frequently
Communication is essential and comes first when setting expectations with your team.
Have a plan in place from the start to ensure your team understands what you are expecting from them.
For example, should they report every task they complete? Is there a set amount of time in which they should be able to reply to emails?
Roles and responsibilities documents
Your team will work as a unit if every member is aware of their own responsibilities and the importance of their work in the organization.
This can be accomplished by creating a document that describes their role in the company in detail.
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Organizational change management (OCM)
It refers to any event or program an enterprise undertakes that causes major disruption to daily operations.
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Benefits of change management
Change management reduces the risk that a new system or other change will be rejected by the enterprise.
By itself, it does not reduce costs or increase sales. Instead, it increases the teamwork required for the enterprise accept the change and operate more efficiently.
Requirements for change management success
- The right executive sponsor: responsible for developing the case for change and obtaining the necessary OCM resources.
- Cultural willingness to adapt and change: all organizations resist change to some degree.
- Individual willingness to change: individuals must be willing to examine new information and adopt new behaviors and approaches.
- Rewards and consequences: major changes need to be reinforced by rewards and consequences.
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