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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Making A Team Work.

Who can go it alone in a business world ?. Only to those who had magnificent ideas and insights are all in a day's work. The rest of us need the help of others who pool their talents and creativity, their energy, motivation, and support into work teams to achieve a common goal or goals.

Todays, teams are the way work gets done in organization. Individual contribute brilliant ideas and continue to make insightful decisions, but eventually those ideas and decisions are improved or implemented in the context of a team.

A team is define as a group of individuals that have a common goals, something that everyone understand and believes in. In to achieving the goals is clearly the reason the team exists. People have to work together to achieve the goal.

People on a team are dependent on each other's expertise, perspective and efforts. When the power of those different perspectives and skills are effectively and efficiently brought to bear on a problem or challenge, the results can be awesome.

Finally, when a team goal is achieved, there is a payoff for all the team members. Achievement is shared, rewards are distributed, everyone wins.

In making a team, firstly, is to have all members pay close attention to how ideas are expressed, whether team members are listened to and included, whether the team is working. Thus being attentive to the team process is a critical ingredient to success.

Secondly, a team wants to be world-class needs to stop and ponder how it is doing as a team every once in a while. Improvement comes through reflection.

Thirdly, remember, there are skills that sharpen the effectiveness of a teams. These skills can be learned and practiced by the team.

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