Core skills – 7
Team building
When the manager of
the other 2/3 were asked why they didn’t spend much time and effort to improve their
team, they respond with the following reasons:
- I don’t know how to build a more effective team.
- I am concerned that the possible negative effects will outweigh the benefits.
- I don’t feel that developing an effective team is rewarded in our company.
- My subordinates feel they don’t need it and it takes too much time.
- I don’t have the support of my boss to spend time in team development.
Why? Because teams may
have common problems found in team building.
Examples are as below:
Examples are as below:
- Loss of production or team output
- Increase of grievances or complaints from the team
- Complaints from users or customers’ absolute quality of services
- Evidence of conflicts or hostility among team members.
- Confusion about assignment, miss signal and unclear relationship.
- Misunderstood decisions or decisions not carried out properly.
- Apathy and general lack of interest or involvement of team members.
- Lack of initiative, imagination or innovation.
- Ineffective meetings, low participation or poor decision making.
- High dependence on or negative reaction to the manager.
Each food has its own ingredients. Team building does have its team components. What are the components of a team? 4 main components of team building are
- The context for the team.
- The composition for the team.
- The competencies for the team.
- The changed management skills for the team.
