Developing Teamwork (HRM)

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Developing Teamwork (HRM)

 

Teams and Team Works

 

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Team

Work group that must rely on collaboration of each member to experience optimum success and achievement.


Teamwork

Work down with an understanding and commitment to group goals on the part of all team members.

Developing teamwork is such an important leadership role that team building is said to differentiate successful from unsuccessful leaders.


Distinguishing Between Teams and Groups

Teams 

Characterized by a common commitment

Shared leadership roles

Accomplishes many collective work products

Includes individual & mutual accountability

Produce collective work product

Team leader encourages open-ended discussions and active problem-solving

Team members discuss, decide, and do real work together

 

Groups 

May not have a strong commitment

Members tend to work slightly more independently

Members have a strong leader

Emphasizes individual accountability

Sometimes produce individual work products

Group leader runs an efficient meeting

More likely to discuss, divide, and delegate

 

The Leader’s Role in the Team-Based Organization 

 

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  • Team-based organizations need leaders who are knowledgeable in the team process and can help with the interpersonal demands of teams
  • Key roles of a team-based leader
  • Building trust and inspiring teamwork
  • Coaching team members and group members toward higher levels of performance
  • Facilitating and supporting the team’s decisions
  • Expanding the team’s capabilities
  • Creating a team identity
  • Anticipating and influencing change
  • Inspiring the team toward higher levels of performance
  • Enabling and empowering group members to accomplish their work
  • Encouraging team members to eliminate low-value work

 

Fostering Teamwork

 

Leader’s Personality - Inspiring, Charm, Charisma, Personal Magnetism

Informal Techniques - Using the Leader’s Resources

Formal Techniques - Requires Organizational Structures and Policies

 

Teamwork Actions Leaders Can Take Using Their Own Resources

 

  • Defining team mission
  • Establishing a climate of trust
  • Develop a norm of teamwork, including emotional intelligence
  • Emphasize pride in being outstanding
  • Serve as a model of teamwork, including power sharing
  • Use a consensus leadership style
  • Establish urgency, demand performance standards, and provide direction
  • Encourage cooperation with another group
  • Encourage use of jargon
  • Minimize micro managing
  • Practice e-leadership for virtual teams

 

Teamwork Actions Generally Requiring Organization Structure or Policy

 

  • Designing physical structures that facilitate communication
  • Emphasizing group recognition and rewards
  • Initiating ritual and ceremony
  • Practicing open-book management
  • Selecting team-oriented members
  • Using technology that facilitates teamwork including social media
  • Blending representatives from the domestic company and foreign nationals on the team

 

Offsite Training & Team Development - Outdoor Training

 

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  • Participation in experiential activities aimed at building teamwork and leadership skills.
  • Participants acquire leadership and teamwork skills by confronting physical challenges and exceeding their self-imposed limitations.
  • Emphasis is typically on building not only teamwork but also self-confidence for leadership.
  • Outdoor training enhances teamwork by helping participants examine the process of getting things done through working with people.
  • Perception that trust, cooperation, communication, self-confidence, and teamwork improve with outdoor training.
  • Perception that team members revert to old behaviours over time, team members come and go, thereby diluting the experience for their group, and team members are sometimes exposed to harm or injury. 

 

References

 

Lumenlearning.com. (2019). Defining Teams and Teamwork | Boundless Management. [online] Available at: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-management/chapter/defining-teams-and-teamwork/.

 

Mattson, D. (2016). 12 Tips for Fostering Teamwork. [online] Entrepreneur. Available at: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/270024.


www.teamwork.com. (2019). Leadership & Teamwork: 10 ways leaders can help their teams. [online] Available at: https://www.teamwork.com/blog/10-ways-leaders-teams/


Bizjournals.com. (2019). [online] Available at: https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/how-to/growth-strategies/2013/06/the-difference-between-a-group-and-a.html.

 

Anon, (n.d.). Outbound training - team building, experiential programs. [online] Available at: http://www.mavraac.com/outbound-training/.

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