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Teamwork and High Performance Teams: Prepared by Himanshu Sachdeva Kashish Malhotra Varun Goyal
Teamwork and High Performance Teams: Prepared by Himanshu Sachdeva Kashish Malhotra Varun Goyal
What is teamwork?
A team is a small group of people with
complementary skills, who work actively together to achieve a common purpose for which they hold themselves collectively accountable. Teams are one of the major forces behind revolutionary changes in contemporary organizations.
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Teams that run things. Have formal responsibility for leading other groups. Teams that make or do things. Functional groups that perform ongoing tasks.
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performance objectives.
Have the right mix of skills. Possess creativity.
achieve teamwork.
Team building helps in achieving teamwork.
Team building.
A sequence of planned activities designed to gather
and analyze data on the functioning of a group and to initiate changes designed to improve teamwork and increase group effectiveness.
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Continuous improvement approach. The manager, team leader, or members take responsibility for ongoing team building. Outdoor experience approach. Members engage in physically challenging situations that require teamwork.
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teamwork:
Presents challenges to people accustomed to
more traditional ways of working. Creates complications due to multiple and shifting memberships. Requires team leaders and members to deal positively with group dynamics issues. Requires ongoing team building.
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Relationships.
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entry problems.
Tough battler. Friendly helper.
Objective thinker.
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control.
May show extraordinary support for others, behave
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minded manner. Concerned with fit between individual and group goals.
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leadership.
The team leader and team members share in the
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Encouraging the participation of others. Trying to harmonize differences of opinion. Praising the contributions of others. Agreeing to go along with a popular course of action.
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disruptive behaviors:
Being overly aggressive toward other members.
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Person-role conflict.
Interrole conflict.
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negative implications.
Performance norms.
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members.
Are energetic when working on team activities. Are not prone to absenteeism or turnover.
Group goals. Membership composition. Member interactions. Group size. Competition within and between teams. Rewards. Location. Duration.
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teams.
Impact on supervisors and others accustomed
all organizations.
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