Winning Together

Sunil Kumar
WINNING TOGETHER

“TEAM BUILDING”
Together Each/every one Achieves More
Objectives of this session?
To Understand Why Team is Important

To Understand how to Build a Good team

How Team work Best

How to Manage a Team

Importance of Interpersonal Interaction

Why Role of a Good Leaders is important

 Why Teams?

• Several people’s skills and knowledge

together, in-turn gives better result

• Sustain the enthusiasm and lend support

needed to complete the task.
 How do Teams Work Best?

Effective
decision
Commitment to Defined roles
systems Good personal
common and
communication relationships.
objectives responsibilities
and work
procedures ,
Is the process of enabling the group of
people to reach their goal

Process of making team effective is called

‘Team Building’
Teamwork is the ability to work
as a group toward a Common
Goal.
Lessons from Geese

for Team Building

Fact 1
As each goose flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the birds
that follow . By flying in a V-formation, the whole flock adds
72% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.

Lesson
People who share a common direction/purpose and
sense of community can get where they are going
quicker and easier because they are traveling on the
thrust of another.
Fact 2
When a goose flies out of formation, it suddenly feels the
drag and resistance of flying alone.  It quickly moves back
into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the
bird immediately in front of it.

Lesson
If we have as much sense as a goose, we stay in
formation with those headed where we want to go. 
We are willing to accept their help and give
out help to others.
Fact 3
When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back into the
formation and another goose flies to the point position.

Lesson
It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing leadership.
As with geese, people are interdependent on each other's skills,
capabilities, and unique arrangements of gifts, talents, and
resources . Shared leadership and interdependence gives us each
a chance to lead as well as opportunities to rest.
Fact 4
The geese flying in formation honk from behind to
encourage those up front to keep up their speed.

Lesson
We need to make sure our honking is encouraging.  In
groups where there is encouragement, the production is
greater.  The power of encouragement is the quality of
honking we seek.
Fact 5
When a goose gets sick, wounded, or shot down, two
geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help
and protect it.  They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly
again.  Then they launch out with another formation or
catch up with the flock.

Lesson
If we had as much sense as geese we will stand by
each other in difficult times as well as when we are
strong.
If we are willing to learn……

……we can achieve what we

want.
Collaboration Through Team Building
 BUILDING THE TEAM

Building the team is like recruitment.

One needs to select the right people and motivate them.

He understands the pressures and the soft points of people,

and uses this knowledge
to make them part of his team.

Each one of his team members is treated as special,

as being different.
 ALLOCATING ROLES

Bhuvan also assigns responsibilities to each of his

people.

Just getting the people in the team is not good enough.

They have to be told what the goal is.

A team consists of different individuals.

The objective is to make them all work together like a
fist,
like a team.
 SUPPORT THE TEAM MEMBERS

Bhuvan backs his team members to the hilt,

even when they make mistakes.

It is indeed important in any team

that the captain backs
the right person, at the right time, for the right job.
 Lessons from LAGAN
• Dream big and define the goal
• Be determined in face of
oppositions
• Make a beginning
• Building the team
• Allocating roles
• Lead from the front
• Overconfidence destroys
• Make the best of limited
resources
 The Most Effective Teams

• Share information openly

• Participate in the team’s task

• Encourage each other

• Use all of the team’s resources

 Collaboration Through Team
Building
The most effective teams arrive at decisions through
consensus by following a rational process that includes:

• Identifying the issue.

• Setting a specific objective.

• Gathering and analyzing the facts.

• Developing alternatives.

• Evaluating the alternatives.

• Deciding and acting.

 Collaboration Through Team Building

In addition to the problem solving process, teams must

also engage in

interpersonal interaction.
 Must have in an Interpersonal Relationship

• Individuals in an interpersonal relationship must

share common goals and objectives.
• They should have more or less similar interests and
think on the same lines.
• It is always better if individuals come from similar
backgrounds.(However this may not be possible in
most occasions and situations)
 Must have in an Interpersonal
Relationship..Cont

• Individuals in an interpersonal relationship must

respect each other’s views and opinions. A sense of
trust is important.
• Transparency plays a pivotal role in interpersonal
relationship. It is important for an individual to be
honest and transparent.
• No matter how hard you work or how many brilliant
ideas you may have, if you can’t connect with the
people who work around you, your professional life
will suffer.
Stages in Team Building

Forming
Storming

Norming
Performing
• Forming -Leader Directs

•Storming -Leaders Coach

•Norming -Leader facilitates and

enables
•Performing -Leader delegates and
oversees
 Team Roles - Leader

• Encourage and maintain open communication.

• Help the team develop and follow team norms.
• Help the team focus on the task.
• Deal constructively with conflict.
 Leading A Team

 Lead – don’t be the whole team

You can’t do everything yourself
 Lead – don’t follow
Don’t let the team members drive the team
 Lead – don’t drive
Don’t be a dictator
 Characteristics of Good Team
Leader

 Build Trust
 Train members for empowerment
 Provide full information to team
 Knows all team members
 Develop team spirit
 Encourage members to excel
 Create an enthusiastic environment
 Shares success with members
 Who is a Team Leader

 Contact point for communication between

team and management
 Full-fledged team member
 Assists the team by immediately implementing
changes that are within the bounds of the team
A fully functioning team can…

 Work together successfully

 Solve problems and reach decisions in a way that
incorporates individual input
 Reach decisions through consensus
 Can adapt to change
 Achieve or exceed desired results
Giving Constructive Feedback
• Be descriptive.

• Don't use labels.

• Don’t exaggerate.

• Don’t be too judgmental.

Receiving Feedback

• Listen carefully.
• Ask questions for clarity.
• Acknowledge the feedback.
• Acknowledge the valid points.
• Take time to sort out what you heard.
Key factors to successful performance of a
team – S.C.O.R.E

Strategy
Clear Roles and Responsibility
Open Communication
Rapid Response
Effective Leadership
THANK YOU