Team
Work
Effictive
Team Work
1) Focus-
Task, team
2) Clarification-Clarify
task,mission statements.
3) Quiet
member-Shoud speak out,Team should encourager.
4) Sign
posting-Recall team goals,reacall larger picture.
5) Dominant
member-Are you that person? Can summarize and ask other views.
6) Avoid
single solution-Generate alternatives ,pick one option, monitor the out comes.
7) Written
records-This clarifies decision made, record decision on large display.
8) Active
communication-Speaker shoud express ideal such that listener should understand
that.
9) Feed
back-Negative,Positive.
10)
Handling
failure-Do not blame,prevent repetition,examine causes.
11)
Handling dead lock-Create middle strategy,toss a
coin,create sub teams.
Factors Affecting Team Performance or Ineffective
1)Ineffective teamwork skill-
1)Fault
finding-Seeking sympathy,blaming others,taking all the credit.
2)Criticizing
3)Aggression
4) Sarcasm
5)Wasting time
6)Withdrawing
7)Domination
8)Manipulation
9)Doing nothing to
solve problems competing with other members,taking behand other back.
10)Group think-Lack
of awareness pressure to conform.
2)Social
Loafing-
Suppose a team needs to work together on developing
product.The performance of the team is evaluated based on the final product that is developed.
In such a case two thinks can happen.
All team members are work hard on developing the product.
Or
One or two of the team members work hard,the remaining
members don’t perform to their best possible capacity.
Team
Role
1)Summarizer
2)Guide
3)Information gatherer
4)Initiator
1 to 4 are known as Task Oriented Behavior.
And follows are Social-emotional role.
5)Mediator
6)Team Barometer
7)Facilitator
8)Energy Booster
Get Details with each parameter…..
Summarizer-
Prods the team members to come to a consensus and decide on a
action plan.
Seeks verbal agreement from the team members.
Help the team to move forward from one decision to another.
Team
Inventory-
Record your team activities.
Key aspects of effective teamwork.
Level of effective skill
Behavior patterns that hider teamwork.
1) Inconsiderate
behavior.
2) Being overly
critical.
3) Competing
with the other team members.
4) Dominating
and Manipulating team member.
5) Talking
behind others back.
6) Seeking
sympathy.
7) Employing
team wasting tactics.
8) Withdrawing
from the team.
9) Doing nothing
constructive about the team’s problems.
10) Taking all
the credit for the team success.
The
Guide-
Prevent the team from deviating from the main theme of the
discussion or the work at hand and tries to achieve this without hurting the
sentiments of any member or creating a negative atmosphere in the team.
Information
Gatherer-
Ø Make sure
that the team decision are realistic.
Ø Point out
whether a statement made by a team members is a fact or just an opinion.
Ø Specifies
whether the team has all the information required to reach the right decision.
Ø Prevents
the team from taking any action that is beyond its anthority.
Initiator-
Begins the
team discussion on the right note.
Gets the
team to agree on an action plan before starting work on a task.
Mediator-
Ø Brings into
the open the conflicts existing within the team,to resolve them.
Ø Direct team
discussion towords fulfilling the individual needs of the team members.
The Team Barometer-
Notices and
brings to everyone’s attension change in the emotional tone,the energy level
and the general enthusiasm of the team.
The Faciliator-
Ø Help
communication within the team.
Ø Stresses
the importance of listening to and empathizing with team members to participate
more actively.
Ø Overshadowing
the less outspoken ones.
The
Energy Booster-
Ø Builds and
sustains the team’s energy by enthusiastically supporting members efforts,ideas
and achievement.
Ø Give verbal
as well as non-verbal encouragement to team members.
