This document discusses teams and team building. It defines a team as a small group of people with complementary skills who work together towards a common goal for which they are collectively accountable. There are different types of teams such as those that recommend solutions, run things, or make/do things. Team building aims to improve teamwork and effectiveness through planned activities like retreats or continuous improvement efforts. Building strong teams requires both task activities like sharing information, as well as maintenance activities like praising others' contributions. Problems can arise from an overemphasis on teams or from new members adjusting, so teams must avoid disruptive behaviors and share leadership responsibilities.

1. TEAMS
&
TEAM BUILDING
By Asim Sagheer
asimsagheer@gmail.com

2. Contents
What is team work?
Team work advantages & disadvantages.
What is team building?
Problems faced by team process.
What can be done to improve team process?
Types of teams.

3. 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.
• Teamwork is the act of working effectively
with other members of the team to achieve a
common goal.

4. What is teamwork?
Types of teams.
 Teams that recommend things.
Established to study specific problems and recommend
solutions to them.
 Teams that run things.
Have formal responsibility for leading other groups.
 Teams that make or do things.
Functional groups that perform ongoing tasks.

5. What is teamwork?
Nature and characteristics of teamwork.
Team members actively work together in such
a way that all of their respective skills are
utilized to achieve a common purpose.
Have strong core values.
Have the right mix of skills.
Possess creativity.

6. Teamwork advantages &
disadvantages
Advantages Disadvantages
Generates multiple ideas for solving
problems, making it easier to resolve
issues.
Slows down the problem-solving process
because of discussion and disagreements.
This is particularly true when teams grow
larger. As a result, deadlines may be
compromised.
Provides wide pool of talents, letting
members work together to complete
tasks.
Potentially challenging for employees who
prefer working alone or are not
comfortable working with people with
widely divergent skills and backgrounds
Strengthens bonds between employees
and improves their job satisfaction.
Allows some team members to do less
work than others and not participate as
much.

7. What is team building?
Team members and leaders must work hard
to 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.

8. What is team building?
Approaches to team building.
Formal retreat approach
-Team building occurs during an offsite retreat.
Continuous improvement approach.
-The manager, team leader, or team member take
responsibility for ongoing team building.
Outdoor experience approach.
-Members engage in physical challenging
situations that require teamwork.

9. How team building works?
Five step process.
-Problem or opportunity in team
effectiveness.
-Data gathering and analysis.
-Planning for team improvements.
-Actions to improve team functioning.
-Evaluation of results.

10. Problems faced by team process
Increased emphasis on teams and team work:
Present challenges to people accustomed to
more traditional ways of working.
Creates complications due to multiple and
shifting memberships.

11. New member problems.
-New members are concerned about the issues
of:
• Participation.
• Goals.
• Control.
• Relationships.

12. Task and maintenance leadership.
• Distributed leadership is required.
• The team leader and the members share in
the responsibility of meeting task needs and
maintenance needs.

13. What can be done to improve team
process?
Task activities which include-
Initializing discussion.
Sharing information.
Asking information of others.
Clarifying what has been said.
Summarizing the status of a deliberation.

14. Maintenance activities include-
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.

15. Group members should avoid the following
disruptive behaviors:
Being overly aggressive toward other members.
Withdrawing and refusing to cooperate with
others.
Horsing around when there is work to be done.
Talking too much about irrelevent matters.
Trying to compete for attention and recognition.

16. Types of teams
Problem solving teams.
Cross-functional teams.
Virtual teams.
Self managed teams.

17. Bibliography
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/hip/
us/hip_us_pearsonhighered/samplechapter/0
132850249.pdf
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/planning/
pdf/teamwrk.pdf

18. THANK YOU.
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