Team building aims to increase productivity while lowering costs. It eliminates formal communication memos and speeds up implementing changes through teamwork. Benefits include increased productivity, quality, morale, problem solving, creativity, and better decisions. Work becomes less stressful when responsibility and rewards are shared. Teams are small groups of people with complementary skills committed to a common purpose and goals who hold each other accountable. There are different stages of team development including forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. In the forming stage, members are dependent on leadership for direction and concerned about fitting in, while in the storming stage frustrations may arise about goals and tasks.

1. Why Team Building?
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2. The goal is to raise productivity while
keeping production costs as low as
possible. It takes a lot of time to send
cooperative memos of every change
in procedure. It takes even more time
to implement those changes. With
teamwork you eliminate a lot of the
formalities. Team Building

3. Why Team?
Benefits to Organization Increased
productivity Increased quality Better
morale Better problem solving
Increased creativity Better decisions
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4. Work is less stressful Responsibility is
shared Rewards and recognition
shared Members can influence each
other All experience a sense of
accomplishment

5. Definition
Teams – A small number of people
with complementary skills who are
committed to a common purpose,
performance goals and approach for
which they hold themselves mutually
accountable. Usually 7-25 members
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6. Stages & Leadership Styles:
Norming Storming Forming
Performing Adjourning

7. Forming
Feel moderately eager with high
positive expectations about what the
tem will accomplish Feel concerned
about how they will fit in and what
will be expected of them Feel anxious
about other team members Are
dependent on authority to provide
direction

8. Forming :Interpersonal Issues;
Inclusion & trust. Willingness to include others in
decision making Extent to which team members feel
they can trust the leader
Forming Task Accomplishment: Low to moderate
Focus on defining goals, tasks and strategies
Leader Action: Strategies Establish realistic goals Set
standard for tem interaction Clarify team tasks and
team member roles & relationship Make decisions and
provide directions Monitor and give feedback on team
performance Demonstrate and teach skills.

9. Storming:Interpersonal Issues;
Experience some discrepancy
between initial hopes and the reality.
Become dissatisfied with
dependence on authority Experience
frustrations about goals and tasks
and may react negatively toward
formal leader and other team
members May compete for power
and attention