Teamwork and team building are important for organizations to meet customer needs and accomplish goals. Effective teams have clear missions understood by members, team players, and accountability. Building successful teams requires assessing strengths and weaknesses, planning team activities based on needs, executing plans, and evaluating effectiveness through reassessment. Communication, structure, and handling conflicts are key to strong team dynamics. Recognizing and rewarding desirable team behaviors helps promote teamwork.

1. Teamwork and Team BuildingTeamwork and Team Building
Prepared & Presented byPrepared & Presented by
Mr. Sampengala VenkateshMr. Sampengala Venkatesh
2727thth
Oct’ 2016Oct’ 2016
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TeamworkTeamwork
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3. Any group of people organized to work
together or interdependently in order to
cooperatively meet the needs of their
customers by accomplishing a purpose or
goal.
Together
Everyone
Accomplishes
More
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5.  Why do companies use teams?
Two heads are better than one
The whole can be greater than the sum of its
parts
Team members build trust and want to help
each other
Promotes better communication
Multiplies the potential of individual members
Produces positive peer pressure
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6. Provides a framework that will increase
the ability of employees to participate in
planning, problem solving, and decision
making.
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7. Makeup
◦ Should be composed of people who are most
likely going to be able to satisfy the team’s
mission effectively.
◦ Commitment to the team and its purpose.
◦ Diversity of skills and personalities.
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8. What are some traits that can contribute
to the success of a team?
Honesty/integrity Initiative
Selflessness Patience
Dependability Resourcefulness
Enthusiasm Punctuality
Responsibility Tolerance/sensitivity
Cooperativeness Perseverance(difficulties)
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9. Individual player and TeamIndividual player and Team
playerplayer
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COMPETING Vs. COMPLETING
Scarcity mind-set : Abundance mind-set
Me first : Organization first
Destroys trust : Develops trust
Thinks win-lose : Thinks win-win
Single thinking : Shared thinking
(My good ideas) (Our great ideas)
Excluding others : Including others

10. Roles and Responsibilities
◦ Team Leader
◦ Team Recorder
◦ Team Quality Advisor
◦ Team Member
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11. Team Leader
◦ Official contact between the team and the
rest of the organization
◦ Official record keeper
◦ Serve as a team member
◦ Implement team recommendation
◦ Will be the “coach” for the rest of the team
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12.  Coaching
Team leaders should facilitate team
development and continuous improvement
○ Give teams a clearly defined charter
○ Make team development and team building
constant activities
○ Mentor team members
○ Promote mutual respect between themselves and
team members
○ Positively promote diversity within the team
○ Employee empowerment
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13. Team Recorder
◦ Takes minutes during team meetings
◦ Assists the team leader with other types of
correspondence that is generated by the team
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14. Team Quality Advisor
◦ Focuses on team processes and how decisions are
made
◦ Assists the team leader in breaking down tasks into
component parts and assigning those parts to other
team members
◦ Helps the team leader prepare for meetings
◦ Helps the team members learn to use the scientific
approach
◦ Helps team members convert their recommendations
into presentations that can be made to upper
management
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15. Team Charter
◦ Team Mission
◦ Ground Rules
◦ Team Goals
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16. Mission Statement
◦ Broad, encompasses all activities, progress
can be measured and SIMPLICITY
◦ Ex. The purpose of this team is to reduce the
time between when an order is taken and
when it is filled, while simultaneously
improving the quality of products shipped.
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17. Ground Rules
◦ Agreed upon by the whole team
◦ Describes agreed upon actions and
characteristics of team members
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18. Goals: reaching the mission
◦ Ad Hoc Teams
◦ Permanent Teams
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20. Type of Team required w.r.t ChallengeType of Team required w.r.t Challenge
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22. Four-Step Approach
◦ Assess
◦ Plan
◦ Execute
◦ Evaluate
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23. Look for strengths and weaknesses in
team members
For a team to be successful, the following
characteristics are needed:
◦ A clear direction that is understood by all
team members
◦ Team players
◦ Understood and accepted accountability
measures
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24. Planning
◦ Based on the results of a needs assessment
◦ Activities should be based on the strengths
and weaknesses of the needs assessment
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25. Execution
◦ Just-in-time
◦ Continuous improvement
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26. Evaluation
◦ Effectiveness can be measured based on how
well weaknesses identified in the needs
assessment were strengthened.
◦ Re-administer the needs assessment
◦ Could result in additional team building
activities
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27. Communication
Structure
Personal
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28. Set a positive example of teamwork and
resolving conflicts at a company level
Identify and address the conflict
Turn into a positive experience
◦ Increase employees communication and
interpersonal skills
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29. Resolution Strategies:
◦ Acknowledge that the conflict exists.
◦ Gain common ground.
◦ Seek to understand all angles.
◦ Attack the issue not each other.
◦ Develop an action plan.
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31. Basic Requirements
◦ The behaviors that are expected must be
communicated to all those affected so they
know exactly what is meant by rewardable
performance.
◦ Both team leaders and team members must
be explicit about what behaviors are
expected, why they are necessary, and how
they will be recognized and rewarded.
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33. Nonmonetary Rewards
◦ Different people respond to different
incentives.
◦ Organization should survey employees before
implementing nonmonetary incentives.
◦ Set up a system where the employee can
select the award that appeals to them.
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34. Presenting Certification of thePresenting Certification of the
Excellence AwardExcellence Award
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35. Coming together is a
Beginning…
Keeping together is a
progress……
WorKing together is a
suCCess……
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