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Team Development |
In many organizations people talk about developing the team, working as a team etc, but few understand how to create the experience of team work or how to develop an effective team.
Belonging to a team, in the broadest sense, is a result of feeling part of something larger than yourself.
It has a lot to do with your understanding of the Vision Mission and Values of your organization.
In a team-oriented environment, you contribute to the overall success of the organization. You work with fellow members of the organization to produce these results.
Even though you have a specific job function and you belong to a specific department, you are unified with other organization members to accomplish the overall objectives.
The bigger picture drives your actions; your function exists to serve the bigger picture. In essence you are striving to improve results for customers.
It is important to differentiate this overall sense of teamwork from the task of developing an effective intact team that is formed to accomplish a specific goal.
People confuse the two team building objectives. This is why so many team building seminars, meetings, retreats and activities are deemed failures by their participants. Leaders failed to define the team they wanted to build.
Developing an overall sense of team work is different from building an effective, focused work team when you consider team building approaches.
In this program we concentrate in developing your team to serve the bigger picture of improving results for your customers.
Firstly we need to examine three basic requirements:
Clear Expectations: Management’s expectations of all team members are:
• Participation from all team members during coaching sessions
• 100% attendance to all coaching sessions
• Completion of homework