Team work group - OD interventions - Organizational Change and Development - Manu Melwin Joy
Team Building Interventions - Od
Transcript of Team Building Interventions - Od
TEAM BUILDING INTERVENTIONS
Presented by: Shraddha Thakker (07bs4614)
Urmi J. Shukla (07bs4643)
What is team? Why people join teams? Benefits of team building Characteristics of effective team Strategies for team building Types of teams How team manage themselves? Case Activities for Team Building
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
Collection of people relying on group collaboration achieve success and goal achievement.
Importance is on joint, concerted and coordinated effort which generate positive energy to achieve goals.
WHAT IS TEAM?
Security •Feel stronger•Reduced insecurity of remaining alone
Status •Recognition to members
Self- esteem •Feeling of self worth
Affiliation •Fulfill social needs through interaction
Power •Things cannot be achieved individually can be achieved through group actions
Goal achievement •Pooling of talents, knowledge or power enables to get job completed
WHY PEOPLE JOIN TEAMS?
Team is a group of a persons- supervisor and members interacting with each other.
• Listening • Participating• Collaborating• Supporting• Coordinating• Motivating
Effectiveness of team is not merely measured in completing a task or reaching a decision, a team must be aware of the process.
WHAT IS TEAM?
Management, complexity of task and situation requires to be creatively and collectively managed.
Capable of rapid response to situations.
Encourages high motivation and consequent achievement.
Level of commitment is high.
Collaborative strength of team and teams are task oriented.
All the members benefits from the team – individuals and organization.
Achieve higher level of productivity and performance.
Expanded job skills as they do each others job this increases organizational flexibility to deploy members in long run.
BENEFITS OF TEAM BUILDING
Clear purpose to all
• Members know their goals mission, vision
Participation
• All members are listened as there is effective interaction
Consensus decision – making
• Situation is diagnosed by joint decision and problems are solved through cooperation and supportive relationship
Leadership
• Anyone is free to volunteer and leader’s role is supportive and informal
Trust and respect for one another
CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEAMS
Close sense of identification
• High degree of group loyalty, group solidarity or cohesiveness.
Positive synergy
• Level of performance is greater due to coordinated effort
Self – assessment
• Periodic examination how well the team is functioning?
High performance teams
• All the above + commitment, ambition, mutual accountability members are interchangeable with complementary skills
CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEAMS
Diagnosis
Task accomplishments
Team relations
hips
Team and
organization
processes
STRATEGIES FOR TEAM BUILDING
STRATEGIES FOR TEAM BUILDING
Work Team
Building Activities
A. Diagnostic Meetings:• unfreeze the members to be ready• Joint data collection• Feedback data and discuss
problem areas of the group
B. Team building focused on:• Task accomplishment including
problem solving, decision making, role clarification, goal – setting
• Building and maintaining effective inter – personal relationships
• Understanding and managing group process and culture identify barriers and seek collaboration
• Role negotiation techniques.
Work team
•Comprises of section/work group i.e. supervisor and his employees
Problem – solving teams•Common in 1980’s•Quality circles, productive teams, task force etc.•Not given authority to unilaterally implement any of their actions.•Members are from the same section or department
TYPES OF TEAMS
Cross functional teams• Become vogue in 1990’s• Composed of members from different departments to
coordinate complex projects and are from same hierarchical level
• Effective way to exchange information, develop ideas and solve problems and solve complex projects
• Gradually builds trust and team work as people are from different back grounds, with different experience and perspective.Self – managed teams• Cross functional so skills are complementary
• Collective control over work and are empowered• Sharply focused objective• Near complete operational and decision making autonomy-
set their rules to operate• Every member has separate role for his department• Training and grooming of members as business managers • Self evaluation
Successful teams have a combination of qualities summed up in acronym “team work”
T :- trust E:- enthusiasm A:- ambition to succeed M:- mutual interest W:- workability of goals O:- openness to share ideas R:- resilience K:- key result areas
TEAM WORK
HOW TEAM MANAGE THEMSELVES?
Form the team
Set targets
Plan the activity
Analyze problems
Find solutions
Put into action
Validate the result
Register achievement
6-8 cross functional members
Investigate current conditions
Assign every member a role
Identify the causes
Consult the leader if necessary
Ensure unity of purpose
Is the solution permanent
Acknowledge result as target
BUILDING AN EXECUTIVE TEAM AT CAESARS
TAHOE
TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES
TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES
Every team’s collective purpose is to achieve tasks they cannot achieve alone.
Team Building activities help them realize this.
TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY 1
FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE OUTCOMES OF TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES
Length of time allocated to the activity
Team’s willingness to understand its
process
Length of time the team has been working
together
Team’s permanence
CLASSIFICATION OF TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES
DIAGNOSTIC DEVELOPMENTAL
ONE OR MORE INDIVIDUALS
Instruments, interviews and feedback to understand style and motivations of group members
•Coaching•360 Degree Feedback•Third Party Interventions
GROUP OPERATIONS AND BEHAVIOUR
Surveys, interviews and team meetings to understand the group’s processes and procedures
Role ClarificationMission & Goal SettingDecision Making processNormative Change
RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE ORGANISATION
Surveys and interviews to understand how the group related to its organization context
Strategic PlanningStakeholder analysis
ORIENTATION OF ACTIVITY
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ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO ONE OR MORE INDIVIDUALS
DIGNOSTIC Helps members to better understand their motivations,
style or emotions in the group context Results in the members gaining a better understanding
of the way these affect problem solving and other group process
DEVELOPMENTAL Include coaching, 360 Degree Feedback, Assistance
with conflict, etc Attempt to alter group’s ongoing processes by
focusing on the behaviors and attitudes of individual members
ACTIVITIES ORIENTED TO GROUP’S OPERATION AND BEHAVIOR DIAGNOSTIC
Data gathered includes information on leadership styles and behavior Goals, objectives and decision making process Organizational culture, communication pattern,
interpersonal relationships and process Barriers to effective group functioning Task and related technical problems
They establish a framework within which further work can be done through developmental activities
ACTIVITIES ORIENTED TO GROUP’S OPERATION AND BEHAVIOR DEVELPOMENTAL
An inward look by the team at its own performance, behavior and culture for the purpose of dropping out dysfunctional behaviors and strengthening functional ones
They include role clarification, improving goal clarity and member commitment, modifying the decision making and problem solving process, changing norms, increasing risk taking and trust and improving communication
ACTIVITIES AFFECTING GROUP’S RELATIONSHIP WITH REST OF THE ORGANIZATION
DIAGNOSTICFocus on understanding the group’s
organizational role, how it’s goals support the larger organization and how the group interacts with other groups
DEVELOPMENTALActions that improve all of the above
TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY 2
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