Team Building and Group Dynamics Management

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION OF THE TEAM

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Henry Ford

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INTRODUCTION

The team typically consists of a group of people who are working together with a common goal. Team building is the process of structure, design and buildup of a team for execution of common goals.

A team has identified with its creativity, performance, involvement, ideas generation, progressive development of core competences, uses of innovative tools for the development of a team. The team focuses on creativity, innovative and work spirit of a team member and a team leader. Any kind of organization principally consists of a group of employees, whose main goals are execution of defined short term goals and long term goals. Short term goals are able to perform with the purview of Mission of an organization and long term goals are future oriented and come into the purview of Vision. An organization has clearly defined roles, responsibilities, duties and function of each employee who are performing assigned tasks in an organization. An organization hierarchy divides into the three categories from the point of view of the Management: top level, middle level and low level management. Each level has constituted a team for the execution of planned and unplanned work. Top level typically consists the board of directors and managing director and directors. They are framing the policy for making decisions and administration of an organization for smooth running of business operation.

A glowing team is becoming the asset of an enterprise.  The team recognizes the main issues, challenges, core competence, innovation, creativity in the development and discovery of ideas and new ideas through brainstorming; it includes how to manage scarce resources, committed to achieve common tasks, proposes to establish contact with customers, clients, maintain to provide superior quality services and products, and enhanced management skills such as technical, conceptual and human resources management. Team members are taken care of  the safeguard interests of the stakeholders of the concerned projects.

Management often  focus on team formation, giving training to members  and development  of core knowledge as well as  committed to perform duties, responsibilities as per clients or customer requirements and willing to learn, share complex things, ideas which are associated with the project and able to find gaps which are existed in the projects and able to look for new opportunities such as products, services, customer, clients, core competency in new technology, development and effective utilization of social network platform.  These things have helped the team to improve performance and willing to complete a project within a specific duration.

Team building signifies the emergent positive relationships, the ability to learn new technology, interaction, cooperation, generous to working together among the team members in a team. A team offers services to their clients in the form of technical, applications, how to develop business, clients, getting of new customers, finding to a new core system, market intelligence used to make customized research solutions on-site and off-site mode within a specific period.

Team According to The Wisdom of Teams Published by Harvard Business School Press in 1993

A team is 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.

Team According to MIT Information Services and Technology

"People are working together in a committed way to achieve a common goal or mission. The work is interdependent and team members share responsibility and hold themselves accountable for attaining the results’’.

Team According Lewis-McClear & Taylor

A group is one in which members work together intensively to achieve a common group goal.

IMPORTANCE OF TEAM