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Turning Individual Into Team Leader

This document discusses how to develop individual team members into effective team players. It states that training courses can help turn individuals into team players by teaching skills like problem solving, communication, and conflict management. It also notes that providing adequate rewards can motivate team members to work effectively as a team. The document highlights several objectives and benefits of team building such as boosting morale, increasing employee retention, and improving engagement. It outlines different approaches to team building like formal retreats and continuous improvement efforts.

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Turning Individual Into Team Leader

This document discusses how to develop individual team members into effective team players. It states that training courses can help turn individuals into team players by teaching skills like problem solving, communication, and conflict management. It also notes that providing adequate rewards can motivate team members to work effectively as a team. The document highlights several objectives and benefits of team building such as boosting morale, increasing employee retention, and improving engagement. It outlines different approaches to team building like formal retreats and continuous improvement efforts.

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TURNING INDIVIDUAL

INTO TEAM LEADER


■ Team players are indispensable human
assets of many organizations, and these
organizations would want to make sure that
they are available when their services are
needed.
SELECTION
 Some were born natural team players, while other could become
team players if they are properly trained.
TRAINING
 Is a way of turning individuals into team players.
 Made to attend training courses in problem solving, communication,
negotiation, conflict management and coaching.
REWARDS
 Powerful motivators
 True if it is directed toward effective teamwork
 With adequate rewards, team members would be motivated to be
effective team players
WHAT IS TEAM
BUILDING?
 Team building deals with two main aspects-
recruiting people from the same or
different teams
 engaging them in activities to achieve
results.
OBJECTIVES OF TEAM BUILDING
Boost Morale
 Team building activities help employees feel a sense of shared
purpose which inspires them to achieve the task at hand and do it
perfectly.
Increase Employee Retention
 most popular reason cited by professionals to conduct these
activities, which are an outlet for effective team building
Improve Employee Engagement
 when your employees can have a team with whom they can
exchange ideas and achieve their targets, they start getting
invested in the organization and its people.
Approaches to team building
■ Formal Retreat Approach
 Team building occurs during an offsite retreat
■ Continuous Improvement Approach
 The manager, team leader, or members take
responsibility for ongoing team building
■ Outdoor Experience Approach
 Members engage in physically challenging situations
that requires teamwork
SUCCESSFUL
PERFORMANCE OF
A TEAM
1. Strategy

2. Clear Roles and Responsibilities

3. Open Communication

4. Rapid Response

5. Effective Leadership
Strategy

 Shared purpose
 Clearly articulated values at ground rules
 Understanding of risks and opportunities facing
the team
 Clear categorization of the overall responsibilities
of the team
Clear Roles and Responsibilities

 Clear definition of roles and responsibilities


 Responsibility shared by all members
 Specific objectives to measure individual results
Open Communication

 Respect for individual differences


 Open Communication environment among team
members
Rapid Response

Rapid response to the team’s problems


Effective management to change in the
internal and external environment
Effective Leadership

 Team leader who is able to help members achieve


the objective and build the team
 Team leader who can draw out and free up the skills
of all team members, develop individuals
WHAT IS
TEAMWORK?
Is the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a
common goal or to complete a task in the most
effective and efficient way
Basic requirements for effective teamwork are
an adequate team size.
A team must include at least 2 or more members
For teams to succeed, they need
teamwork and the readiness to
accept each other.
■ For members to work as a team, they need to function through
teamwork’s necessary vital organs. These important aspects
are-
 Defined roles and responsibilities
 Strong internal communication
 Mutual respect
 Accepting people with diverse opinions
 Holding discussions before arriving at a consensus
 Involving everyone in decision-making processes
 Giving everyone the freedom and autonomy to fulfill their functions
 Strong leadership skills
 Having the required skills and ability to come up with innovative ideas
 Being accountable and responsible for their actions
OBJECTIVES OF TEAMWORK
Problem Solving

■ Diverse opinions and ideas, if harnessed properly, can solve even the most
complex set of problems.
■ There are several teamwork strategies you can utilize to practice problem solving
with the members of your team.
■ Teamwork aims to achieve thorough problem solving because it believes that
diverse ideas when combined together can lead to effective problem solving.
■ Working in a team exposes people to new ideas, perspectives and learn new
problem-solving methods.
■ This also encourages people to share their opinions on matters, improve
communication and can actually regulate
Encourage Cooperation
■ Working in a team requires people to work towards a common
goal.
■ This can only be achieved when they give each other a chance
to portray their individual expertise.
■ Teamwork’s objective is to help employees learn skills like
patience, trusting each other, listening and trying to find
common ground.
■ These skills will only help team members to open up to
each other and participate in the completion of their
function.
Improve Team Productivity
■ When you make a group of skilled people strive towards achieving the
same thing, you can get more done in less time.
■ There can be many tasks which are too complex or time-consuming to be
undertaken by a single employee.
■ But when you assign these tasks to a group, they can divide it among
themselves and strategies the best possible way to complete it.
■ This saves time, enhances individual performance and increases the team’s
overall productivity.
WHAT CAN BE
DONE TO
IMPROVE TEAM
PROCESSES?
Increased emphasis on teams and
teamwork
 Presents challenges to people accustomed to more
traditional ways of working

 Creates complications due to multiple and shifting


memberships

 Requires team leaders and members to deal positively


with group dynamics issues
New member problems
New members are concerned about issues of:
 Participation
 Goals
 Control
 Relationships
Behavior profiles for coping
■ Behavior profiles of coping with individual entry
problems:
 tough battler
 friendly helper
 objective thinker
Task and maintenance leadership

■ High performance teams require distributed


Leadership.
■ The team leader and team members share in the
responsibility of meeting task needs and maintenance
needs
Task Activities
■ The various things members do that contribute directly to the performance
of importance group tasks

■ Task activities include


 Initiating discussion
 Sharing information
 Asking information of others
 Clarifying what has been said
 Summarizing the status of a deliberation
Maintenance Activities
■ Support the group’s social and interpersonal relationships

■ Maintenance Activities include


 Encouraging the participation of others
 Trying to harmonize differences of opinion
 Praising the contribution of others
 Agreeing to go along with a popular course of action
END
THANK YOU
MAISAH P. LAO
GC 209

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