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A team is a team, is a team, is a team, or is it?
BUILDING A TEAM FROM A WORK GROUP.
How to turn a group of people working together into a fully functioning and effective team.
Well to start with you are all familiar with the cliché, 'There is no letter 'I' in the word team'.
This cliché is well crafted because in life as in business it is extremely difficult if not impossible to achieve anything other than minor success or passing happiness in life or business without partnering with at least one being and therefore being part of a team.
What exactly is a team? This is a question often asked and there are many interesting and sometimes humorous suggestions as to what constitutes a team.
The most common definition is something like, 'A number of people with complimentary skill and knowledge base and behavioural styles harmoniously blended together to achieve a mutually agreed and clearly defined objective'
That definition alone gives huge clues as to the complexity of building a team which will function effectively and achieve the end objective.
'A number of people', how many does it take to make a team? Well it's obvious that you need at least two.
What is the effective upper member limit for a team? Generally in business it would seem to be around ten. Most business 'manager, team leaders' would tend to struggle have more than ten people reporting directly to them; however there are always exceptions.
A company will be made up of a number of teams which will be determined by the overall size of the company, the business they are in and their preferred method of taking their product or service to the market place..
'Complimentary skill and knowledge base', the skill and knowledge base required will of course be to a large extent determined by the objective to be achieved. The availability of suitable team members with the required skill and knowledge base will naturally also be a
However the skill and knowledge base requirement is often underestimated with alarming results as the chosen team members struggle on sometimes even unaware of the deficiency until a critical' must have by' timeline approaches. The team leader not knowing quite what to do often just hopes for the best.
If the skill and knowledge base requirement is overestimated. The Apollo system referred to by Meredith Belbin may be observed here. This is particularly so when a team is stuffed full of experts with specialised knowledge. This may lead to deadlines being missed as team members 'expert egos' debate options and strategy rather than focusing on meeting a pre determined 'done by' date.
'Behavioural styles harmoniously blended together'. Most teams are in truth usually selected purely on their perceived skill and knowledge base. The fact that certain behavioural styles may find it difficult to work together is often totally overlooked. What is often overlooked is that within a team of say 8 people there are no fewer that 28 1:1 unique relationships in existence. Once one takes account of this fact then it is no great surprise that from time to time that teams do run into interpersonal relationship difficulties. These then lead to the birth of issues which negatively affect total team performance.
Extremely useful tools for assisting in this regard have been developed over the years and one such tool is DiscusTeam from Axiom Software, www.discusteam.com. The system DiscusTeam highlights likely conflict between team member behavioural styles. This then facilitates the pre handling of such issues by the team leader or and team creator prior to team launch. It is a fact though, for the reasons mentioned earlier, that no matter how careful one may be in putting a team together the team dynamic does change with the passage of time.
Many of these changes will of course be positive and for the good of the team and enhance its performance.
It is also true that some of the changes may lead to the team performance slippage. This can be a very difficult and stressful time for all concerned.
There is an interesting software package being developed which is designed to help the leaders of teams in difficulty. This online system identifies over 400 issues which may cause a teams performance to drift and falter.
Using the outputs of behavioural profiling tools such as Belbin, Myers Briggs and DISC this online system promises to be of huge advantage to team leaders searching for a pathway back to positive team performance.
If this team inertia busting package sounds of interest why not sign up as an early bird Beta Tester? You may find that teamfacilitate answers some of your most pressing team and corporate interpersonal relationship problems. To register your companies' interest please complete our proforma application and non disclosure agreement www.teamfacilitate.com
Your interest will then be prioritised and you will be amongst the first companies invited to test drive the system.
You may also be interested to be considered as an early bird 'Beta Tester' company, this is limited to the first 25 companies to apply.
We will show our appreciation to those companies selected for the Beta Testing stage of development by giving an extended period of 6 months free unlimited usage when TeamFacilitate is officially launched.
TeamFacilitate is an online management tool designed to help teams quickly and effectively overcome team issues which are 'cut to the chase' team imperatives.
TeamFacilitate is a 21st century solution to problems and difficulties experienced by 21st century teams and their leaders.
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About the Author
Malcolm Milligan involved in Sales, Marketing and Human Resource issues for over 40 years.
Personally helped many hundreds develop their careers in sales and sales management.
A DISC behavioural profiling text writer and author of numerous articles on DISC profiling techniques.
Author of 'How to Master Your Destiny' a home study personal development course available from http//www.e-trainme.com
Recruitment and selection specialising in the select
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