Team Building - 10 Easy Steps

Organizations spend a lot of money, time and effort trying to improve team productivity. Symptoms of low synergy within groups are:

Incompatible Visions of the future.
Unclear understanding of the Mission.
Unproductive Meetings.
Team members having a dominant participation style.
Disagreements are discussed privately.
Decisions are made by a minority.
No feeling of transparency or trust.
Confusion about tasks.
No regular self-assessment.

To confront such challenges, organizations must develop a special mixture of teamwork and culture, emphasizing the following keys to create synergy:

Share a Vision: teams should develop their own detailed vision about how the future should look and what role they will play.
Demand participation: Synergy is based on the premise that failure to participate is unacceptable.
Share information: a frequent impediment to synergy is that not all team members know all the options available to the group. This comes from information not being properly generated and reported, or by organizational habits that limit information to a small group of people.
Clarify Concepts: once the information is available, it is necessary to agree on it’s meaning, to contextualize it and transform it into knowledge, understanding and cohesiveness of minds.
Focus Meetings: set basic rules for managing meetings:
- Be punctual.
- Use Agendas.
- Prepare subjects.
- Avoid digressions.
- Turn Off Cellular Phones.
- If using a Laptop PC, do not do unrelated work
- No interruptions by external people.
- Avoid private chats.
- Distribute a Report describing decisions and assigned tasks.
Benefit from Diversity: the most diverse team can have the highest potential for synergy. Differences, if properly handled, trigger outstanding achievements.
Design Agreement Methodologies: always draw attention to the collective purpose and goals that brought the team together in the first place. Use techniques to facilitate agreement among participants, resulting in a “win-win” outcome.
Deliver the decisions made by the team: ensure they are implemented. Instruments like SWOT analysis, action plans, Gantt flowcharts, etc. will help with monitoring and driving work activities.
Implement self-monitoring processes: both for the progress on the work schedules and the attaining of milestones along the way.
Ride the horse! Enjoy the journey as well as the destination. The group must celebrate victory, enjoy accomplishments and express gratitude for the contributions of all team members.

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