A Great Deal Of Building A Better Team

For many years, people in every workplace have talked about team building. A lot of talk has gone on about building the team, working as a team and those who like to refer to it as "my team". Sadly, few of these people understand the many elements that have to be present to create an effective team or to create an atmosphere that teamwork will be able to thrive in.

One of the thrills of belonging to a team is it makes you feel that you are part of something that is bigger than you are in the broadest sense. A great deal of it has to do with every team members' understanding of the missions, objectives and goals that they are all responsible for presenting to the company or organization that they work for. In a team environment, each team member helps contribute to the overall success and produce the necessary results for the establishment. Although team members may be broken off into departments, they are still working as a unit and they are working towards the same goal. Each member's actions are driven by the bigger picture. You need to distinguish between the overall sense of teamwork from the job of assembling and effective team that can work as a unit and perform the work that is necessary to get done for the employer or organization. There are many people who confuse the two team building objectives.

Due to this constant miscommunication, there are several team building seminars, meetings, retreats and activities that wind up as big failures by all those who participated in them. One of the main reasons is that leaders have failed to define the team that they wanted to build. Definition is the key to a successful team. The ability to develop an overall sense of teamwork is quite different than building a focused and effective work team when it comes to team building.

There has come into fruition in the past years a list referred to as "The key points of team building." This list may give you further understanding of what building and effective and successful team is really all about.

Clear Expectations - This means that executive leadership has been successful in communicating their expectation to the entire team and everybody knows exactly what they are responsible for and expected to do.

Context - The team members understand why they are participating on the team and they are able to define the importance of their team to the accomplishments of the corporate goals.

Commitment - The team members want to participate and they understand that their job is important to the overall outcome of their objective. They feel that their work and input is important and this will make them feel excited and challenged enough to do better work each time.

Competence - The team members know that they have the most suitable people involved in the project with the right skills, knowledge capabilities to produce the results that are expected of them.


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Casey Trillbar is the editor of SixSigmaTrainingGuide.com, which is a website aimed at supplying articles, information and resources to people considering undergoing Six Sigma Certification. http://www.sixsigmatrainingguide.com