Tips for Team Building (M1)

Tips for Team Building

Introduction:

Executives, managers and organization staff members collectively explore ways to improve business results, productivity and profitability. Many view team-based, horizontal, organization structures as the best design for involving all employees in creating business success.

No matter what you call your team-based improvement effort: continuous improvement, total quality, lean manufacturing or self-directed work teams, you are striving to improve results for customers. Few organizations, however, are totally pleased with the results their team improvement efforts produce. If your team improvement efforts are not living up to your expectations, this self-diagnosing checklist may tell you why. Successful team building, that creates effective, focused work teams, requires attention to each of the following.

12 Tips for Team Building:

•         Clear Expectations

•         Context

•         Commitment

•         Competence

•         Charter

•         Control

•         Collaboration

•         Communication

•         Creative Innovation

•         Consequences

•         Coordination

•         Cultural Change