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[T103]Team Building Communication Games

by Martin Haworth, Mar

In my business life I only had the latter. An existing group of employees, in each business who I had to work with, from each new day one. Never a new set that I could grow for myself.

There are different challenges in each case.

With an existing team you have to challenge and change ideas and behaviours set in their ways, unchallenged, sometimes for years. You run the risk that they have had poor experiences of what good quality performance is - or, as they say, what 'good looks like'. This may not be good at all - not necessarily their fault though as no-one showed them differently!

In every business management I had, the outgoing manager was either leaving the business, retiring or being demoted. In one store I managed I was the first manager to be promoted out of there since the war!

That meant that whilst I had the numbers in place with some experience, it was quite a challenge to ensure that they came on board quickly, with what my own ideas of good performance and business delivery were.

Like a new football manager, I had to gradually change the personnel until they fit the team I wanted, with the exception of those who were prepared to change and develop. However, there were rare opportunities to transfer anyone out and definitely not for a fee. Occasionally someone might seriously transgress (like the supervisor who, I found out, regularly sent her staff out to the supermarket to do her weekly food shop for her - in business time - I demoted her to the ranks and she never showed up again!).

In developing a new team from scratch, the challenges are still significant. Their skills and understanding of organisational processes can be lacking, especially if new recruits to the organisation. Yet these individuals aren't tarnished with poor behaviours, inherited from past underperforming models in the management hierarchy.

The easiest? I don't know, as I never had a brand new team. Yet, in both cases, it is vital to set in stone standards that are clearly stated and as rigid as necessary to deliver the quality outputs the business needs. In both cases it is vital that the incoming manager is able to be the best example possible.

Then sticking firmly to the path, with consistency, fairness as well as building trusting relationships is the only way to success. There will be ups and downs, with failures and omissions, but this will guide you through successfully in the end.

With such a template, both types of team will work well and deliver outstanding results.

Team building is a term which is common to almost any organization, be it commercial or otherwise. Right from the sports arena to the office complex, team building is considered to be one of the most crucial and important steps in achieving success. However, unless the organization in question is clear about what type of a team is required and how to keep it working in harmony, it is unlikely to make any long-term progress.

Team building has been interpreted in several ways, but in essence it is said to be a combination of the ‘selection', ‘development' and ‘motivation' of the group of people chosen to get the job at hand done in a successful manner. It is said to be one of the most proven methods to develop and strengthen the team's assets while negating the liabilities.

It is no wonder then that the need for team building is essential to almost all aspects of life. While an office needs to motivate and select its employees in a manner that is most conducive to the task at hand, the home front also needs to adopt team building so as to keep the family together and happy.

There are some who consider team building as a strategy that is adopted only in the initial stages of a venture but this is far from true. Team building is a constant process where the members are continuously integrated and given incentives to perform in harmony towards a common goal.

If it was not for team building, most jobs in the world would not get done. Team building allows one to tap on the potential of a group as opposed to being restricted to the abilities of an individual.

Having established the importance of team building and comprehending its meaning, the next action is to understand the various steps involved in the process. It is necessary that while undertaking the team building process, one clarifies the goals of the team and is able to spread the sense of ownership to each member of the team.

Each team member and the team as a whole are likely to have certain strong points as well as some weaknesses. The trick to developing a strong team is enhancing these strong points and eliminating the weak ones, or at least negating their effect.

Continuously working with the feedback from the team members on both the strong and lacking aspects of the group is a great way to ensure that the team moves forward at all given times. Time and circumstances change constantly, and ignoring these changes while continuing to work with outdated data can cause damage to the team's goals.

Ignoring team building is known to cause damage to any organization; poor and weak teams will have almost the same effect. So if the goal is to achieve success, then it is imperative that continuous attention be paid to the team building process of the organization.

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