OBJECTIVES

 Explain the meaning of team building

 Describe the process of team building
 Identify the different team building skills
 Discuss Self-Managing teams
 TEAM BUILDING
activities intended to encourage
teamwork.
• Team members must work
together to be effective.
• Cooperation is needed among all
the teams that make up the whole
organization.
• Encourages team members to
examine how they work together.
 Clues To Its Need

 Interpersonal  Disagreement over

conflicts among the teams purpose &
team members. tasks.
 Negative climate
 Low degree of
within the team
team morale or
cohesiveness  Stagnation within the
team with members
 Large influx of new resisting change &
members new ideas.
STAGES IN TEAM BUILDING
 Identification of a
problem.
 Collection of relevant
data
 Data feedback &
confrontation
 Problem solving
experience
 On the job application
Skills Useful in Team Building
 Consultation
 Interpersonal
 Research
 Presentational
 Process consultation
 Feedback
 Process Consultation

 Set of activities that help others focus on what is

currently happening around them.
 Help team members perceive, understand and
react constructively to current behavioral events.
 Create independence in team members so that
they can more effectively think & act for
themselves
 Process Consultation:
 Facilitating Behavior Desired Effects on TM
 Encouraging open  Examine intended versus
communication actual roles
 Observe team meeting  Identify problems
 Probing & questioning  Examine consequences of
 Confronting individual behavior
 Stimulating problem  React constructively to
solving current behavioral event
 Attend non verbal cues  Explore new alternatives
 Encouraging learning  Think & act independently
 Feedback
 Encourages members to understand how
they are seen by others within their team
and to take self-correcting action.
 It helps the group meet to develop specific
plans of action for solving their
misunderstandings.
 It serves as a springboard in improving
team’s activity.
Ethical Dilemmas within Teams
 Team member
appraisals
 Member assistance
 Team selection
 Team Perfection
 Team Rewards
 Self-Managing Teams

 Self-reliant or self-directed teams - natural

work groups that are given substantial
autonomy & in return are asked to control
their own behavior to produce good result.
 Multi-skilling - members flexibly float
from area to area and task to task,
depending on where they needed most.
 Advantages of Self-Managing
Team
 Improved Flexibility of
staff
 More efficient operations
through the reduced
number of job
classifications
 Lower absenteeism
 Higher levels of job
satisfaction & commitment
Disadvantages of Self-Managing
Team
 Extended time to
implement them
 High training
investment
 Early inefficiencies
due to job rotation
 Inability of some
employees to adapt to
a team structure.
Thank You