When You’re In Charge: Tips for Leading Teams
- Topics:
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Tags:
- Management,
- Norming,
- Team,
- Team Management
- Source:
- Teambuilding
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Overview: Teams are serious business in today’s economy as companies realize the value of teaming in creating greater employee involvement, leveraging human resources, fostering innovation, and shoring up the bottom line. No matter the title – team leader, manager or facilitator- the goal is to help the team achieve results. The first step toward that end is to understand how to juggle those three roles. Understanding one’s own self is one matter, but understanding the team is equally, if not more, important. Years ago, companies saw teams as a panacea and implemented them without much forethought as to the process and whether teams were really appropriate. What people are seeing today is a much more selective approach to team work. One has to think systematically and selectively as he assembles the group. In the forming stage, group members first come together to lay the foundation for the team. When groups enter the storming stage, members begin to realize the amount of complicated work ahead and sometimes panic. Norming is the stage where people get used to working with one another. One will see cooperation over competition, more acceptance, and comfort in giving and receiving feedback. In the performing stage, team members are comfortable with each other and everyone is "reading from the same page".
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
