Importance Of Team Building 6.19.07

Importance of Team Building Lynnette Zepeda, Wendy McKnight, Rodel Santos, Randy Markham, Darius Shufford & Joseph Falcon University of Phoenix Introduction to Oral Communications COMM / 110 Sharie Lee Green, M.A. June 19, 2007

Team Work “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” - Henry Ford

Thesis Team work is applicable to all facets of life for professional or educational gain when all members utilize their abilities to achieve an objective and a common goal.

Purpose To inform, identify and help develop strategies to utilize the unique strengths and abilities of a group and to use as a vehicle through which problems can be acknowledged and resolved to meet common goals and objectives.

Building and Development  A sense of purpose. Members have issues and topics that are of mutual     

interests. Team members work together to achieve a common goal. Benefits. Team members provide a range of benefits for one another and individuals, go over and above getting a task done. Increased creativity. Individuals ideas spark off one another and the process of working in a team seem to generate more and more possibilities. Coordination. Team members all play a part in getting the whole job done instead of seeing their own little process as being the start and finish of it all. Personal support. Good teams operate rather like a an extended family whose members trust, like, help and care about each other. Ownership. The act of passing over to people the responsibility for their own decisions and their own actions. (Morris 1995)

How does Team building and development work?  Clarify the team goals  Identify what is helping and hindering you from

achieving them  Review team values, for they shape the decisions you make  decide you can best work together to optimize individual and group talent www.emailcoach.co.uk/team_development.htm

Communication  What is communication?  Interpersonal communication  Intra team communication

Communication Why? Listening, oral communication, interpersonal and teamwork rank as top skills that today’s employers seek in their hires. When you learn to communicate effectively with others, more opportunities become available.

Outcome: How you communicate Impacts how others communicate within your team. How your team members communicate impacts the thinking environment of the team and its productivity and Efficiency.

foundationcoalition.org / UOP Learning team handbook2007

Planning  Mission Statement  S.W.O.T. (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threat)  Set goals and objectives  Develop strategies  Monitor the plan Planning Process. Retrieved from telecollege.dccd.edu/mgmt1374book_contents

What is leadership? Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: A competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take initiative to get to where you want to be. Ref.CoachThee.com “We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve.” Albert Einstein

Why is leadership important? Leadership is important in today’s organizations because no matter how much technical skill one has, that talent will always be managed by those who set the goals, inspire action, and creatively change as needed. Leadership coach: John Agno – certified executive & business coach (CoachThee.com) believes that we must develop our leadership abilities in order to achieve the success we seek.  Three I’s - Intelligence, Initiative and Inspiration

Managing Team Conflicts  Trust between members  Lack of communication  Causes of team conflict  Resolution Ref.Shana Shipley c. 2003

Conclusion Effective Team Building

Building and Developing

Communication

Planning

Leadership

Managing team Conflicts

References Team building 2007,team buildingportal.com Building blocks for teams2007,Pennstateedu.com Management Modern. (1998). Planning Process. Retrieved from telecollege.dccd.edu/mgmt1374book_contents Uky.edu/studentsactivities/leadership. UOPapollolibrary.com./LTT/toolkit2 Bizjournels.com/denver/stories, John Agno:coachthee.com, Foundation coalition.org, UOP Learning team handbook 2007