Building Effective Teams

Although firms are relying on team creativity to innovate change, some US workers do not like having to work in teams due to the individualistic nature of American culture. But today, we usually don’t have any choice, either as leaders or as followers, about whether or not we work in teams. The major reason is that in most cases, you can’t succeed without an effective team effort, and organizations are using teams to create competitive advantage.

Advances in information and telecommunications technologies are allowing new ways of structuring, processing, and distributing work and overcoming the barriers of distance and time with global virtual teams. The members of global virtual teams are physically located in different places but work together as a team.

Organizations need team members who can work well together. Group process, also called group dynamics, is about how members get along, not how they do their work. Relationships affect our behavioral interactions in groups, and group process affects team performance. Thus, firms are working to improve team dynamics through organizational development (OD).

Team building is probably the most widely used OD technique today, and its popularity will continue as more companies use work teams due to the complexity of the work environment. The goals of team-building programs vary considerably, depending on the group’s needs and the change agent’s skills. Team-building programs also vary in terms of agenda and length, depending on team needs.

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We can do anything if our TEAM is effective. So we should build our team. Strong. Thank u for the video sir.