KEY AREAS OF TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

KEY AREAS  OF TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

Key areas of team effectiveness focus to continually improve team members' effectiveness. Team effectiveness key areas are as outlined:

• Goals
• Roles,
• Procedures
• Relationships
• And Leadership
• Periodic Self-evaluation
• Effective use of Resources
• Control procedures
• Self Awareness
• Development of trust in a team

Goals

The team clearly defines Goals of the team, Vision, Mission, Values and plans to manage team activities.  Each member plays a significant role in achieving the team goals.

Roles

Each team facilitator defines the Clear Roles And Responsibilities, Organization Structure of the team, Job Description of members. Accountabilities of group members, Competencies among the Resources, require Tools And Equipment for a team members and necessary and technical Qualifications for effectively  running team work.

Belbin defines nine team roles are outlined:

Creative Team Roles: Plant and Resource Investigator
Leadership Roles: Shaper, Implementer and Coordinator
Miscellaneous Roles: Specialist, Monitor/Evaluator, Completer-Finisher and Team Worker
Plant: creative, imaginative, unorthodox, solves difficult problems
Resource Investigator: extrovert, enthusiastic, communicative, explores opportunities, develops contacts
Shaper: challenging, dynamic, thrives on pressure, has the drive and courage to overcome obstacles
Implementer: disciplined, reliable, conservative and efficient, turns an idea into practical action coordinator: mature, confident, a good chairperson, clarifies goals, promotes decision-making, delegates well
Specialist: single-minded, self-starting, dedicated, provides knowledge and skills in rare supply
Monitor/Evaluator: sober, strategic and discerning, sees all options, judges accurately
Completer/Finisher: Painstaking, conscientious, anxious, searches out errors and omissions
Teamworker: cooperative, mild, perceptive and diplomatic, listens, builds, and averts friction

Procedures

An organization  bound to define procedures for functional activities of the team and its nature of work involvement of on a team and its members. It is methods to perform team work  in an organizational project. Team notices procedures for Solving Problems in a team, and Making effective Decisions, Communicating, Managing Conflict, Completing Tasks, Planning, Meetings, Managing Change, Evaluating Performance

Relationships

Positive relationships develop team effectiveness and achievement of team goals. A team bound to maintain positive relationships, Mutual respect and trust among team members, Support, Inclusion, Involvement, Value diversity, Listening,  and make effective feedback and mutual responsibility at the time of  disagreement. These things are making a team effectiveness to achieve the mission.

Leadership

Team leader leads the team with full support and effective in achieving team results. A strong team leaders must possess the

Personal Credibility, Strategic Focus, Clear Expectations, Clear Communication, Engagement and Involvement, Develop People and Team, All members responsible and accountable, 

Manage Change Recognition and effective teams are always aware of the responsibilities to work at competitive environment.

REASONS FOR TEAM INEFFECTIVENESS

Absence of Trust

This outcome occurs when team members are reluctant to be vulnerable with one another and are unwilling to admit their mistakes, weaknesses, or need for help. Without a certain comfort level among team members, a foundation of trust is not possible.

Fear of Conflict

Teams that are lacking trust are incapable of engaging in unfiltered, assionate debate about key issues. It creates situations where team conflict can easily turn into veiled discussions and back channel comments. In a work setting where team members do not openly air their opinions, inferior decisions result.

Lack of Commitment

Without conflict, it is difficult for team members to commit to  decisions, fostering an environment where ambiguity prevails. Lack  of direction and commitment can make employees, particularly star  employees, disgruntled and disenfranchised.

Avoidance of Accountability

When teams do not commit to a clear plan of action, even the most focused and driven individuals are hesitant to call their peers on actions and behaviors that may seem counterproductive to the overall  good of the team.

Inattention to Results

Team members naturally tend to put their own needs (e.g., ego, career development, recognition, and so on) ahead of the collective goals of the team when individuals are not held accountable. If a team has lost sight of the need for achievement, the business ultimately suffers.

Lack Of Productivity, Wasted Effort And Inefficiency

Team when become inefficient at work place. It results that lack of productivity, wasted effort and inefficiency in a team work.

Misalignment To A Company’s Strategy And Priorities; And  A Poor Dynamic With Ineffective Communication Or Mistrust

Team must work as per plan when team is not setting priorities at work due to ineffective communication and mistrust of among the team members in a team.