Effective Teamwork Strategies and Skills

This assignment explores the concept of effective teamwork, delving into essential skills and qualities managers need to foster successful teams. It examines strategies for developing team cohesion through clear communication, defined roles, and diverse perspectives. Additionally, it discusses the importance of learning plans in enhancing individual and team performance, highlighting monitoring processes that ensure continuous improvement and goal achievement.

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a. What skills and qualities do you consider that a manager needs to possess to develop a
team effectively?
A manager must be able to communicate properly about his needs, opinions and
expectations with his team members. He must be able to deliver correct messages to them and
make sure that his team members understand him. Secondly, he must be able to plan,
organize, and with the same, follow his own plan that includes understanding the processes
and rules of the company and predicting what will happen next. He must promote the sense
of competition with the other teams among his team members. He must listen to his team
member’s problems, solve them and show his commitments to his team goals. A good
manager must be adaptable and flexible (Quinn et al. 2014).
b. How have you developed team cohesion in your workplace?
Team cohesion could be developed by establishing a mission and the determining the
ways it could be accomplished. With the same, practicing team work and utilizing individual
strengths also helps in developing team cohesion in the organization. Most of the successful
team requires diversity within it since diversity in a team could access to various people with
different skills, knowledge and experiences, which could be utilized to build a strong team.
Furthermore, effective communication, celebrating success as well as asking and giving
feedbacks are also very essential to develop team cohesion.
c. What communications strategies have you used to ensure effective teamwork?
An effective communication starts with mastering the basic communication skills
such as speaking, listening, asking questions and giving feedbacks. Regular meeting of staff
members; clear and concise conversation with the team leaders that provides the clarity of
employee roles and responsibilities; using modern technologies to save the employees’ time

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and minimizing productivity loss and using online communication tools like drop box, Skype
etc are some of the communication strategies that could develop effective teamwork.
d. What do you think are the most important factors in developing effective teamwork and
why?
The most important factors in developing teamwork are goals, commitment,
communication and rewards (Salas et al. 2015). This is because:
 When goals are set, each member can start performing his or her assigned tasks
 Commitment is the key to team building and success (Goetsch and David 2014)
 The key of a successful team effort is communication
 Reward develops the desire and encourage the team members to participate again in
the next project (Norris et al. 2016)
e. Discuss a learning plan you have been involved in developing for yourself or a member of
your team. How were the learning and development requirements of the individual
identified?
The learning plan that was involved include the list steps that are to be taken, the
indication of successful completion, the starting date of the process and the target completing
date. The learning and development requirements of the individual were identified by
identifying the learning goal or the work objective, by identifying the learning experience that
is needed in order to develop that ability and to identify the support that is required in order to
develop as well as to apply that ability.
f. How have your ensured learning activities met the identified needs?
Whether the learning activities met, the identified needs could be ensured when it
could be seen that there are indications of successful completion, which could include

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improvement in work, improvement in communication, knowing the basic knowledge that
are required and understanding the mission and goals.
g. Explain the monitoring process your organization use
The monitoring process that the organization use includes capturing all the team
member feedback channels, asking the members what they think, listening to them by
monitoring interactions, using quality monitoring that could help the team members improve
their skills, measuring the results and keeping a record of continuous feedback as well as
evaluation to measure and monitor progress.

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References:
Goetsch, D.L. and Davis, S.B., 2014. Quality management for organizational excellence.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson.
Norris, P.E., O'Rourke, M., Mayer, A.S. and Halvorsen, K.E., 2016. Managing the wicked
problem of transdisciplinary team formation in socio-ecological systems. Landscape and
Urban Planning, 154, pp.115-122.
Quinn, R.E., Bright, D., Faerman, S.R., Thompson, M.P. and McGrath, M.R.,
2014. Becoming a master manager: A competing values approach. John Wiley & Sons.
Salas, E., Shuffler, M.L., Thayer, A.L., Bedwell, W.L. and Lazzara, E.H., 2015.
Understanding and improving teamwork in organizations: A scientifically based practical
guide. Human Resource Management, 54(4), pp.599-622.