Managing People and Team

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Managing People and Team
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In every workplace, individuals need to work on projects as a team sometimes or the
other (Duhigg, 2016). For the ones, who are not used to work in groups, collaborating with
each other can be a tough task, especially when they do not like the others who they are to be
considered as their group members. In such cases, establishing a cohesive and productive
team can be really challenging for the managers. The same thing happened for the team
manager of Anthony, Arthur and Heather. This paper is going to elaborate on discussing the
strategies that would be imposed in order to bring the team members as a productive and
cohesive team.
Human beings are social creatures. They crave for friendship and positive interactions
always. The same goes for work places as well. As per Dierner and Tay (2017), “better the
relationships are at work, the happier and more productive employees are going to be”.
Successful building of a cohesive and productive team is not something very easy. In fact, it
takes huge efforts and huge patience, especially from the part of the managers. Cohesiveness
refers to the quality or potential of forming a united whole and productiveness is the
capability of producing something (Franz et al., 2016). A team in workplace consists of
members belonging from different backgrounds and of different nature. There are some who
do not want to get engaged into teams and want to do their assigned task individually on the
other hand, there are some who wants to work in teams but take the credit of doing things that
they has not done in the first place. Hence, a team consists of diverse nature.
As a leader or manager, all want to build and develop highly productive team. Having
worked with many executive leaders, most of the individuals in leadership tend towards
thinking their teams as highly productive and produce desired results. According to Raziq and
Maulabakhsh (2015), a productive team is built when the employees feel that they are cared
for and are more engaged. Hence, the key to create a positive and productive workplace
culture is all rooted in strong communication and collaboration. Cohesive working teams are

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well aware of how to share and communicate the workload for maximising the talents and
skills of the individual members. An ideal team is potential enough of coming together for
accomplishing the shared goals notwithstanding the differences in the working methods, the
level of skills and communications. Just by grouping the employees or team members
together and by hoping that they are successful is often very poor way of building teams.
Cameron and Green (2015) have claimed that “as a leader, you model the behaviours
you want your team to embody, as well as set the stage for what you want your company’s
workplace culture to look like” This simply means that in order to make a productive and
cohesive team, manager himself need to make himself a role model for their team members.
For this purpose, being transparent and open encourage the entire team to feel more
comfortable in discussing the new issues, ideas and for practicing a hearty art of debate. This
would also help in establishing great synergy. Choosing right members is the first and
foremost things to do in the process of building cohesive and productive team. One of the
most important factors that is to be determined before choosing the members is describing
their team’s mission. Deciding the goals of the team and the way of accomplishing them is
very important. After then, the process of selecting right team members contribute best to the
mission. Secondly, the next thing a successful cohesive and productive team require is that of
diversity. It is to note that a diverse team have a great access to many people with different
experiences and skills. Therefore, these groups would be able to pull from all these skills and
experiences for achieving the team’s mission. Furthermore, as stated by Hesse et al. (2015),
team building exercises are the best way of assessing how the individuals members work
together in order to attain a desired goal. Hence, prior to giving the team members some
important task to do, it is important to see how they handle something that is as simple as an
ice breaker. In this way, it would be easier to determine who is taking the lead, who is