Fundamentals of Team Development for High Performance

This presentation discusses the definition of team and team effectiveness. It also covers the fundamentals of team development for high performance, a model for defining team purpose and direction, social intelligence and leadership coaching skills, systematic thinking and learning organization, diversity in team setting, and team building for stress tolerance. The subject is team development and the course code and name are not mentioned. The presentation is relevant for anyone interested in improving team effectiveness.

Team Effectiveness

Definition of team
• Team according to the oxford dictionary refers to people coming
together or working together in order to achieve some common
goals.
• According to Cambridge, team refers to a group of people working
together properly or even all the actions of a group that can help in
achieving some common goals (Dictionary.cambridge.org 2019).
• According to the Webster, team refers to the work done by
associates individually and subordinating their personal
prominence for the benefit as a whole (Merriam-webster.com
2019).
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Definition of team effectiveness
• The degree to which an activity has been successful in
becoming successful is called effectiveness as per
oxford dictionary.
• Producing an effect that was decided or desired or an
activity that is attractive is effectiveness as per Webster.
• According to Cambridge, effectiveness refers to the
ability to produce the desired results and to be
successful.

Fundamentals of team development for high
performance
• A team that performs highly comprises of group of people who
share common goals, vision, metrics and they collaborate with
each other and they take up the responsibility of their own
actions and usually are directed towards out-standing results
(Alsharo, Gregg and Ramirez 2017).
• In order to develop such a high performance team it is
necessary to have a clear inspiring purpose, establishing a
strategy and communication of the same, developing
indicators of success and clearly defining the responsibility
and roles of people.

A model for defining team purpose and direction is
developed
• One of the major models for improving the team effectiveness
is that of the T7 model
• It is designed by Lombardo and Eichinger and includes 7 T’s
that re- Thrust, Trust, talent, teaming skills, task skills, team
leader fit and team support.
• These 7 T’s area aimed at solving all the problems basically
faced by organization and that come in the way of teams in
becoming effective.

Social intelligence and leadership coaching skills applied to
facilitate paradigm shifts in team context
• Social intelligence refers to ability to be aware of one-self
and others.
• Therefore when the top management have the ability to
be aware of others emotions, they can carry out a
change more effectively because they will be in a better
position to explain the employees (Cooke and Hilton
2015).
• Through effective leadership, leaders can carry out a
paradigm shift within the organization more easily by
inspiring the people and others.

Systematic thinking and learning organization used to
encourage innovative thinking and problem solving
• System thinking is one of the 5 principles of Peter Senge and it is this
principle that binds all the other principles together.
• System thinking helps people of the organization to see organization
as a whole and not made up of parts.
• Therefore it can be said that it encourages creative thinking or
innovative thinking because it helps people think in an more effective
way (Guchait, Lei and Tews 2016).
• Moreover a learning organization is one where there is free
communication between the people and therefore information and
ideas can be easily shared without the feeling of being judged.

Diversity in team setting encourages individual to
contribute to organizational success
• Diversity in a team contributes to organizational success
because it helps in enhancing talent, experiences and skills.
• It helps in creating innovation in the organization because-
when people from diverse backgrounds start working with
each other creative concepts are born.

• Language barriers and cultural diversity can often act as
obstacles for a growing company therefore by creating a
culture where people from different backgrounds are
appointed, the organizations can easily expand its
operations.
• It helps in improving the ability of the company because
different people from different background bring various skills
with themselves.
• Employees feel motivated in an environment where all the
people feel that they are a part of the company and there is
no discrimination.

Team building in a way such that they can become
stress tolerant
• Through proper team building in organizations there can be
free communication between all the people of the
organization.
• Employees will be able to give ideas and feedback without
the fear of being judged.
• Employees will also be able to become stress free in such a
participative environment.

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