Team Building Plan: Course on Leadership and Team Management

This report presents a comprehensive team-building plan designed for a manufacturing organization. It outlines the inclusion of functional areas such as Human Resources, Accounting/Finance, and Marketing/Sales, highlighting their roles in organizational development and growth. The report emphasizes the characteristics of effective team members, including knowledge, skills, active listening, and effective communication, and provides strategies for delegating responsibility, managing conflict, and making decisions. Furthermore, it details the methods for measuring team success, encompassing schedule adherence, quality of work, and performance against the business case. The plan aims to foster a high-performing, collaborative team environment to achieve organizational goals and objectives. The report also underscores the importance of shared leadership, open communication, and trust among team members.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Functional Area...............................................................................................................................3
Human resource...........................................................................................................................3
Accounting/Finance.....................................................................................................................3
Marketing/Sales...........................................................................................................................3
Reason for including functional areas.............................................................................................4
Characteristics of effective team members......................................................................................4
Knowledge...................................................................................................................................4
Skills............................................................................................................................................4
Actively listen..............................................................................................................................5
Effectively communication..............................................................................................................5
Strategies for delegating responsibility...........................................................................................5
Learn to let go..............................................................................................................................5
Establish a firm priority system...................................................................................................6
Strategies for managing conflict......................................................................................................6
Design an invitation to meet........................................................................................................6
Conversational strategically.........................................................................................................6
Success measurement......................................................................................................................6
Schedule.......................................................................................................................................7

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Quality.........................................................................................................................................7
Performance to the business case................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
A manufacturing organization corporation markets one unique product. A team will work
together over a nine-month frame of time to develop a proposal for business. High performing
team characteristics include deep and solid trust in the purpose of the team and each other. This
team will refer a group of focused individual with complementary skills and specialized
expertise that collaborate, produce consistency, and innovate superior result. The group will
pursue excellence performance through shared leadership, shared goals, open communication,
and trust among its members. The outcome of the organization is to develop and grow strategies
of the organization. The following discussion will cover the functional area, reasons,
characteristics, objectives, strategies, and measurement.
Functional Area
Human resource
In organization team member of human resource build class to increase productivity
(Markus, 2012). They all will help to build productive employees in the organization. Training
and monitoring will help the organization to cross-train team members to fill the vacant place.
Accounting/Finance
A team member will be responsible for the reporting, recording including account
payable, financial reporting, maintaining financial control, payroll and account receivable.
Marketing/Sales
These team members will promote the organization with the sale of services and
products. These will help the organization to get the necessary research to identify target
audience and customers.

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Reason for including functional areas
The functional area of human resources is staffing, recruiting, compensations,
compliance, and human resources information systems (Port, 2016). This will help the
organization to deal with the scheduling time and productivity to suit workers. This will help a
team member to work with the actions to solve the problems.
This functional area will be reporting the work of the organization. The department of
accounting team will be stable with the pivotal growth of the organization. Role of a team
member is to interpretation and measure of financial information.
This functional area advanced market at the global level with the recognition of a brand
and new ideas of product. Role of a team member will be advertising, sales, adopting, and
promotion of the products of the organization.
Characteristics of effective team members
Knowledge
A team member should have the knowledge to solve the problems with the
responsibilities and reliability to complete the task with the proper knowledge of rules within the
deadlines.
Skills
A team member should have the skills to respect and support the organization like a
problem solver and always be ready to help. This will help the organization to put genuine
commitment towards clients.

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Actively listen
Respectfully consider the ideas and viewpoints abilities of other team members with the
potential to actively considering the words of other team members. This will helps the
organization to inform the decisions.
Effectively communication
By deep in meaning and keeping the message simple, it is easy to communicate with
members of the team (Anthony, 2014). A consequence of failing to do so will write a mission
statement. This will include direct communication with the team members. This mission
statement will include the methods of direct communication and process stick to it. This will help
the organization to achieve the exact goals by filling the expectations and priorities. This will
help to set roles within the team members of the organization. This will increase the sales of the
organization within a few months. Perceived security will feasible the value of the goals without
waste of time and efforts to achieve a seemingly pointless goal. This will also enhance the goals
with confidence and assertiveness.
Strategies for communication, delegating responsibility, making decisions, and handling conflict
Strategies for delegating responsibility
As a good leader, it is necessary to delegate tasks to employees (Bartling, 2011). This is
considered more effective and easier to done teamwork. Following delegation strategies can be
used into practice to increase the efficiency of an organization.
Learn to let go
The employees of the organization will feel dedicated to completing own work and
execute their work effectively.

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Establish a firm priority system
By developing priority systems for tasks. This system will vary based on expertise, tasks
to handle and create categories according to the degree of effort a task required for the team.
Given someone else responsibility for low skill task and high efforts of the team to save lots of
time.
By assigning the task to individuals, an organization will achieve the targets easily and
will increase the number of profits.
Strategies for managing conflict
Design an invitation to meet
By sending the invitation through e-mail to formulate the important messages (Lerbinger,
2012). Conversation starters will suggest respecting colleague’s experience, judgment, and
opinion. Healthy and constructive conflict will diverse with the challenge and combined efforts
of the team.
Conversational strategically
Conversation against empathy is very important (Kwon, 2014). This will help the team
members to have a more constructive conversation with the interest of the organization. Related
programs and prepared to listen strategically will help the team members to look out for possible
opportunities.
Success measurement
A formal evaluation of the project will be used during the end of each stage that provides
clear identification of the project performance. Following are the success measurement process
and tools.

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Schedule
By updating the schedule of a team project, it is easy to do work more formally at the end
of each phase and stage.
Quality
The end of the team project is based on a team project with a quality review. This will
help the organization to review and evaluate the plans for achieving goals.
Performance to the business case
Evaluation of the team based on the target performance of quality, timescale, and budget.
Conclusion
Planning, delegation, and ideas of the organization will support the organization to
achieve the incredible results. These functions of the organization will develop the scenario to
function the important strength of the teamwork. This will develop the consistency for updating
everyone to have the same information. Every team member in a team is important and essential
in terms of overall objectives.

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Kwon, W. (2014). Strategies For Constructing Views. Conversational Strategically, 265-290.
Lerbinger, O. (2012). Facing Disaster Conflicts. Newyork: Routledge.
Markus, M. (2012). Functional Top Management Team Members. Journal of Management, 45-
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Port, H. (2016). Human Resource. Human Resource EDU, 62-69.