Effective Team Working and Communication: Characteristics and Benefits

This report explores the characteristics and benefits of effective team working and communication within organizations. It discusses the Tuckman Team Development Model, outlining the stages of forming, storming, norming, and performing, which are crucial for team development. Furthermore, the report examines Belbin Team Roles, emphasizing the importance of diverse roles such as Monitor Evaluator, Plant, Specialist, Shaper, Implementer, Completer, Coordinator, Team worker, and Resource Investigator for team effectiveness. The benefits of effective teams, including enhanced problem-solving capabilities and increased potential for innovation, are also highlighted, referencing various academic sources to support the analysis. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments for students.

MODULE EFFECTIVE
TEAM WORKING AND
COMMUNICATION

Characteristics and Benefits of effective teams
 Characteristics of effective teams
 In order to form effective teams within an organization for the purpose
of achieving the organizational growth, the following theories can be
used. The characteristics of effective teams has been mentioned:
 Tuck man Team Development Model
 According to this model, there are four stages of developing an
effective team which involves forming, storming, norming and
performing.
 Forming
 Storming
 Norming
 Performing

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Belbin Team roles
In order to form effective teams, it is essential for an organization to take care
of the Belbin team roles and make sure that the members within a team are
capable of carrying out the specific duties.
 Monitor Evaluator
 The Plant
 The Specialist
 The Shaper
 The Implementer
 The completer
 The coordinator
 The team worker
 The resource investigator

 Benefits of effective teams
 There are various benefits of effective teams to an
organization, which includes:
 Enhanced problem solving
 When there are people specialized under different
types of skills are considered for the purpose of
development of team, it helps the them in increasing
their efficiency and productivity within the team as
the minds of different individuals get considered in
order to solve a specific situation.
 Increased potential for innovation
 It has been noticed within several organizations that
the better the team, the higher will be the capacity of
an organization to innovate something which is
meaningful and beneficial for the customers.

REFERENCES
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 Black, S., and et.al 2019. Team Development Over Time. Organizational Behavior.
 Collins, C. and Castro, E., 2020. The Five Stages of Team Development.
 Herbert, F. and Will, P., 2021. The effects of diversity on teams change over time. LSE Business Review.
 Lynch, D.S., Lynch, M.J. and Clemens, C.M., 2018. Belbin Team Roles. The Handbook of Communication
Training: A Best Practices Framework for Assessing and Developing Competence.
 Peralta, C.F., and et.al 2018. Team development: definition, measurement and relationships with team
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 Serenhov, O. and Kaldera Hollu Pathiranage. P.P.. 2021. Team Development in Global Virtual Teams:
Application of Tuckman’s Team Development model.
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