The Importance of Team Building in Project Management Report

This report delves into the crucial role of team building in project management, particularly within the context of Australian projects. It examines the benefits of team-building exercises, emphasizing their impact on team collaboration, communication, and overall project success. The research explores various aspects, including the background of team building, evidence of research gaps, and the significance of the intended research. The methodology involves qualitative and quantitative data collection methods such as observation, interviews, and questionnaires. The findings highlight the positive correlation between team-building activities and project outcomes, emphasizing the importance of fostering a collaborative environment. The report also discusses the implications of these findings for leadership management and team development, offering insights into how organizations can leverage team building to enhance employee engagement and project delivery. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of team building for fostering a positive work environment and improving project outcomes.

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Table of Contents
Description of group research Topic and Overall aim.........................................................2
Background of research project...........................................................................................2
Evidence of research gap or problem from literature..........................................................3
Significance of Intended Research......................................................................................4
Research Questions..............................................................................................................5
Research approach, data collection method and sampling method.....................................5
Research finding and its implication...................................................................................6
References............................................................................................................................8

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Description of group research Topic and Overall aim
Team building aims to bring different people by focusing on collaboration and teamwork.
There are many fun activities which allow the people to see each in various light that will again
help them in connecting different setting (Aga, Noorderhaven and Vallej 2016). Team building
activities are vital for large projects in Australia as it helps in building best practices. This will
merely help the people to come to work, collaborate easily so that they can trust each other. The
main goal of team building is all about building a much stronger unit for different workers.
Background of a research project
For most of the Australian projects, organization come up with team together and bring
people so that they can have an idea from them. Project with open floor form an option that aims
to build up a platform where creative people can provide new innovation (Thomas, Morin and
Kira 2017). Project manager need to focus on team building activity which builds up the suitable
environment for interaction. This particular step will help them in building technological
development which is required by world. The team-building concept has been developed in such
a way that it can force the people to brainstorm about the old issues. The exercise merely focuses
on people which will help to talk to each other. Business leaders understand the importance of
diverse workplace where people respect each other background and opinion. People should
follow this so that they can have better communication and avoiding any conflict or
misunderstanding (Alsoubaie et al. 2019). Project manager can easily observe the kind of
leadership style which is being used that is coaching or authoritative. It will merely help the
business leaders to cultivate the current leaders and appointing new project managers.

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Evidence of research gap or problem from literature
Teamwork can be defined as a cooperative method which allows people to have
extraordinary skills. In addition, it also highlights the fact that the team come up with a common
notion where members of team can easily create an effective and mutual relation for achieving
goals (Beauchamp, McEwan and Waldhauser 2017). Teamwork generally depends on the
individual who is working in a cooperative environment so that they can achieve common goals
through skill and knowledge. The team is considered to an integrated part of the project and
needs to be integrated as a part of delivery of different units. Successful teamwork’s mainly
depends on synergism of the current team members. It ultimately creates an environment where
individual can contribute and participate in providing for promoting an effective work
environment (Lacerenza et al. 2018). Team members need to be flexible enough so that they can
adopt corporative environment where goals can be achieved by the help of collaboration.
As per Warmelink et al. (2017), a number of attributes are needed for completing overall
successful teamwork. There is a number of attributes which are needed analyzed in the literature.
Team members are generally committed for overall team success and project goal. A successful
team is generally motivated, engaged and aim to have highest level of success (Hastings et al.
2018). A good team environment aims to bring out the best person. This merely helps them in
achieving goals at much superior level. Individual aims to promote and focus on the team
members so that they can easily contribute and achieve their desired things.
According to Couper et al. (2017), interpersonal skill is mainly inclusive of ability to
discuss issues which are open to team members like honest and supportive. It merely highlights
the fact of how to show respect, trustworthy, team commitment to different individuals. There is
a need for focusing on the ability to do work in an effective way with the team members. In

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addition, there is need for active listening to the overall concern of various team members
inclusive of contributing values. It will merely help in creating the best work environment where
team members can receive and provide proper feedback. Composition of team is an important
factor that helps in creating successful team. In certain cases, team members required to be
completely aware of the particular team role and understanding the things expected from them. It
is mainly done with respect to the contribution to team and project (Sherstyuk, Olekh and
Kolesnikova 2016). Team members require to completely aware of their overall contributing to
both project and team. They require to be completely aware of different team process, practices
for new concepts. Effective leadership aim to play a key role in overall success which is
inclusive of decision-making and solving issues.
Significance of Intended Research
Most of the business requires time so that they can develop the employee with a certain
number of benefits. Team building is considered to be as one of the important areas of
development. Being a business leader, team members can easily get a huge number of benefits
by incorporating certain number of exercise. Team building is worthy of both time and effort.
There are many instances when co-workers are forced are forced to work on project which are
outside the normal duties (Warmelink et al. 2017). For tackling any problem, co-workers come
up with huge number of ideas which can help in solving problem. The ultimate result is much
greater trust for co-workers when they return to daily office task. Team building is mainly
designed in such a way so that it can brainstorm people about issues and talk about themselves in
similar way. The exercise merely forces the people to follow certain number script at the time of
establishing communication with each other (Kim 2017). It is considered to be much fast
reaching benefits. In this way, c-workers learn much about each other talent and skills. In

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addition, it also helps in learning about cultural history. Business leaders also understand diverse
workplace where people tend to respect each other background and opinion. This merely leads to
much better communication and a few understanding of conflict (McLardy and Soares 2017).
Team- building also help in identifying some of the core competencies where employers aim to
seek some of the employees. Business leadership also help in identifying some of the trait where
this information can be used for building strong team. This is mainly achieved by making
investment in the building up this for the people.
Research Questions
 What are benefits of team building exercise in large project of Australia?
 How does team building help to enhance team members career growth?
 Does team building help in building high performing teams?
Research approach, data collection method and sampling method
Research approach can be defined as a plan and procedure which comprises of series of
step. It merely comprises of certain methods like data collection, analysis and interpretation.
Research approach is generally of two types data collection and data analysis or reasoning
(Wang, Xu and Shi 2019). For this particular research approach, we are making use of data
collection method which is qualitative and quantitative.
For this research, we are making use of three kind of data collection method like
Observation: It is a method which has an important place in descriptive research. It is
considered to be as one the significant and common way of data collection. An analysis has been
done concerning response of questionnaires set on team building. The response from interview is

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revealed by team members that what they express at the time of conversation with the
interviewer.
Interview: It is a well-known technique which is very much popularly used in different
field of research. It can be stated as a sense of the oral question. Instead of providing response,
interviewee provides the necessary information in case of face-to-face relationship (Aga,
Noorderhaven and Vallej 2016). It can be considered to be much more flexible tool which
provides permits explanation and variation as per the situation.
Questionaries’: It aims to provide most fast and simple technique for collecting data
about a various individual which is there is wide and extended field. In this particular method, a
list of question is given to team members working under different projects. A properly build and
administrative question can work like the best tool which has appropriate and useful data-
collecting devices.
Sampling: Sampling method is very much useful in research. It can be stated as one of
the vital factors which highlights the overall accuracy of research on team building. If anything
goes wrong in the research, then the user will have an ample time to be directly reflected into the
final result.
Research finding and its implication
From this research, the study highlights how well the projects can be benefits from team
building activities. Team building activity is an important aspect of the overall success of project
in Australia. The paper highlights how the compelling relationship which exists in between the
six attributes. Successful team is due to collaboration of team members and development of
quality products. Effective teamwork can easily affect overall successful delivery for the project

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and its implementation. Team building is not all about organization policies or even new
products. It is the main time to bring people to a single platform and provide them with the
reason for interacting with each other. Team building activities can easily take place in the office
or even outside the location.

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