Team Development Report: Team Dynamics and Development Strategies

This report delves into the significance of effective teamwork in modern organizations, emphasizing the increasing need for improved team dynamics due to heightened competition. It explores the benefits of teamwork, including enhanced quality, productivity, and cost reduction through brainstorming sessions. The report applies Tuckman's Team Development theories and Belbin's model to analyze team development processes and procedures. It also includes a reflection on the author's formative assessment experience, highlighting the importance of team roles, leadership responsibilities, and the impact of factors like working environment, employee coordination, and skill development on team success. The report discusses the roles of various teams within an organization, the importance of both hard and soft skills, and the impact of employee satisfaction and emotional intelligence. The author reflects on their experience of the formative assessment, detailing the five steps they followed, the role each team member played, and the significance of factors such as appropriate working environment, employee co-ordination and improvement in the skills and competencies of the employees in the organizations.

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The importance of the effective team work is seen to increase in a notable manner in
recent years. With a precise focus on the increasing level of competition in the world of
business, majority of the organizations are facing the need of focusing on the improvement of
the team work. Goetsch and Davis (2014) claimed that the organizations are facing the
necessity of making sure that all the employees work as a group as that enables the
organizations for the achievement of the much required success in the aspect of quality
improvement and production. On the other hand, Kalargiros and Manning (2015) highlighted
an important fact with the claim that the modern organizations are facing the requirement of
reducing the cost associated with their business operations and under such situation, the
occurrences of the brainstorming sessions amongst the members of the teams, play a
significant role for the success of the organizations.
Other than this, the companies have the chance to improve their efficiency along with
the quality of the services with the effective improvement of the binding between the
employees as the strong bond between the junior and the senior employees eases out the
difficulty of the management in meeting the developmental needs of the junior employees.
The paper discusses regarding the various process and procedures related to the development
of the team in any modern organizations. The paper shows the application of the Tuckman
Team Development theories along with the Belbin’s theories for the effective elaboration of
the importance of the team development inside the organizations. In addition to this, the
paper provides significant amount of information regarding my experience in the completion
of the formative assessment. Along with this, the paper provides key information such as the
benefits of working in the teams with a precise focus on the roles and responsibilities of the
leaders and the members of the teams.

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Section 1:
Considering the business operations of the organizations, it is visible that majority of
the companies have multiple teams such as the marketing, human resources and operations.
The main objective of the marketing team of the companies is to make sure that the business
operations of the companies is promoted in the nation and at the global stage as well. On the
other hand, the human resource management team of the companies is responsible for the
effective management of the process and procedures related to the human resource of the.
The HR management team of the companies is responsible for recruitment, selection and
management of the performances of the labours and the engineers in the companies (Noe et
al. 2017). Other than this, the operations team of the company is a large team which includes
the group of the engineers along with the labours for the execution of the operational works.
Considering the relevancy of learning the hard and soft skills inside the organizations,
it is understandable that the employees of the organizations have the responsibility of
managing the operational activities and under such situation, the impact of smallest of the
faults have significant amount of effect on the reputation of the companies. The faulty
operations from the part of the employees of the organizations in executing their construction
related operations have the possibility of forcing the organizations towards facing the
financial fines along with the reputational damage. With a precise look back at the increasing
level of competition in the modern industry, the reputation and the good will of the
companies is observed to carry the capability to influence the purchase intention of the
customers in an efficient manner. Hence, it is important for the employees of the company to
participate in the training and developmental activities for the improvement of the skills and
competencies so that they be able to perform in a flawless manner.
Along with the hard skills, the employees of the organizations have the necessity to
make sure that they achieve the soft skills which have the capability to provide a significant

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advantage to the employees in managing the teams and the operational activities of the
members of the teams. As the modern industry is facing increment in the demand with the
increased population, the job satisfaction of the employees is observed to be at threat owing
to the increasing work pressure. Under such situation, it becomes important for the
employees of the organizations to have the adequate amount of skills in the aspect of the
emotional intelligence so that the management of the operational activities inside the
organization is smooth (Wheeler 2016). Along with that, the learning of the employees
regarding the ethical business operations have the potential to provide significant amount of
help to the organizations in strengthening their business reputation and the corporate image
(Salleh and Ab Aziz 2014).
Team Dynamics and Team Theories:
Considering the Tuckman’s team development theory, it is visible that the companies
have the chance to develop the project teams during the forming stage. In the next stage
which is storming stage, the company has the chance to conduct barnstorming activities for
developing the ideas that can be used to execute the business operations. The employees of
the organizations are expected to have constructive conflict in this stage with considerable
number of ideas coming from different members of the team. The senior management of the
companies are expected to promote the constructive conflict as it increases the involvement
of the employees towards the teams (Raes et al. 2015). During the norming stage, the
management team of the organizations are expected to intervene and develop the roles and
responsibilities of the employees with mutual communication. With the allocation of the
tasks and formed roles, the teams will approach the performing stage where the effective
execution of the operational activities will take place. However, the senior management of
the organizations are expected to make sure that they manage the developmental and training
needs of the employees in an efficient manner (Malik 2013). During the adjourning stage of

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the model, the management of the companies is expected to celebrate the success with the
activities such as the team dinners.
Considering the Belbin model, the formation of the roles and responsibilities amongst
the employees is observed to have a strong influence on the success of the organizations. The
success of the teams are observed to be dependent on the formation of the roles such as the
resource investigator, team worker, coordinator, plant, monitor evaluator, specialist, shaper,
implementer and completer finisher (Batenburg, van Walbeek and in der Maur 2013). The
availability of the strengths of the such as the outgoing and enthusiastic for the resource
investigator, co-operative and perceptive for team workers, mature and confident for Co-
ordinator, creative and imaginative for Plant, sober, strategic and discerning for Monitor
Evaluator, single-minded, self-starting and dedicated for specialist, challenging and dynamic
for Shaper, practical, reliable and efficient for Implementer, painstaking and conscientious for
Complete Finishers are considered to be important for the success of the organizations in the
improvement of the team dynamics (Siakas and Siakas 2015).
During the formative assessment, we gathered considerable amount of practical
knowledge regarding the techniques for managing our operations. All of us were pretty
excited for undertaking the assignment where we followed five steps starting from
brainstorming sessions, screening of the ideas, market analysis test, beta testing of the
products along with pitching the idea to the senior managers. The brainstorming session
helped us in gaining multiple number of ideas which increases the effectiveness of our
solution. Though all of us provided important and innovative ideas for the product, however
the idea of student 1 was the best suited and appropriate idea and that was mutually selected
by us. On the other hand, the student 2 and 3 did the research regarding the market. Along
with the analysis, the student 2 was responsible for effective co –ordination amongst the
members. We used whatsapp for the effective communication. Along with the other

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members, I was also responsible for the beta analysis. Thus the division of the work between
all of us helped us in developing an effective co- ordination and the mutual understanding.
The success in effectively implementing the individual operational activities played a crucial
role for us in completing the project in a significantly successful manner. Apart from this, all
of us worked as Team worker and plant at the same time as we had the required expertise of
doing the individual assigned works.
Three factors that are significantly important for the teams to effectively achieve their
objectives are an appropriate working environment, co- ordination between the employees of
the organizations and the improvement in the skills and competencies of the employees of the
organizations. A working environment which contributes to the free flowing exchange
amongst the employees and in the development of the trust amongst the employees have great
significance for the success of the organizations. Along with this, the capability of the
organizations in meeting the developmental needs of the employees has the potential to
influence the success of the organizations. The decline in the organizational culture, the
incapability in meeting the developmental needs of the employees of the organization and
formation of the destructive conflicts have the capability to affect the cohesive group work in
negative manner (Boyce et al. 2015).
Section 2:
During the formative assessment, our main focus was on the improvement of the team
performances as we had the idea of the fact that any sort of discrepancy in the operations of
any of the members of us, have the potential to affect the success of the overall project. It is
understandable that no individual employee has the potential to successfully complete all
sorts of work of the project and under such situation, the allocation of the tasks on the basis

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of the expertise of the employees have the capability to place increase the success rate of the
team.
With a precise focus on the formation of the roles and responsibilities of the team, it is
evident that the distribution of the operations had tremendous impact on the success of the
team. All of us were aware of the strengths and weakness of our teams which helped us in the
effective distribution of the tasks. As mentioned earlier, we made sure that the allocation of
the tasks is in accordance with the expertise level. The student 2 had the capability to lead
teams in an efficient manner and with a precise focus on the experience of his leadership, all
of us decided to place him in the position of the coordinator (McCormack et al. 2018). The
also helped student 3 in the market research and analysis which was a significant strength of
the student 3. All of us had the knowledge of the problem and the possible solutions that will
be effective for eliminating the problem. However, we participated in a brainstorming session
where all of us decided to take the idea of the student 1. I was good at doing the beta analysis
and that was well known by the other members. Hence, I had to the beta analysis for the
solution. The distribution off the tasks in accordance to the expertise of the members helped
us to complete the project in a flawless manner.
Benefits of working in a team:
The benefit for a leader in dealing with conflicts or difficult situation is notably
limited. The leader is responsible for making the tough decision which not only needs to be
accurate in terms of achieving the desired objective but also needs to make sure that the
decision is not harming any of the individuals. However, in all cases, the formation of the
decisions that are exclusive of causing any sort of harms to the employees becomes
impossible. On the other hand, the difficult situations provide the much required scope to the
employees to extract the best out of them.

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The benefit for the leaders in developing the roles during the team assignment is that
the leader have the chance to assign the tasks to the individuals who have the adequate
amount of skills and experience of executing the tasks with limited amount of faults. For an
employee, the formation of the roles and responsibilities play a crucial role in gaining the
information regarding the tasks that he or she is asked to do (Siami-Irdemoosa, Dindarloo and
Sharifzadeh 2015). More importantly, it also allows the members to have the assignments in
accordance to the expertise level.
With a precise focus on the formative assessment that we completed, it is visible that
we started from the scratch as we had only the problem statement present for us. However,
we were able to understand the importance of the team work for the effective completion of
the project. Under such situation, we applied the work breakdown technique and structured
the whole process in five different stages starting from the brainstorming sessions, screening
ideas, market analysis, beta testing to pitching to the senior managers. In each of the stages,
we made sure that we reach our objective and the success in it was visible with the fact, we
identified the idea of student 1 for the solution, we were able to do the market research with
the help of student 2 and 3. At the same time, I conducted the beta analysis. Hence we were
able to prepare a solution and the plan for introducing the solution to the managers. The
success of our team in the mentioned assignment is visible with our ability to place the
solution in front of the managers and pitch for it.

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