Strategies for Building and Managing Teams: A Management Report

This report focuses on strategies for effective team building and conflict management within an organizational context. It emphasizes the importance of teamwork for business success and suggests methods such as group meetings, open communication, induction training, and fostering trust to enhance team dynamics. The report highlights the inevitability of conflict and recommends managerial interventions to facilitate collaboration, including group activities and training programs. It also stresses the significance of aligning individual strengths with team goals, and concludes that working in groups can increase efficiency and generate a wider range of ideas. The report also includes the reference list.

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Strategies that helps in team building
It is true that teamwork is essential part for any business. For ensuring the team work
among all the employees, manager can decide to take a group meeting in which workers will
get to know the each other and build the mutual trust, and understanding. In addition to this,
open communication is quite essential for making the employees to know each other and start
working together. By encouraging the means to speak opening, making suggestions, sharing
the ideas and by proving voice for their opinion, manager can increase the level of
participation of employees. It is true that communication is a two Way Street through which
employees starts knowing each other (Belcher, 2019).
In addition to this, it should also provide the induction training through which he can
become familiar with all the members who are working in the organization. With the help of
this training, both the employees get to know each other perspective, beliefs and values, as
well as they can share their experience that will help in great way to increase participation of
both. It is also true that conflict in every organization is evitable. Conflict arises when
disagreement occurs between the people over the competition, status power, values as well as
resources. For example- in the case, Heather is also introvert as she only wants to complete
the project by itself and even without taking the assistance of other (Noe, Hollenbeck,
Gerhart & Wright, 2017).
It sometimes becomes a problem when employees are required to work together.
Therefore, as a manager, it is essential to adopt such strategies that will help in increasing the
team building in organization. Trust is the essential aspect in every organization to work
together as a team. Therefore, manager can demonstrate the loyalty to the team members by
speaking to them and express the gratitude for them. By doing this, employees will also think
that organization is concerned about their development and as a result, they will try to give
their best without any conflict. In such conflict, the assistance of manager can prove to be
helpful for bringing out the best in employees while working as a team (Rahim, 2017). Group
work initiative by manager will also help the business to get best results quickly when people
are committed to each other in every project.
In addition to this, it can start the group activities so that employee will take initiative
and try to know each other. IN addition to this, when people work as a team, they not only

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become invested in the project rather they become more invested in each other. By working
in group activities, team members will start supporting each other and start adapting the
working style of each other. The group activity will result in teamwork approaches even aside
of the official team structure, and sharing the ideas or brainstorming in order to propel one
another to reach the professional as well as personal goals. This concept will help in building
the motivation and morale of employees. It can also showcase the people to know their
strength by working together as a team (Harris & Sherblom, 2018).
Training is the most significant part where employees can learn several benefits of
any concept. The theoretical aspect regarding team building can be included by the manager
for employees. By knowing the importance of training for their personal as well as
professional development, employees will start working in a team. It can also assign the
assignments to the employees for improving their attitude regarding teamwork (Aga,
Noorderhaven & Vallejo, 2016). Manager can also provide the task that plays to the strength
of both; it can improve the team building. It will also assist the manager in creating the
skilled and stringer workforce.
Working in team is the most common part for the business success and it will help the
manager to fulfil the responsibilities of team and complete the several special projects. In the
case, it is the challenge for different employees to work together as a team (Ford, Piccolo &
Ford, 2017). Therefore, for such employees, manager can start the various type of team
building exercises in order to encourage them for working as a team. In this way, it can be
concluded that working in whole is much greater than working in parts. Working in group
can also result in increasing the efficiency. Team working can gives the team member an
opportunity to bring several ideas and match up their work.

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References
Aga, D. A., Noorderhaven, N., & Vallejo, B. (2016). Transformational leadership and project
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Belcher, L.M. (2019). The advantages of group work & teamwork. Retrieved from:
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Ford, R. C., Piccolo, R. F., & Ford, L. R. (2017). Strategies for building effective virtual
teams: Trust is key. Business Horizons, 60(1), 25-34.
Harris, T. E., & Sherblom, J. C. (2018). Small group and team communication. Waveland
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Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. M. (2017). Human resource
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Rahim, M. A. (2017). Managing conflict in organizations. United Kingdom: Routledge.