Teamwork & Communication Assessment: Strategies for Development

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of teamwork and communication within an organization, highlighting the benefits of effective collaboration, including improved productivity, increased innovation, and efficient task delegation. It explores Tuckman's model of team development, outlining the stages of forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The report also examines various team roles, such as adaptability and strategy implementation, and discusses strategies for managing conflict among team members through effective communication and active listening. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of establishing clear expectations and respecting team members for successful team development. The report concludes that teamwork is crucial for the successful completion of tasks and offers insights into fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.

Team work and
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Benefits of team working.................................................................................................................3
Stages of team development............................................................................................................3
Team roles........................................................................................................................................4
Managing conflict among team members........................................................................................4
Successful team development..........................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References .......................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Team work and communication assessment is defined as way through which people
generally share their ideas, knowledge and information among people in an organisation. It is
very important is an organisation to have proper team work and communication among all staff
members. There are several importance of this such as setting of goals, keep everything clear and
set, timely completion of task and many more (Hernández-García and et.al 2018).
Benefits of team working
 Improves productivity- When working in a team task of each and every employees is
divided among them according to their skills and experience. Due to this every employee
is capable to do task according to their skills and expertise. Hence this helps to improve
productivity among employees in an organisation.
 Increase innovation- While working in team every member give innovative and
productive ideas to each other. Hence this helps to develop innovation in an organisation
which is helpful for organisation in long run.
 Delegating of task- It is easy for team leader of particular team to easily delegate or
transfer their work among employees in an organisation. Hence it lead to timely
completion of task in an organisation.
Stages of team development
According to Tuckman's model there are four stages of team development in an
organisation are as follows:
 Forming- Under this stage, employees are highly excited to be a part of team in an
organisation. Employees generally have positive expectation from their team members
under this stage. Moreover they are also anxious and frighten to know whether they
would be able to fit in team or not.
 Storming- In given stage, employees openly share their ideas with other team members
to be a part of team easily. Generally under this stage team leader boost communication
skills among their team members.

 Norming- This stage led employees or team members to forget their past mistakes which
they make while in a team and focuses on strength of their team members. This develop
positivism and friendly attitude among team members.
 Performing- Under this stage, team members actually start performing their job in order
to know whether they are doing well in job or not. This would help them to know
whether they would be able to sustain in team or not.
 Termination- This is considered as last stage of team building exercise where members
those who cannot fit into organisation leave the team forever.
Team roles
 Adaptability- Under this role, team members continuous adopt to the changes which
happen in an organisation to always remain productive and update.
 Strategy implementation- This role helps team members to plan and implement strategy
according to the situation or challenge they face in their organisation. This helps to
develop their creativity.
Managing conflict among team members
 Make effective communication- Team leaders by making an effective and proper
communication with their team members can manage conflict among team members.
 Carefully listening- Properly listening of employees problem feel them they are part of
team. This it helps to develop employee morale in an organisation.
Successful team development
 Establish expectation from team members- By making properly expectation from their
team members according to their calibre an organisation can make successful team in
long run.
 Respect team members- Every member in an organisation expect respect from their
colleagues. Therefore by respecting employee an organisation can make successful team
in an organisation (Barton, Bruce and Schreiber2018),

Conclusion
On the basis of above report it has been concluded that team work plays a very important
role in successful completion of task in an organisation. In this report, it has been discussed
various benefits of working in a team, different stages of team development according to
tuckman model. Moreover different roles of team has also been discussed and how an
organisation can manage employees conflict and various ways an organisation can adopt for
successful team development,

References
Books and Journals
Hernández-García, Á., Acquila-Natale, E., Chaparro-Peláez, J. and Conde, M.Á., 2018.
Predicting teamwork group assessment using log data-based learning
analytics. Computers in Human Behavior, 89, pp.373-384.
Barton, G., Bruce, A. and Schreiber, R., 2018. Teaching nurses teamwork: Integrative review of
competency-based team training in nursing education. Nurse education in practice, 32,
pp.129-137.