A team comprises a group of people linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent sub-tasks.
A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize his/her strengths and minimize his/her weaknesses. Team members need to learn how to help one another, help other team members realize their true potential, and create an environment that allows everyone to go beyond their limitations. A team becomes more than just a collection of people when a strong sense of mutual commitment creates synergy, thus generating performance greater than the sum of the performance of its individual members.
But to form a
team there are various stages, which helps the organization or mangers to form
an effective and efficient team.
FORMING: - the group forms
and members learn about each other by exploring each other.
STORMING: - as the members
start to know each other and more comfortable with each other they start to
oppose themselves.
NORMING:
- after the
dispute or fight gets resolved, group unity emerges.
PERFORMING:
- with
understanding and confidence in other members start to redirect their effort to
complete the group task.
ADJOURNING: - now the group moves to achieve
high performance with attitude.
A team that continues to work together
will eventually develop an increased level of bonding. This can help people
avoid unnecessary conflicts since they have become well acquainted with each
other through team work. Team members’ ratings of their satisfaction with a
team is correlated with the level of teamwork processes present.
Every team member can offer their
unique knowledge and ability to help improve other team members. Through
teamwork the sharing of these qualities will allow team members to be more
productive in the future.
In the above
example despite of valley gap being greater than their normal step they cross
it very easily. And the key concept there is team work. Like when of member is
in high risk other two support that one and cross the valley.
Steps involved in
crossing the valley.
1.
In step one all are safe.
2.
First person is at half risk
3.
First person is at full risk while other two are safe. Supporting first.
4.
First and second person both are half risk and thirds is safe.
5.
Second person is at full risk, while first and third are safe.
6.
Second and third are at half risk, while first had crossed the river and is
safe.
7.
Third is at half risk, while first and second are safe.
8.
All crossed the river successfully and safe.
Now the benefit
of team work was evidently visible from the above mentioned examples.
A single brain can’t bounce different ideas off of each other. Each team member
has a responsibility to contribute equally and offer their unique perspective
on a problem to arrive at the best possible solution. Teamwork can lead to
better decisions, products, or services.
A single person taking on multiple
tasks will not be able to perform at a same pace as a team can. When people
work together they can complete tasks faster by dividing the work to people of
different abilities and knowledge.
Here all three members are equally
responsible for the task; they are equally contributor to task. Role of three
are similar not the same. Three thousand people can cross the valley using the
same concept. It’s like building an organization assigning different task to
different member but the overall goal is the same.
Any organization must be designed according
to customer demands and then people should be adjusted or assigned work
accordingly.
Quoting Michael Jordon "Talent Wins Games but TEAMWORK wins Championships"
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