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Building Effective Teams

 

The purpose of team building is to improve the team's capacity to adapt, allow members to function at their most productive resourceful levels, and to achieve the teams goals. In developing teams there are four different stages that must be fully accomplished in order to reach its mission through achieving higher quality in the workplace. These stages in sequence are: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. The first three stages of team development must be completed in order to achieve stage four. In each stage there are distinct behaviors, feelings and questions which team members can experience. In stage one, Forming, personal relations are peculiar by strength. Team members depend on considerate and imitated behavior and look to the team leader for standpoint and guidance. The conjoint or mutual feelings that are used in forming are:  Excitement, expectancy, and uniformed optimism.  Happy to be selected as being part of the team.  Showing conditional attachment to the team.  Having doubts, concerns and uncertainty about the job or the task ahead. The team members also have questions and remarks that they expect to be answered by team developers, they are:  "Who are all these people?"  "Why Am I here?"  "Everyone is being so polite."  "This might be kind of exciting." An effective and efficient behavior is expected from the team leader. A leader should answer all the questions the team members have. A leader should also guide them through each step and verify the expected need of each member. A team will be formed efficiently. All of the teams ideas and goals will have a positive effect in the organization. The second stage, Norming, is characterized by cohesion within the team. Team members recognize each other's positions and benefits and are willing to change their preconceived ideas to achieve common consent. The common feelings that are used in Norming are:  Team members have the ability to communicate without being afraid of retaliation.


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