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Benefits Given the challenges many team members face communicating with each other, why do we bother with teams? Teams will be the primary building blocks of company performance in the organisation of the future. – Katzenbach and Smith (1994) Some of the benefits of working in teams are: synergy – a team can achieve more [...]
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Challenges and opportunities Today’s flexible work patterns present real challenges for teams. Shifts, part-time working, flexitime, home working and teleworking can make it really difficult for team members to get to know each other and have regular meetings. Teams with members working at different locations find it time-consuming and expensive to get together. Some jobs [...]
Read MoreGrowing your effective team – team flying Teams don’t just form; they have to be nurtured as they develop through four stages. This section will help you to assess how effective your team is at the moment, decide which stage it’s at and identify how you can move it forward. Today’s teams All sorts [Visual [...]
Read MoreUnit map – Roles and relationships of your coopereation team Section 1: Growing your team We start by helping you to consider how effective your team is at the moment. We explain the stages a team works through, rather like a child growing up, so you can work out what stage your team is at. [...]
Read MoreTeam flying – Where do you start with a team still flying paper aeroplanes Introduction [Visual of Red Arrows flying in formation, think bubble from person on the ground 'Wow! what a team'.] You too can get your team to ‘fly’ so it achieves far more than it ever could as a group of individuals. [...]
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