What approaches can managers implement to enhance teamwork in their organisation?

1. Successful team building, that creates effective, focused work teams, requires attention on the part of managers to each of the following.

•Clear Expectations: Has executive leadership clearly communicated its expectations for the team’s performance and expected outcomes?

•Context: Do team members understand why they are participating on the team?

•Commitment: Do team members want to participate on the team? Do team members feel the team mission is important?

•Competence: Does the team feel that it has the appropriate people participating?

•Charter: Has the team taken its assigned area of responsibility and designed its own mission, vision and strategies to accomplish the mission.

•Control: Does the team have enough freedom and empowerment to feel the ownership necessary to accomplish its charter?

•Collaboration: Does the team understand team and group process? Do members understand the stages of group development?

•Communication: Are team members clear about the priority of their tasks?

•Consequences: Do team members feel responsible and accountable for team achievements?

•Coordination: Are teams coordinated by a central leadership team that assists the groups to obtain what they need for success?

•Cultural Change: Does the organization recognize that the team-based, collaborative, empowering, enabling organizational culture of the future is different than the traditional, hierarchical organization it may currently be?

2. For details, please read at:

http://humanresources.about.com/od/involvementteam…

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Source(s): http://humanresources.about.com/od/involvementteam… ^

teamwork gives you a lighter load as you can delegate more things get done in a shorter space of time you have others to discuss problems with more ideas on solutions as different people have different ideas teamwork builds confidence and friendships we all have strenghths and weaknesses a team can support each other you get the right man for the right job ie i love craft my coworker hates it she does the paperwork i do the messy stuff … teamwork