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Welcome to MT140 Introduction to Management
Unit 7 Seminar – Effective Teams
Agenda
• General Questions and Announcements• Introduction• Why Some Groups Fail/ Q & A• Contribution of Teams to an Organization/ Q & A• Types of Teams / Q & A• Recap• Unit Assignment Clarification• Conclusion of Seminar
Introduction• If you have ever led or been a participant in teams, you
are likely aware that sometimes teams yield successful results and sometimes they do not.
• If you haven’t yet been called upon to work on a team or to lead one, chances are that you will be in the future.
• In the modern workplace, there has been a trend toward conducting business with the use of teams. Today’s managers have the goal of ensuring that their work teams are successful.
The New Team Environment
Why Groups Sometimes Fail:
• Ineffective communication• Lack of effective chartering, visioning, and goal setting• Lack of clarity about roles• Inability to keep morale and momentum high• Decrease in productivity• Lack of trust
As a manager, what is your role in increasing the likelihood that your team will be successful?
Manager’s Role: Successful Team
• Empower team • Team building activities/outside coaching • Commitment to common purpose• Measurable performance goals• Feedback on performance• Training: technical, functional, problem-solving, decision
making and interpersonal skills• Motivation/Rewards based on performance• Publicize team successes
The Contribution of Teams to an Organization
-How can teamwork approach to work help the organization?
The Contributions of TeamsBenefiting of the organization
directly…• A team of individuals
addressing an issue can experience breakthroughs and develop fresh ideas that may not have been possible with a single individual.
• Teams can increase production, improve quality, and reduce costs.
• Teams can enhance speed and be powerful forces for innovation and change.
Contribution of Teams, (cont’d)
For the benefit of the team members directly and organization indirectly….
• The team can be a useful learning mechanism, thereby benefiting the members.
• Team members can give each other feedback; identify opportunities for growth and development; and train, coach, and mentor.
- Source: Bateman and Snell text; page. 244
Types of Teams
-Can you name some types of teams that are commonly present in the workplace?
Different Types of Organizational Teams
• Work Teams – make or do things such as manufacture, assemble, sell or provide service; part of organizational structure
• Project and Development Teams – work on long-terms projects; member have expert knowledge and judgment; disband after project completed
• Parallel Teams – operate separate from regular work structure; solutions to specific problems; i.e. task force
Different Types of Organizational Teams
• Management Teams – coordinate and give direction to subunits; integrate work among units
• Transnational Teams - work groups composed of multinational members whose activities span multiple countries
• Virtual Teams - teams that are physically dispersed and communicate electronically more than face-to-face
Different Types of Organizational Teams
• Self-Managed Teams• Empowers employees• Workers trained to do all or most of jobs in unit• No immediate supervisor• Make decisions previously made by first-line manager
Resistance: People don’t want so much responsibility, change is difficult, don’t like to evaluate performance of teammates or to fire people
Recap
• In this seminar, we’ve discussed:
-Why some groups fail-How teams contribute to organizations
-Various types of teams
Unit 7 Coursework
• Reading: Chapter 11 in the Bateman and Snell text pp. 244-256
• Discussion: Focus on traditional environment vs. team environment; What is your experience in the workplace?
• Assignment: Focus on self-managed teams; How could team approach help Sandwich Blitz?
• Quiz: 5 multiple choice questions
Thank You for Attending!