Team Dynamics
Teams are a group of committed, motivated associates working collectively and interdependently to share resources, skills, talents, and knowledge in a coordinated pursuit of a common objective producing high quality results. Teams are the basic building block of an organization and are responsible for generating ideas, suggestions for improvement and better ways of doing work. Effective teams increase the success of any entity.
Team members can be most effective when they know what is expected of them and how it relates to what others on the team are doing. It is important for the team to understand the team’s charter and objectives. Open and honest communication is facilitated by knowing and understanding the ground rules. Everyone on the team has something of value to contribute. The most effective teams allow and require balanced participation. Every team should develop trust and honesty in communication with no hidden agendas. As teams become more empowered, team dynamics change, along with the roles of team members and team leaders.
The facilitator or leader must manage team plans, orchestrate team activities, provide visibility of progress, resolve issues, and mediate conflicts. It is important for the leader to take time to clearly identify a problem before making decisions about how to solve it. They should engage all team members in the process of collecting information and discussing the problem from various viewpoints weighing out the pros and cons of all decisions. A good facilitator will run effective meetings with a clear agenda with time limits on a discussion and delegating team action plans.
The recorder’s job is to take notes at meetings as well as documenting and assigning members to any action duties, with the facilitators’ authority, then distribute them to each team member for reference. The recorder must be extremely attentive to detail and be able to grasp the most important points of a meeting without...
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