The importance of teamwork should lead to creating high-performance teams. Although we must rely on different criteria to say that a team is located in the high performance zone.
Goals:
- Teaming up is being able to communicate with each person. We can only communicate with another person when we are interested in knowing them better and share information, efforts, successes and hopes. There are ways of acting and ways of playing within the team that are very harmful. Since there are setbacks, which inevitably lead to the life of any team, we can maintain a positive attitude that will bring us long-term benefits We can learn certain specific skills that generally help keep high-performance teams together Learn to recognize situations that require team behavior rather than group behavior.
Importance of Teamwork Within the Organization.
Its implementation and challenges to overcome:
Currently the world revolves around the economy and globalization is a reality, innovation and constant changes especially in the fields of technology and information technology make changes faster, therefore, it is necessary to have more flexible organizations to adapt and achieve the desired success.
Today's organizations are transforming and changing, they are less hierarchical and more participatory compared to the previous ones, since they have discovered the phenomenon of synergy since more than individual effort can be achieved as a team.
One of the current trends is to create team-based organizations, where the organizational structure is changed from a "pyramid" to a flat or network type.
This new structure has as a background simple teamwork up to the so-called self-directed teams.
“When you are really part of a team, you have to give without expecting to receive anything in return. The simple fact of belonging to the team is enough for your own growth »
High Performance Teams
As human beings that we are, we always feel the need to be recognized by others, to feel useful and appreciated as well.
That is why it is a success to be able to work as a team, because in addition to earning our salary we have the opportunity to enrich ourselves as people.
Could there be something more important than enjoying while we work?
Possibly the time we dedicate to work represents 60% of our active time, of our lives…
Therefore, it is essential to create an ideal work environment if we want to achieve high productivity goals, but without forgetting that it also makes us happier.
There is a proportional relationship between the productivity of a team and the comfort of each and every one of its members.
A group of professionals can share the same space without actually working as a team.
So that:
- There is a mutual need to share certain skills and knowledge. The members of a team complement each other in their professional profiles. But also a very important thing is that they must have a "relationship of trust", not necessarily one of friendship, that allows them to delegate in the competence of the partner, and divide his work knowing that the "other" will do his part.
The Basic Elements That Make Up a Team Would Be:
- The type of professional that integrates it and the type of activity carried out. The cohesion or union between its members. Productivity and work capacity. The creativity and responsibility that the team is capable of developing. The external requirements that come to them. The support and the means available to face these requirements.
Rarely does a high-performance team know that it is. Although we can base ourselves on different criteria to affirm that a team is located in the high performance zone:
- It responds to productivity requirements with fewer human or material resources than other similar teams. The group's engine is the majority of its members: there are hardly any people gravitating on the periphery, or clearly rejected for their lack of technical or human quality. The team improves existing procedures in order to obtain the same results with less effort. It is also characterized by inventing new procedures, in a process of permanent change. Therefore, it acquires the routine of innovation.
You are probably currently working on a team. Your team is described by three key aspects:
- The moment the team is living: Is it lively, wanting to progress, with new projects and high creativity? Or, on the contrary, is it in "regression"? Regarding the internal dynamics of the team: Is it a team that is just starting out or, on the contrary, is it in its maturity stage? Are the roles within the team well distributed? The basic orientation of the team: Is the team oriented towards the achievement of personal benefits, or rather towards obtaining products or objectives?
Expanding Equipment.
An expanding team has many external requirements but also has sufficient means to meet them. Its members are united by the need for simple survival, otherwise they would not be able to rise to the occasion.
Generally people are excited by the expectation of benefits, but what happens when this expectation does not exist?
In these cases the motivation is based on fear of bosses (and / or dismissal), because prestige has to be maintained or acquired, or because they simply think that their effort will be rewarded in the near future.
In expanding teams, the group leader learns to delegate almost by force and its different members can develop their capacities with a wide margin of maneuver and creativity.
This, although it seems an advantage, is also a disadvantage, since in many cases it causes lack of coordination in activities, and in many cases duplicates efforts.
