business unit 19 p2
P2-Exlpain how to build cohesive teams that perform well.
For a team to become successful they must progress through different stages of development. Business owners will try to build a cohesive team of employees that will imperative their success, teamwork is critical to a business; so many businesses will create team building exercises which will help the teams to build trust, ease conflict, increase collaboration and build effective communication.
Building a cohesive team is important for the team to succeed and remain united in the pursuit of a common goal. If a team is highly cohesive it will:
Focus on the process
Respect everyone in the team
Assume good motives
Fully commit to the team and strategies
Create accountability within the team
‘Successful business strategies are usually carried out by an effective team with a high level of team cohesiveness. Highly cohesive teams are more committed to the goals and activities, are happy when the team succeeds and feel part of something significant, all of which increases self-esteem which in turn increases performance.’(- www.isixsigma.com)
Team building will help to build a cohesive team, the team will become closer and it will help them feel more relaxed around each other. This will help them to be more open and share the ideas, knowing they will not be judged.
Psychologist Bruce Tuckman came up with the memorable phrase ‘forming, storming, norming and performing,’ it is one of the more known team development theories and it has gone on o form the basis of many further ideas since its conception. The theory focuses on the way that a team tackles a task from the initial formation of the team all the way through to the completion of the project.
Forming
Forming is when the team is assembled and their tasks are allocated, the members will usually behave independently, and they will take time planning, collecting information and bonding. They will usually not have much sense of what they are doing.
For a team to become successful they must progress through different stages of development. Business owners will try to build a cohesive team of employees that will imperative their success, teamwork is critical to a business; so many businesses will create team building exercises which will help the teams to build trust, ease conflict, increase collaboration and build effective communication.
Building a cohesive team is important for the team to succeed and remain united in the pursuit of a common goal. If a team is highly cohesive it will:
Focus on the process
Respect everyone in the team
Assume good motives
Fully commit to the team and strategies
Create accountability within the team
‘Successful business strategies are usually carried out by an effective team with a high level of team cohesiveness. Highly cohesive teams are more committed to the goals and activities, are happy when the team succeeds and feel part of something significant, all of which increases self-esteem which in turn increases performance.’(- www.isixsigma.com)
Team building will help to build a cohesive team, the team will become closer and it will help them feel more relaxed around each other. This will help them to be more open and share the ideas, knowing they will not be judged.
Psychologist Bruce Tuckman came up with the memorable phrase ‘forming, storming, norming and performing,’ it is one of the more known team development theories and it has gone on o form the basis of many further ideas since its conception. The theory focuses on the way that a team tackles a task from the initial formation of the team all the way through to the completion of the project.
Forming
Forming is when the team is assembled and their tasks are allocated, the members will usually behave independently, and they will take time planning, collecting information and bonding. They will usually not have much sense of what they are doing.