Tips For Team Building
January 22, 2009
Getting ahead in the modern, competitive and corporate world of business is a matter of integrating college degree knowledge and skills, constantly being open to new learning and technological advancements in your field, building qualifications for a higher position. But, it is as much about learning how to get along with people different from you.
This means learning ways to motivate self and others and build a healthy team spirit so different-minded people with necessary talent to get the best job done can work in harmony for promotion of company interests.
To deal with a lack of team spirit in a colleague, encourage more team-building activities even outside office hours or over weekends; be it golf or video games or even cricket and beer sessions.
For the more reserved, difficult to manage team member, engage in a mature, calm and open-ended conversation and ask him or her if there any issues about the team’s mode of working and expectations that bother him/her. This approach avoids hostility: ensure you truly listen to the colleague and turn the tables on your differences by asking for suggestions from the team member who doesn’t quite know how to fit in.
Instead of showing frustration at a meeting with team members when someone butts in with a comment, display a cool firmness and point out to the person that these interruptions are distracting. Do not over-react to team-members getting rowdy (if they are friends outside office, this can be rather embarrassing later or even hurtful for them) or not handing in assignments on time: address specific behaviour negatives in a private discussion and spread out the work-load between slack workers and a back-up (or buffer-guy) so office interest or deadlines do not suffer.
Then, evaluate how best the person can be helped, (e.g. being put along side a partner who works harder naturally or by being asked to stick to daily targets to the weekly project deadlines are met effectively etc.) and implement that.
In these ways, you will win support of team members who may not know how to correct their unprofessional behaviour and also be a guide at work who can build a productive team, even if he hasn’t been given the perfect team.
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