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Workplace Team: Teamwork-People Who Cooperate With Their Group or Organization Using Their Own

- A workplace Team means group of employees Who are working together on either a temporary or A permanent basis to achieve a common objective

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Workplace Team: Teamwork-People Who Cooperate With Their Group or Organization Using Their Own

- A workplace Team means group of employees Who are working together on either a temporary or A permanent basis to achieve a common objective

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WORKPLACE TEAM

- A workplace Team means group of employees Who are working together on either a temporary or A permanent
basis to achieve a common objective
Teamwork- People who cooperate with their group or organization using their own
-Individual skills
- constructive feedback
6 Examples of Team work
1. Provide One-on-One Feedback - When employees work on projects, your co-workers must provide their own
opinion, advise and tip in your work or project.

2. Participate in Brainstorming Meetings - From time-time, companies schedule brainstorming meetings to get
creative ideas flowing. Employees put ideas on the table for everything from product development or to ideas
for upcoming promotional campaigns. By working as a team, everyone gets to add input, there are a wide range
of creative solutions to try and participants feel united, as they work toward a common goal.

3. Prepare for Presentation - You will present your work by the help of your co-workers to gather sales figures
,solicit Good feedback and testimonial of costumers to meet your clients satisfaction .

4. Act As Mentor - Mentoring or help your new co-workers to adjusted to their new work help them to familiarize
.The companies processes and procedures support them to achieve their goal and success at company.

5. Swap Schedules or Clients - A fellow employee may switch shifts to give an employee the time he needs away
from the office

6. Complete Community Service - Performing service projects with your co-employees give time to volunteer or to
help at homeless shelters .
Another example is Team building give time to relax your self.

TEAM COMPOSITION
- refers to the overall mix of characteristics among people in a team, which is a unit of two or more individuals
who interact interdependently to achieve a common objective.
- This is usually Homogenous ( things that are all similar kind ) OR Heterogenous ( not similar or different
characters) It’s a individual attributes ( skill experience and ability. )

Diversity in the workplace

ADVANTAGE OF DIVERSITY OF WORKPLACE


1. Increased creativity- Every person has a goal. A person can increased their creativity just to make it better they
will discover something on their creativity .
2. Increased adaptability - It means you have to quickly adapt the new situations. It will develop a new process of
people with the different ideas to collaborate and work together.
3. Melting Pot of ideas - Not all people can think exactly the same you can take down notes all the ideas that
comes from your mind and combined it to have a perfect presentation
4. Increased productivity - Globalization and internalization are two of the gifts that workforce diversity brings to
the table, why. Put them together in one place and what you get is increased productivity
5. Increased range of services - A diverse collection of people with different experiences, skills, cultural
understanding, languages and other differences enables a company to provide customers services on a global
basis.
DISADVANTAGES OF DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE
1. Communication Issues - Effective communication is a driving factor for success. It also help if you know How to
speak different languages it’s a big advantage.
2. Lack of freedom of speech - People can’t freely state their opinions or tell stories whenever they want for fear
of being judged as discriminating. So it’s not only effective communication that is a disadvantage in a diverse
workplace, but also freedom of speech.
3. Increased cost of training - Apart from the usual training, an organization must invest in seminars, programs and
lectures designed to promote diversity in the workplace training w/out pay and training w/out hands out.
4. Integration issues - Even in a non-diverse workplace exclusive social groups or cliques naturally happens, more
so in a diverse workforce
5. Increased competition - Competition in the workplace is good as it can drive success and higher productivity.
Other employees do not accept other culture and beliefs and that’s Starts competition Other employees
prepare to have a than to have a collaborative team
6. Breeds disrespect - The same people who don’t accept other cultures this shows disrespect and indifference .
And the tension about the communication in the workplace

EFFECTIVE WORKPLACE TEAMS


A team is an important, Working together to achieve and to accomplish your goal

1- Begin With the Right People


Know what you are looking for. When recruiting to your team, look for candidates who match your organizational
culture. Look for the person you can trust with and the person who can help your organization
2- Be SMART About Goal-Setting
Without goals, teams are aimless. Prepare your team for success with a clear objective, and be sure to attach a value to
the goal. Without seeing the value in the work they are doing, a team will lack the motivation to succeed. In goal-setting
make your goal SMART:

• Specific: Your goal must be well-defined so that the team's direction is clear. Ask: Where do we want to end up?
What steps will we need to take to get here?
• Measurable: In order to measure their degree of success, a team needs precise objectives Be specific. Its
achievable
• Attainable: Be realistic. Aim too high set a goals for your team
• Relevant: Goals should be aligned with your vision of success, and relevant to the direction you want your team
to take.
• Time-Bound: Success will come that much quicker if you have a deadline.

3- Define Roles Clearly


You should have a valuable roles for your teams clearly defines your roles
To help other to set their own goals to achieve and accomplish
Clear roles help to
Identify knowledge, skill and capability needed
Determine what resources and strategies are required for success and determines who will be sharing these
• Eliminate confusion, establish boundaries, and reduce overlap
• Identify any weakness that threatens efficiency and any need for training, support or reassignment
• The most important role is become a team leader who will value their ideas and opinions and who can influence
the team.
4- Build an Atmosphere of Cooperation
Efficient teams co-operate. In this environment will be measure by their contribution to achievement , team goal is very
important in every team member to promote co-operation. Consider the following:
• Team charter: A charter defines how work will be done. It is created by the team, for the team. All members
should be expected to contribute. The team charter addresses how work will be done. It deals with topics
such as:
• Purpose
• Duration and Time Commitment
• Scope Stages of development
• Resources
• Planning
• Reporting relationships
• Communication: This is the most important factor in successful teamwork. Where they can share their
information and it will help to express also your own opinion in the team. Make sure that your meetings are
productive. Have everyone attend who needs to attend. Have everyone participate on some level. Appoint
someone to run the meeting and keep everyone on schedule

• Consensus decision-making: This is a process of coming to agreement that is inclusive, participatory, and
collaborative. Everybody invests in the outcome, and is more likely to commit to the decision made.

• Creative problem-solving: When major problems arise, they can be solved more effectively by teams who work
on finding a solution together. Ideas and opinions of all members are welcome In a collaborative environment,
individual team members can identify problems and initiate the process of finding a solution Employees are
given the freedom and authority they need to make necessary decisions.

• Feedback: open for discussion for the members who have a concerns and comments to make changes

• Conflict resolution: learning to work together learning to contribute in a teams to success have an encourage to
open an opinion, feedback and concerns for the success of the team Be responsive.

• Team-building: the action where the company create an event to help their employee to increase motivation
and cooperation

5- Define Expectations - This basically the ‘Rules of Engagement’ for team work. Be clear about their contributions
are expected by individual member.

Team expectations should be concrete and directly related to the achievement of team goals. They define how a
team will work to achieve their goals.
Expect team members to:
• Contribute (do their work)
• Communicate with each other
• Cooperate (support each other)
• Problem solve
• Be respectful of other team members
Uphold organizational values
6- Recognize Good Works
Effective team member will value their team in organization give them rewards for their efforts and to motivate them to
help in the organization and to pursue to achieve their goals.
Learn what keeps your team members motivated. You might consider the following:
• Profit-Sharing
• Skills development
• Opportunity Increased autonomy, empowerment
• Increased flexibility

Productive Work Teams

Think about all the people that you come into contact with in your work life: colleagues, board members and other
volunteers, donors, clients, the general public and so on. With this large network of people connected to your
organization, learning how to work well together is vital.

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