Team Building Portal
Emotional intelligence is often touted as vital for a good team leader to possess, but a level of emotional intelligence is also necessary among team members for them to carry out their team roles in a cooperative and collaborative manner.…
Effective Teams
Personality Traits, Work Approaches and Thinking Styles
It would be short-sighted to finalise your office teams before you’ve had the opportunity to assess the employees on behavioural issues and personality attributes. Teams are a group of people who are put together for a common purpose but the…
Do Your Teams Have the Big-Five Factor?
There is something called the Big-Five model, a framework that is well researched and well accepted around the world by psychology experts. The Big-Five model has five key factors that define the attitudes and behaviours that decide job performance. The…
The Quest for the Effective Team Player
A term that jumps out at you from many job ads is Team Player. This is an issue that is on every interviewer’s mind when an applicant applies for a job and this question is asked not just at the…
Turning Around a Failed Team
Teamwork calls for collective effort on a task and mutual cooperation in all activities related to a task. However, the team process is not easy and most teams have a few teething problems before they begin to jell and work…
The Importance of Good Team Presentations Skills
There are many jobs and specializations where the success of a team is partly dependent on the quality of their presentation. A part of the evaluation or assessment is influenced by how the presentation was made. An effective team will…
Practical issues in getting the best out of Project Management teams
The booming Information Technology industry has spawned a new breed of specialists who collectively work under the banner of ‘project management’. Project management is today an established discipline, but it is still an evolving discipline that is striving to reach…
The Secret to Creating Winning Teams
“Effective teams have a common and meaningful purpose that provides direction, momentum and commitment for members”. Stephen P. Robbins, Author of Essentials of Organizational behaviour Creating effective teams has to be a carefully thought out systematic process. Setting up a…
Improving Productivity in Teams Through Self Improvement Programs
Self-improvement is that tiny little push that every human being needs from time to time to gear up for the rigours of the corporate world. Self-improvement helps individuals expand their horizons and make better use of their own intrinsic capabilities.…
Don’t Take the “I” Out of Teamwork
The use of the word “I” is often berated as the reason why teams lack cohesion. It is seen as an attitude conflicting with the basic principles of teamwork. It is considered the nemesis of team spirit and unity. But…