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“Conflict is inevitable in a team, in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict”. Susan Gerke, former manager at IBM, Leadership Development, currently President of Gerke Consulting &…
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The Support Structure of Empowered Teams
Empowerment is different from delegation. Delegation is entrusting a task to a team while still retaining all the decision making control. Empowerment, however, requires that a certain amount of responsibility and decision making capability is vested in the team. Assigning…
Team Incompatibility
Company management often put teams together to achieve a particular business objective. The performance of the team depends on the personality and interaction of the team members and on the expertise and experience of each individual. It is much like…
Problems That Face Implementation Teams
Team formations are decided by work requirements and business objectives. There are the onsite work teams that work together on a day-to-day basis and the cross-functional teams who work on specific projects. Then there is the situational task force called…
Issues in Cross Cultural Teams
Cross-cultural teams can have their fair share of problems once the novelty of interacting with new people fades. From simple issues like understanding language idioms to more complex work culture issues, there is scope fot a lot of problems. Global…
Why is Your Creativity Proving to be Ineffective?
Expertise in a particular function, a whole host of college degrees, years of experience, strategic thinking capability, and a pristine reputation for professionalism all point to a recipe for success in the corporate world. If an individual has these building…
The Starting Point of Cross Functional Team Conflict
The cross functional team has representatives from different functions. The representative of a particular function on the team is meant to work on a project with people from other functions and they are expected to blend in their collective expertise…
The First Signs of an Ineffective Team
Businesses are becoming more aware that they can suffer as a consequence of ineffective teamwork. Some teams, for example: Don’t gel together Are not cohesive in their approach Don’t see eye to eye Can’t resolve conflict or professional disagreements that…
Diagnosing Team Failure
Teams are put together to combine the knowledge and expertise of team members, this helps to gain greater strategic thinking and enhanced creativity in business solutions. When teams fail to perform as expected, an attempt is usually made to pinpoint…
Identifying Symptoms of Team Ineffectiveness
Tim runs a small business and is a long time customer of a software firm that put together his information systems. There had been some staff turnover in the software firm over the years, but the quality of the work…