Team Building Portal
When managers or team leaders talk about team performance, one process that is considered synonymous is team building. Team building is often seen as the solution to everything that affects a team. There is a tendency to think ‘Team performance…
The Practical Use of Belbin’s Theory
A closer look at the 9 roles shows the distinctive strengths that individuals display in team situations. This affords a good framework for aligning team roles to individuals with the right strengths. As we all know, the right team mix…
Belbin Team Roles
Dr. Meredith Belbin is well known for his team roles concept. The team roles identified by Belbin are based on certain patterns of behaviour that people exhibit within teams. These patterns of behaviour can potentially have an impact on the…
Producing Effective Ideas
‘…….many great discoveries are made by a combination of an accident and the prepared mind’. Sten Grillner, Scientist, member of the Nobel Prize committee Teams employ various tools and techniques during brainstorming and problem solving. The end goal is to…
The Two Sides of Conflict
“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 &…
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…