Importance and Types of Work Teams
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WORK
EN
TEAM
Mg. María Silvia Villa Santillán
It is the ability to participate actively in the
pursuit of a common goal subordinating the
personal interests to the team's objectives.
WORK Robbins (1999) defines a set of
people who interact and are
interdependent, and have come together to
EN achieve specific goals
TEAM
Koontz & Weihrich (1998) conceptualize
the team as a small number of people with
skills that complement each other committed
with a common goal, a series of objectives of
performance and a work method of which they are
jointly responsible.
Importance of teamwork in a
company
● The importance of teamwork arises from the consideration that the more
people are engaged in carrying out an activity, there are more and better
results obtained.
● The objective ofteamworkIt is to bring together a group of people with abilities, ideas.
and similar skills in order to perform tasks more quickly to obtain
better results.
● Create synergyThe most significant impact of a team is in the fact of achieving
more things united than individually.
● Grantempowermentto each of the members
● Promotes more flexible working structures andwith less hierarchy.
● Boost themultidisciplinary work
● Encouragesresponsibility and responsivenessto the change
● Promotes the sense ofachievement, equity, and friendship.
The 5Cs of teamwork
COMMUNICATION COORDINATION
01 Communicate to the utmost 02 Establish a leader in each
number of possible ways work team
COMPLEMENTARY
TRUST
AGE
03 They are knowledge and 04 It emotionally connects everything.
the team. Know what it will do
skills of each member
a good job
as to his performance
It focuses on the motivational level.
05 COMMITMENT
When a person feels
an intrinsic motivation
What types of work teams exist?
1. Functional work teams: they are composed of members of the company from various
vertical levels. This type of work team has a leader or person in charge of supervising and
guarantee the fulfillment of all tasks.
2. Multifunctional work teams: they involve people with diverse abilities, as well as
experts in various fields. Each team member brings a unique perspective to the group and has
a distribution of tasks that is quite fair and equitable.
3. Informal teams: they do not have a structure or formality. They can be classified into groups.
informal interests and groups of friends.
4. Formal work teams: they are formed from the legitimate power of the organization. They have
a subcategory: of command and of task. The former report progress to a certain boss,
while those of tasks conclude a work activity.
5. Autonomous work teams: These individuals have the capacity to make decisions.
functional, they have a leader in communication with everyone
What types of work teams exist?
6. Problem-solving teams: this is one of the types of teams
Work organized sporadically: only when there is a problem to solve.
7. Self-directed teams: they have a horizontal leadership structure. These people
They work on projects. They have the following characteristics: Learning. Autonomy.
Trust. Communication
8. Leadership teams: teams come together in order to achieve an organizational purpose.
9. Equipos según su funcionalidad:Existen dos tipos:Los ejecutivosse encargan de encontrar
an effective solution to the problems. The advisory ones have the role of recommending the
implementation of some solution or change
10. Concentric teams are structured based on: peripheral groups that
is in charge of being responsible for the entire project. Likewise, the core team is
composed of high-level representatives from all the relevant areas.
Stages in the formation of work teams
1. Training. Here are the team members
they are just starting to get to know each other.
2. Conflict. This is when the members of
team learns to work together.
3. Normalization. People feel more
comfortable working together.
4. Performance. At this stage, the team has achieved
a cohesion and everyone works together achieving their
maximum potential.
5. Completion or dissolution. After that
concludes a project or when a team
dissolves, the people who have collaborated together
they will go through a short period of mourning.
8 basic roles in a work team
● The team leader
Coordinates everyone's efforts, is disciplined, focused, and balanced. Speaks,
but above all, he/she is able to listen to others.
● 2. The director of the tasks
In the event that the leader is absent, he will assume that role. His great added value is his
impulse, their passion for work, and their ability to stimulate actions.
● The creative
It is the source of original ideas and proposals. It is a member of the group.
that needs to be expressed or else it is very likely to disconnect and isolate.
● The evaluator
He is a more analytical person than the creative one. He tends to be less
committed, is a bit in the shadows, but is very necessary for the
quality control. He is a trustworthy person but can seem cold.
8 basic roles to define in a work team
● 5. The Resource Generator
He is the most extroverted member of the group, the most sociable, the one who contributes.
contacts and developments; but he is not a person with great initiative and that's why
needs the team.
● 6- The practical
He is the one who transforms ideas into work completion. He is methodical, he is
Efficient, he is not a great director, but he is a great manager.
● The motivator
He is the 'soul' of the team, the one who keeps the group united, supports the others,
listens to them, instills courage in the team; is a person who does not stand out much
when it is, but it is very noticeable when it is not.
● The auctioneer
In every work team there should be someone who is responsible for
the times, the objectives; it must carry out continuous monitoring and
checking details; he is an important member but is not usually very
popular.
How to improve teamwork?
Make it clear what the common goal is.
2. Having all the solutions
technological
3. Working in the cloud
4. Promote personal initiative
5. Build trust, communicate and promote the
belonging to the group
Main advantages of working
in a team
Increase the Improve the
productivity capabilities and the
attitude of each
It facilitates the
individual in the
company
organization
TEAMWORK: advantages and common roles
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Keys to high-performance teams, by César Piqueras
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Team coaching for high performance
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