Tips for Team Building

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Tip 1:

• Form teams to solve real work issues and improve real work processes
  
  
• The manager should provide the team with teamwork training beforehand on systematic methods of team work.
  
  
• The team should focus on accomplishing the project, not on how to work together as a team.

Tip 2:

• Hold departmental meetings to review projects and progress
  
  
• It is the manager's responsibility to recognize when a group is not developing a healthy relationship.
  
  
• Departmental meetings give the manager the opportunity to examine the team's progress.
  
  
• If a team is falling behind, the manager should look to see if the team has personality issues or difficulties in agreeing on the best approach for the assignment

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Tip 3:

• Build fun and shared experiences into the organization's agenda
  
  
• The manager should help the team think as a unit within a fun work environment so that everyone on the team feels involved and appreciated.
  
  
• For example, management could sponsor company dinners or business trips to sporting events or team retreats.

Tip 4:

• Use icebreakers and time-limited fun team-building exercises
  
  
• The manager should use icebreakers and group activities at the beginning of meetings to promote interaction and camaraderie among team members.
  
• The bottom line is that icebreakers help associates to get to know each other on a more personal basis.

Tip 5:

• Celebrate group successes publicly
  
  
• The manager should recognize the group as a whole for their accomplishments, not just individuals within the group.
  
  
• Constructive group praise is always the best policy.