Why teams dont work
- 1. Why Teams Don’t work
- 2. Team Members • Shruthi Sankari • Satyendra Nath Saha • Sreekesh • Aiswarya • Kabillan • Prasanna Hari
- 3. TEAM Definition: A team is a collection of accomplished people coming together for a common goal that needs completion.
- 4. ASPECTS OF A TEAM • The leader acts as a facilitator. • The members have active participation in the discussions and eventual outcome. • The team members decides on the disbursement of work assignments
- 5. ASPECTS OF A TEAM The leader acts as a facilitator. The members have active participation in the discussions and eventual outcome. The team members decides on the disbursement of work assignments
- 6. COMMON PERCEPTION ABOUT TEAMS • Teams are sacrosanct • Working in teams makes us creative and productive • Jobs can be easily done in a team
- 7. AS J RICHARD HACKMAN SAYS.. • Teams may be the worst option for tackling a challenging task • Research shows that team members don’t even agree what the team is supposed to be doing • Problem of coordination and competition can damage team performance. • Team needs to be real(bounded) for becoming successful
- 8. THE IDEA IN PRACTICE • Be ruthless about membership • Be selective in choosing team members • (CFO example)
- 9. What are some common fallacies about teams ? • Compelling direction – no right way – Team leader – Team (Example : board of directors) – Organisation (outside a team) • Setting a Direction is Emotion Demanding – Authoritative-leader – Affects leader and receiving end • Emotionally mature Leader – They know what to do ; How to do – High Risk – Intense resistance may lead to his/her job at risk
- 11. What are some common fallacies about team? Fallacy False Appearance Deception
- 12. Fallacy I The cause and effect is the reverse of what most people Believe The mood of the orchestra members after a performance says more about how well they did than the mood beforehand.
- 14. Fallacy III A team does not become stale in due course of time but rather that it doesn’t have chance to settle in.
- 15. Newness a Bad Thing ??? The Answer is Yes It is rather bad !!! People must have the Chance to learn through experience how to best operate as a team before they can be effective as a team. The following facts say why :- New Crews always function way worse than the old ones because of no prior experience working with each other.
- 16. Newness a Bad Thing ??? (Cont’d) • It was Found that 73% of incidents occurred on a crew’s first day of flying together and 44% of these took place on a crew’s very first flight. • It was also found that fatigued crews who had previously flew together made only half as many errors as crews composed of rested crews who had not flown together before .
- 17. Why Airlines Don’t stick to the same crews ??? • It isn’t efficient from a financial point of view. • Due to non availability of surplus pilots , each pilot may have to work with 2 or 3 aircrafts and crew in a single day itself. So it is not at all feasible for Airlines to stick with same crews
- 18. How to build a team Richard Hackman’s five condition Teams must be real Teams need a compelling direction Teams need enabling structures Teams need a supportive organization Teams need expert coaching.
- 19. Virtual team A virtual team (also known as a geographically dispersed team, distributed team, or remote team) is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology.
- 21. How to keep teams from becoming complacent..?? • To have a deviant who can help the team by challenging the tendency to want too much homogeneity, which can stifle creativity and learning. • Deviants are the source of great innovations. • Deviants are the individuals who are willing to say the thing that nobody else is willing to articulate. • When you lose the deviant the team can become mediocre.
- 22. How can a leader make the team work effective..? • By having a good relationship with the group and to make them understand the group what is expected and enforced. • To improve the chances of a team and make the working special. • Best team leader makes constant improvising as they go along. • Leader brings to the task his or her ow strengths and weaknesses.