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Teamwork and Team Performance

Teamwork and Team Performance. The Fab Four Chaz Tyler, Laura Gomez, Susan Su, James Phan. Teams and Teamwork. The Dream Team. A team has several defining characteristics: Small group of individuals. Individuals provide different complimentary skills Work actively together

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Teamwork and Team Performance

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  1. Teamwork and Team Performance The Fab Four Chaz Tyler, Laura Gomez, Susan Su, James Phan

  2. Teams and Teamwork

  3. The Dream Team • A team has several defining characteristics: • Small group of individuals. • Individuals provide different complimentary skills • Work actively together • Common Purpose • Collectively Accountable

  4. Types of Teams • There are three basic forms/functions of teams: • Teams that recommend things • Teams that run things • Teams that make things or do things

  5. Recommend Things • Characteristics for Teams that Recommend Things: • Specific Problems • Recommend specific solutions • Completion Date • Generally, disband once problem/project has been resolved

  6. Run Things • Characteristics for Teams that Run Things: • Responsibility to lead others • Come in many different forms • Complex Problems/ Uncertain situations • Creating Strategies • Supporting Others • Create Goals, Values, and Purpose

  7. Make or Do Things • Characteristics for teams that Make or Do Things: • Perform ongoing tasks • Long Term Relationships • Strong Operating System • High demands

  8. The Nature of Teamwork • Teamwork- • Actively working together • Utilize respective skills • Achieve a common goal. • Team members show commitment through: • Belief in the TEAM • Being motivated • Listening • Responding constructively "One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team" - Kareem Abdul Jabbar

  9. The Nature of Teamwork • Successful teams possess a wide variety of skills: • Technical • Problem- Solving • Decision Making • Teams instill standards by: • Setting specific goals • Creating strong values • Providing a sense of purpose

  10. Diversity & Team Performance • Benefits of Homogeneous Teams: • Quickly build relationships • Improved communication • Less conflict • Negatives of Homogeneous Teams: • Limited ideas • Less creativity • Biased • Ethnocentric

  11. Diversity & Team Performance • Benefits of Heterogeneous Teams: • More information • Unique Perspectives • Variety of skills and talents • Creativity • Negatives of Heterogeneous Teams: • Slow startup • Relationship Building • Interpersonal conflicts

  12. Team Building Cleveland Cavaliers in team huddle

  13. Definition of Team Building • A collaborative way to gather and analyze data to improve teamwork • Sequence of planned activities • Helps deal with teamwork difficulties or prevent them The USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team after their win over Canadian National Team (2008)

  14. Why They Need to Work Hard • Teamwork does not happen naturally • Hard work is essential • In NBA, it is crucial for managers and coaches to focus on teamwork at very beginning The Heat after beating the Cavaliers 118 to 90 in Dec. 2010

  15. Team Building in the NBA • Coaches and managers focus on the players to get them to work together more efficiently • Team building prevents • The falling out of teams • The stress that comes with failures Miami Heat’s General Manager Pat Riley, Head Coach Erik Speolstra, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh and Owner MikeyArison

  16. Team Building in the NBA • Teams getting together • Making plays • Practices • Staying productive • Encouraging each other Play by Boston Celtics

  17. Steps of Team Building • Step 1: Problem or opportunity in team effectiveness • Step 2: Data gather and analysis • Step 3: Plan for team improvement • Step 4: Actions to improve team functions • Step 5: Evaluation of results • In NBA, teams experience this every season

  18. Aspects of Team Building • The team building process is highly collaborative • Participation is necessary • In NBA, practice is like a real game • Team building is data based • Data is usually gathered during team practices

  19. Approaches to Team Building • As stated before: • Practice in crucial in NBA • Team members must fully commit • Group development must be constantly monitored • Day-to-day changes must be made to ensure effectiveness

  20. Improving Team Processes Lakers during team practice

  21. Entry of New Members Difficult: • Members first get together in new group or team • When new member joins existing one New members may worry about: • Participation- “Will I be allowed to participate?” • Goals- “Do I share same goals as others?” • Control- “How close do people get?” • Relationships- “Are conflicts likely to be upsetting?”

  22. The Heat LebronJames L.A. Clippers Blake Griffin

  23. Task and Maintenance Leadership • Distributed leadership • sharing of responsibilities for contributions that move a group forward • Task activities • various things members do that directly contribute to the performance of important group tasks • Maintenance activities • support the social and interpersonal relationships among group members

  24. For example: • Greg Popovich (Coach in San Antonio Spurs) • NBA Championship is “4” • Playoff Appearances is “13” • Division Titles is “7”

  25. Task activities • Example: New York Knicks • Exchange some better players • Research and understand competitive team • Know shortcoming and advantages • Get higher % to win • Maintenance activities • Support relationships needed • Work well together • Bad Example: Cavaliers • Lebron James left • From being one of the NBA's elite teams, to a bottom feeder

  26. Teams in the High Performance Workplace Lakers working together to stop Lebron from scoring

  27. Teams in the High-Performance workplace • Organizations look for creative ways of using teams to solve their own problem • This means: -no supervisor -no executives -title No individual is going to have the best idea, the best idea comes from the collective intelligence from a team.

  28. What are the outcomes of Problem Solving Teams • Increase productivity • Learn to solve problems without hierarchy • Better satisfy customers • Improve the quality of work life

  29. Problem Solving Teams Members of employee involvement teams meet regularly to examine work related problems and opportunities. In the NBA: -importance of teamwork = Win -Chicago is a team that has showed this type of behavior -”Team only meeting” Outcome: To find out the problem and solve

  30. Cross-Functional Teams • Brings together persons from different functions to work on a common task. • Motivated to Achieve a common goal • Recruiting different assets • Knowing your role(how to get the best outcome from your team) • Different type of skills put together • Functional silos problem

  31. Virtual teams? • Convenes and operates with members linked together via networked computers and information technologies • Face-to-face through electronic communication • Cost effective(flying) • Increase Speed

  32. Self-Managing Teams • Self-directed work, teams tend to make their own decisions needed to manage themselves. • Chicago star Derrick Rose • Runs the team when on the court • Sees what the defense gives him and take control

  33. Conclusion • Teams and teamwork • Team building • Improving team processes • Teams in the high-performance workplace

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