Question

For this discussion, I would like for you to identify and describe two characteristics (you believe) create and maintain strong teams within the organizational setting?

Answer 1

Teams are an essential factor for building a successful business. A constant and consistent planning is required to build a good team which understands the organization's goals, values, and visions and deliver a good performance. The team has to be cohesive and show great team spirit to deliver the required value to the organization.

Discussing two characteristics which help maintain and create a strong team:

1. Choose the right people: The choice of people is critical for creating a good team, the people should be matching the job requirements not just the education and qualification in terms of a number of year of work but they should be aligned in terms of attitude, goals and understanding the larger picture of the task. Further, they should have a broad perspective and ready to learn and adapt to changing market requirements. The employee should be apt at creating and maintaining the team cohesiveness. The inclusion of people with right skill set but wrong attitude will create a hostile working environment. For example, if you are into tracking customer behavior you need employee having an aptitude for a combination of social networking, customer service, Information technology, sales and many other factors related to it.

1. Delegate: The need to empower and delegate the authority after finding the right team and assigning them their targets and goals is essential. Empowering employees will add responsibility and accountability to their profile. The employee will feel motivated to achieve the deadlines. The manager should be careful to avoid micromanaging the activities. The employee should be allowed a freestyle of operation within the identified role. The role of the manager is to support the team, remove obstacles from their paths, grant them access where required and help maximize their results.

The other characteristics which can support a strong team are creating a teamwork, monitoring the progress of the team and then celebrating the team success together. These characteristics will go a long way to giving you the desired results and maximizing employee performance.