In: Operations Management
Describe how you will get alignment within your work team considering all of the different potential drivers and definitions of success? How will you actively seek to understand?
Following five factors help in building a great team relationship and helpful are equally important of personal and team career success:
Communication: Communication is the key driver of team success in any organization. The ability to communicate without barriers, proficiency, fluently, persuasive and optimism in communication helps us to develop good relations with the team members. The language accent, contextual meaning and diversity in a team poses such challenges when a message conveyed can be interpreted differently by different team members. To be good team member, it is important to ensure the correct message interpreted and expressed to the team by including the examples, elaborating the critical points and topics, discussing with the team about their understanding on the subject. In case of any misalignment in understanding, it should be conveyed with politeness and professionally.
Trust: A good team is a team which trust its leader and teammates like its own family. No matter what you are into a leadership role or part of a team, it is important to understand that the environment of trust-building is one of the first exercises a person should initiate when involved in a team. The trust among the teammates builds a confident team. You don’t have to be Yesman in the team but coveying the shortcomings, team defects and taking the responsibility of your work makes a team player and a person with integrity of his work.
Recognition: Recognition of the efforts are part of the motivation and incentives theory. A person will feel motivated and happy when his/her efforts are recognized and rewarded. It provides a sense of importance to the team members for their work in the team. Without incentives and recognitions, the team members’ productivity suffers without any force of encouragement to them. Therefore, not only team leaders but team members should also know how much of their team is putting their efforts in order to succeed.
Leadership: Leadership is the position that drives the team towards success and achievements. Without a good leader, the productivity of the whole team is affected. A leader encourages and motivates his/her team, defines goals and milestones, arrange resources, ensure team compatibility, puts talent and skills on work efficiently. While a leadership role is not only limited to a team level but it can be also applied on a personal level. It doesn’t matter if you are yet a team leader or not, you can achieve greater work efficiency by applying leaders approach on your own work for motivation, discipline, punctuality, ownership of your work, and bringing good vibes into the team.
Training: Training is required for upgrading the knowledge, work efficiency and capabilities of working in a team environment. Training can be for interpersonal skills or it could be for learning any technical skills. With the change in work and responsibilities, we need to improve our knowledge and skills for the organization’s benefit and personal development. The team can benefit by leveraging the new skills and their implementation in upcoming projects requirement.