Question

Why is encouraging participation in the planning, decision-making and operational aspects of the team’s work important for developing team cohesion and what role does feedback play in doing this?

Teams can actually work against each other if they are not managed well. List at least four tactics that will help the teams within an organisation work cohesively

Answer 1

Encouraging planning , decision making and operational aspects helps in bringing more wider perspective of the same problem and can create a win-win situation , It avoids conflicts and ensure colloborative effort in each and every aspects of it.This create a team effort and sharing knowledge and experience that can significantly reduce the risk involved and increasing the success rate in the areas of planning, decision making and the opertational practices etc. More active participation reduces conflicts in taking decision by aligning to the proper requirements.

The major four tactics:

• People engagement:- Apart from the assigned tasks make people to engage more on the casual activities like team building exercices, team gathering, hangout etc. This helps in breaking the ice between them, taking away the ego between them and make them to work together as a team through creating a personal relationship between members.
• Monitoring and controlling_:- This helps in reducing the conflict level between team members by controlling the level of friction and addressing their concern through formal and informal ways . The conflict resolution team can actively involved in such gap and creating a healthy environment for discusssions and suggestions.
• Colloborative system:- Ensure significant role is given for all team members which makes them feel confident. Make them comfortable through active communication system which can focus on the pipileine disucssions, growth of the project, members concerns etc.
• Elimination of gender bias and promote diversity:- Provide sufficient training and development programs for all team members which could make them to get proper exposure with team members from different ethnicity and educational background etc. Promote diversity and reduce gender bias can help the team to create a right mix which is capable of meeting and overcoming any sort of challenges. This will help them to enhance their reslience and finding solutions by themself by reducing the conflict level and working for a common objective together.