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Discussion 1

Team productivity can be achieved by considering the following techniques: First and foremost, thing is to consider the goals that need to be achieved by the team members and set the goals according to their knowledge and skill level. Then the team leader has to clarify the roles and responsibilities of each team member. Then team leader has to review their performance and give them the feedback where they need to improve. Based on the performance levels the tasks have to be communicated in such a way that it increases the productivity. Review meetings have to be conducted to measure the things how effectively they are being achieved. This process has been continued all the time and the improvements needs to be added to day to day activities to get better productivity. Teamwork is nothing but group of people using all their skills to get one target goal to be achieved effectively. This can be achieved through the following they are such as: communication plays one of the key roles in team works because better communication will get the things work in a better way. There should be open forum to express their ideas and things to share, so that fresh ideas will come up and there can be better way to achieve things. Commitment is another thing that needs to be considered because every person should have the same level of commitment because it shouldn’t affect the group productivity at the end. Reliable is another key aspect that should exist in the team to have goals to be achieved on time (Correia, A. P. 2019). First thing needed in the teamwork is a strong leadership skill, if there is a strong leader only the tea can be led effectively without any discrepancies and that will not affect the performance in any way. Building strong communication and considering the teamwork and their performance that needs to be added to the common goal. The work done by team members need to be recognized and rewarded according to their level of performance. They should be provided with the feedback and should receive the feedback from them to get things better. Teamwork should be made as a part of the organization culture to get better productivity. As a manager, it is the responsibility of him to take a look at the performance of each individual how did they perform their individual tasks to achieve the common goal collectively. For that he needs to consider the individual tasks assigned to them and review them up to what level they are being achieved and performed. Based on this analysis if the task is achieved proactively and the performance is at the good level then that needs to be rewarded accordingly and the suggestions has to be given for further productivity. If their performance levels are not up to the mark then the feedback has to be given and need to check whether they have any barriers to achieve the tasks and sort out a way to clear those barriers (Correia, A. P. 2019).

Discussion 2

Team Performance: As a manager, we need to see the overall performance of the team, at the same time we need to track the performance of each member of the team, as we need the quality product at the end of the day and this need to be completed within the defined or promised date, to achieve this we need the team to work together, rather than working as an individual, when every member in the team need to contribute to the development as per their experience and expectation set by the organization, in the process sometime other members may need to help each other if they are not able to accomplish the task, we need to see the overall performance of the team on both the successful or failure. To measure the performance of the team the organization needs to define the goals to the team and its members, provide them the clarity and clear vision to the team, let us be a transparent action on every act, frequent one on one meeting with the members, and team, more importantly, implement the culture in the team if this is in place the performance of the team will increase. (Adler. 2019).

Productivity: Any team, which may be of two-member or hundred is not an easy job, each employee will have their interests and also when the team size grows the groups will increase, in this situation it will be difficult to get the best productivity from the team, but there are ways to get the work is done and gets the best productivity to form the team, that gives the ownership to each employee and make them responsible to accomplish their task, it may be of simple task let them manage that by interacting with the team, example if you have the team of five-member, let each member send the status report of the team by end of the day, that is each member is responsible for one day and they are responsible if there is any wrong data or not share the report, this creates the impact and ownership among the team and will increase productivity. (Kashyap. 2017).

Rewarding Team: Rewarding the teams are very important, this creates a strong team and they will be get motivated to perfume in their projects, and more importantly the reward should be in timely manner, there won’t be any value if they reward after a few months of accomplishing the task, the immediate reward will not only make the team perform better, also other teams will try to adopt the ways and we can expect the good progress in the organization, we cannot expect every performance need to be rewarded with monetary benefit, there are many ways to reward them, like sending an appreciation email to the team, or make the CEO to send the appreciation email to the team and keeping all the management in the cc list, or publishing their achievement in the organizational magazine or putting the name in noticeboard, or providing small momentous to the team and even with the gift vouchers, there are many ways to reward the team, they can choose the appropriate mode based on size and achievement. (Sciacovelli. 2018).

Discussion 3

Team productivity is about members of the organization or a project group. As long as they do communicate and coordinate with each other and work together on common goals will results in great team productivity (Bellingham, 2001). It also means that every member of the group or an organization is committed and contributed their efforts in delivering quality work within an acceptable amount of time. As a result, increased customer satisfaction will be achieved. Being a manager, I would not just consider the final product delivered to the team to measure the team's productivity. As discussed earlier that the team productivity is all about the organization members. There are certain metrics that I will consider for measuring the team’s productivity which includes – Determining the (planned-to-done ratios) or percentage of the jobs completed within the given time. These insights from measuring the planned ratios will provide appropriate insights about the team's capability and their potential for productivity. If the team accomplished only a few jobs than actually assigned, then the team is not effective and not as skilled as expected. Measuring the cycle times is essential to optimize the team’s productivity, in which I will measure whether the team completed the assigned task within the given time or not. Some of the interpersonal elements will consider for measuring the team's productivity include active participation, collaboration, active listening, helpfulness, and the presence of team members in team meetings will ensure the success of the project. These interpersonal elements of each member of the team are necessary to translate into better productivity, and they help in measuring the effectiveness and motivation of the team (Garcia, 2018). Generally, rewards are offered to the team to recognize their efforts and performance and used to enhance their productivity. Two types of rewards are available for team productivity such as monetary and non-monetary. Some of the monetary rewards for team productive include cash bonuses, an increase in basic or variable pay. Similarly, some of the non-monetary rewards for the team include achievement awards for their efforts, time off work, etc (Trent, 2007).