Respond to the posts on topic: As a manager/team leader would you rather be assigned to a highly successful team, or a team that is less than successful. Why or why not?

by  Manoj Kumar Sintala

Highly successful teams can perform under pressure with minimal supervision and little training. The most successful teams tend to have a highly competent and experienced leader, and are willing to accept significant risks and rewards. They have strong communication skills, especially with others within the team and the team leader. Team members are skilled at summarizing problems and issues, helping each other with problems, sharing information, and making decisions. Team members are highly motivated to help others, are able to work with other team members, and are confident in their abilities to manage conflict and develop constructive ideas about team processes. Team members are often extremely critical of themselves and others about their abilities and effectiveness, and they often believe they do not work well with others. These team members often feel uncomfortable about the degree to which they can successfully lead others. This may result in the team not working effectively, making sure other team members are doing their jobs properly, or taking on tasks that they feel are more important to others. As noted above, many teams have had a number of team members who have successfully created a culture of openness, creativity, and collaboration with a sense of self-satisfaction. If successful, team members are able to explore new approaches that take away from internal conflict, and they are also able to establish boundaries and expectations that ensure that their behaviours contribute to team outcomes—in other words, fostering team building. Perhaps the most important takeaway from this research is that creating a positive work environment can be done in almost any environment in the organization.

 References

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Todorova, G. (2019). Building and managing great teams: An evidence-based approach.  Journal of Commercial Biotechnology,  24(4).