# Study Note 5: 10 Tips for Better Teamwork ###### tags: `Multimedia Wireless Network` **Student ID : M10902804** **Name : Ian Joseph Chandra (章利安)** --- ## General Purpose ![](https://i.imgur.com/UIjk0x5.png) <div style="text-align: justify">Wouldn’t it be great if your team could pull together to get the job done every day? Every team, no matter how effective they may be, experiences struggles from time to time. Teams are comprised of complex individuals with different personalities, strengths and weaknesses and it is unrealistic to expect them to get along and be 100 percent effective, 100 percent of the time.</div> <br> <div style="text-align: justify">When teams do struggle, managers often find themselves struggling to find solutions, as well. Here are ten strategies you can use to tackle teamwork issues when they arise.</div> --- ### 1. Understanding the Mission and Goals of The Team The team understands the goals and its commiteed to attaining them. Team members must have an overall mission that is agreed upon and that provides the umbrella for all that the team tries to do. --- ### 2. The Team Environment Encourages Reasonable Risks The team creates an environment in which people are comfortable taking reasonable risks in communicating, adcovating positions, and taking action. The team members must trust each other and not get punished for disagreeing; disagreement is expected and appreciated. --- ### 3. Respectful Communication is The Norm An environment where each team members are free to express their thought, opinion, and potential solution to problem is a must. The team need to create a space for people to feel as if they are heard out and listened by the others. The team members ask questions for clarity and spend their thought time listening deeply rather than forming rebuttals while their co-worker is speaking. --- ### 4. Strong Sense of Group Commitment Team members have a strong sense of belonging to the group. They experience a deep commitment to the group's decisions and actions. this sense of belonging is enhanced and reinforced when the team spends the time to devlop team norms or relationship guidelines together. --- ### 5. View The Uniqueness of Each Team Member Team members are viewed as unique people with irreplaceable experiences, points of vew, knowledge, and opinions to contribute. The of forming a team is to take advantage of the differences. --- ### 6. Release Creativity and Innovation Creativity, innovation, and different viewpoints are expected and ecouraged. Negative comments are not allowed or supported. The team members recognize that the strength in having a team is that every member brings diverseness to the effort to solve a problem, improve a process, reach a goal, or create somthing new and exciting. --- ### 7. Engages in continous improvement The team is able to constantly examine itself and contiuously improve its processes, practices, and the interaction of team members. The team openly discusses team norms and what may be hindering its ability to move forward and progress in areas of effort, talent, and strategy. The team holds review meetings that assess the team's process and progress in approaching and accomplishing the team mission. The team has a clear understanding of the five stages of team development and the members know what is required to move the team successfully through the stages. --- ### 8. Solves Teamwork Problems and Conflicts The team has agreed-upon procedures for diagnosing, analyzing, and resolving teamwork problems and conflicts. The team does not support member personility conflicts and clashes nor do team members pick sides in a disagreement. Rather, members work towards the mutual resolution of problems and disagreements. --- ### 9. Practices participative leadership Participative leadership is practiced in leading meetings, assigning tasks, recording decisions and commitements, assessing progress, holding team members accountable, and providing direction for the team. Every participant on the team must actively contribute to leading the team to successful outcomes and contributions. --- ### 10. Makes High-Quality Decisions As a Team Members of the team make high-quality decisions together and have the support and commitment of the group to carry out the decisions made. They also gain the support and commitment of the people they report to in order to accomplish and communicate the team's progress and success. They gain the support and commitment from senior leadership by demonstrating all these ten teamwork necessities each and every day. The team lives high-quality interaction that is observable and an example for all other teams to emulate. --- ## REFERENCES https://www.thebalancecareers.com/tips-for-better-teamwork-1919225