By Racheal Kiiza
I have heard about teams, team work, and a whole lot on team dynamics but I had never looked at them on a broad basis like how it was done in Kyusa Uganda –Module one training manual last week.
One would wonder what a team really is since the word is used almost everywhere and anywhere. A team is a group of people that share a common purpose, to which they are all committed, and who are empowered to set goals, solve problems and make decisions.
Team work on the other hand is work done by associates or a team of people to achieve a common goal efficiently.
For any organisation, business and firm to be successful there has to be team work and this helps the goals to be achieved easily since there is unity and synergy. The benefits of team work are immense and can only be realized when there is effective team work: this leads to trust building, communication network, co- operation among other benefits of team work.
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them” an interesting saying by Ernest Hemingway. Trust building is crucial in team work because you cannot work effectively with people you do not trust .Therefore the participants were encouraged to build trust amongst themselves and here various games were used to execute this like the blind man’s game.
Team formation involves five stages in which teams are developed for example forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Teams go through these stages although some don’t reach the performing stage and they get stuck in the norming stage.
In any team, there are people from all walks of life with different culture, religion, tribes, among other things and for a team to be effective there is need to understand and do in depths study on culture and its implications on society, as well as cultural diversity.
Team functions were outlined like directing, coaching, supporting, delegating and its crucial for a team to understand what it is supposed to do so that they work with understanding of what they are doing.
People learn through different ways and it’s important to understand as well as identify each person’s learning style so that as an activity is being carried out by team members they know which style each person works best under.
In conclusion, interpersonal relationships are crucial in any organisation which has various teams and it helps to set boundaries among team members, respecting people’s personal space among other things. When people‘s space is evaded, they feel uncomfortable and may even end up avoiding the group members yet synergy is important for effective team dynamics.
Therefore I can clearly say the participants are well equipped with knowledge on team dynamics, how to form teams, benefits, communication among others.
I have heard about teams, team work, and a whole lot on team dynamics but I had never looked at them on a broad basis like how it was done in Kyusa Uganda –Module one training manual last week.
One would wonder what a team really is since the word is used almost everywhere and anywhere. A team is a group of people that share a common purpose, to which they are all committed, and who are empowered to set goals, solve problems and make decisions.
Team work on the other hand is work done by associates or a team of people to achieve a common goal efficiently.
For any organisation, business and firm to be successful there has to be team work and this helps the goals to be achieved easily since there is unity and synergy. The benefits of team work are immense and can only be realized when there is effective team work: this leads to trust building, communication network, co- operation among other benefits of team work.
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them” an interesting saying by Ernest Hemingway. Trust building is crucial in team work because you cannot work effectively with people you do not trust .Therefore the participants were encouraged to build trust amongst themselves and here various games were used to execute this like the blind man’s game.
Team formation involves five stages in which teams are developed for example forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Teams go through these stages although some don’t reach the performing stage and they get stuck in the norming stage.
In any team, there are people from all walks of life with different culture, religion, tribes, among other things and for a team to be effective there is need to understand and do in depths study on culture and its implications on society, as well as cultural diversity.
Team functions were outlined like directing, coaching, supporting, delegating and its crucial for a team to understand what it is supposed to do so that they work with understanding of what they are doing.
People learn through different ways and it’s important to understand as well as identify each person’s learning style so that as an activity is being carried out by team members they know which style each person works best under.
In conclusion, interpersonal relationships are crucial in any organisation which has various teams and it helps to set boundaries among team members, respecting people’s personal space among other things. When people‘s space is evaded, they feel uncomfortable and may even end up avoiding the group members yet synergy is important for effective team dynamics.
Therefore I can clearly say the participants are well equipped with knowledge on team dynamics, how to form teams, benefits, communication among others.
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