TAKING ON AN EXISTING TEAM Taking on an established team is a testing experience. While you share the learning process with a team in a start-up situation, a take-over demands immediate evidence of your ability to take charge and recognize team strengths. Becoming Team Leader When a leader joins an...
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CREATING A SELF-MANAGED TEAM Self-managed teams (SMTs) are more independent than other teams. They are found increasingly in organizations that have flattened their structures and cut out layers of middle-management and supervisory levels as they reform their working practices. Defining SMTs Self-managed teams take on total responsibility for a specific...
MAXIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF A TEAM It is vital that all members of a team work together to maximize team performance. Give people full responsibility for their jobs and empower them to execute and improve their own work in ways that optimize their contribution to the entire team. Awarding Responsibility The...
SETTING UP A TEAM: SETTING GOALS What is your team for? The question may sound obvious, but time spent at the beginning of a project in defining team objectives is crucial to a successful outcome. Make sure that you have clearly established the issues that the team needs to resolve....
SETTING UP A TEAM: PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR A TEAM A degree of independence is essential in successful teamwork, but few teams are able to stand completely alone. Nurture good relations and support systems within your organization that satisfy both your team’s needs and corporate requirements. Providing Basic Support Most teams...
HOW CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS ENHANCE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT The most simple definition of cross-functional teems (or CFTs) is teams that are made up of people from different functional areas within a company – marketing, engineering, and human resources, for example. These teams take many forms, but are most often set up as...
HOW TO ORGANIZE A START-UP TEAM The organization of a business process and the site for the business are critical aspects of the management and the operational plan, but it is the people who implement those processes and use the company facility on a daily basis. The roles and responsibilities...
