Teams and team-building become more and more important as employee work becomes more and more inter-dependent. Working with others effectively is a critical component of work success. Learn about how teams work, and how to build better formal and informal teams.
By Cynder Niemela
- Celebrating regularly is one of the qualities that distinguish high impact teams from ordinary teams. Make sure you have a system in place for celebrating with your team at regular intervals.
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By Peter Drucker
- "Team building" has become a buzzword in American business. The results are not overly impressive.
Ford Motor Co. began more than 10 years ago to build teams to design its new models. It now reports "serious problems," and the gap in development time between Ford and its Japanese competitors has harshly narrowed. General Motors' Saturn Division was going to replace the traditional assembly line with team work in its "factory of the future."
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By Anne Riches
- If you take a number of emotionally intelligent individuals and put them together, do you get an emotionally intelligent team?
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By Cheri Torres
- The absolute best and surest way to teach somebody something is to provide a metaphor or in some way link the new concept to an already known concept. Teamwork can be quite abstract for individuals who have spent their lives living by such limiting beliefs as "I've got to do it myself if I want to be successful," or "It's a dog-eat-dog world."
(Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 39
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By NA
- Do you really want a highly cohesive and highly effective management team? Sounds logical, is taught in MBA programs, and is sought by OD specialists. However, it isn't strategically viable or productive! Read on to find out why.
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