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Team Building Techniques (part 2)

Team Building Techniques – Results

The primary emphasis during the start-up stage is to establish clarity about the results expected of the team. There is evidence to suggest that teams with clear and meaningful goals form a lot more quickly than without.

Here are some tasks to focus on during this initial stage to help set meaningful results:

• Set and establish the vision and purpose of the team.
• Define a clear sense of identity and purpose
• Determine what are the meaningful results the team is being asked to achieve
• Develop with the team what meaningful results they want to achieve
• Confirm the goals and intended results with others in the organization.
• Establish what tasks the team needs to do to achieve the agreed meaningful results
• Identify who should do the tasks

Team Building Techniques – Strengths

This leads to the second strand of team building techniques needed during the initial team forming phase: recognising the individual strengths of team members.

Some suggested activities to develop the strengths within a team are to:

• Select and identify team members based on clear strengths
• Determine what skills and strengths are needed to achieve the results of the team
• Start to find out how you can best make an individual’s strengths contribute to the results the team needs to achieve
• Explore what the team need to be good at

There may be concern during this initial stage from team members about whether they have the skills to achieve the results. If this is the case then a focus on individual development may also be important at this stage.

Team Building Techniques – Teamwork

During the first stage a focus on the goals and the results expected of the team will start to bring people together. Time should be given to start to develop relationships in the team, especially to recognize each others strengths and begin to see where they can complement each other.

Team Building Techniques – Alignment

The team leader’s emphasis is to bring the individuals together, aligned behind a clear sense of why the team exists. The emphasis is placed on developing clarity with the team of the results you all want to achieve, whilst ensuring that individual strengths are brought together and individuals begin to develop relationships together.

Other influences

Almost before you start to form a team there are some important questions to ask about the environment in which the team will have to operate.

• What are the relationships with other teams, and their goals and results?
• Do you have any choice over team members?
• What strengths are needed to achieve results in the team?
• What needs to be put in place in the organization to support the team?
• Does the team involve other organizations or partners?

One problem area with team formation is when teamwork is not encouraged or valued and the team leader tries to force and drive performance. We discuss this negative stage in our article Lack of teamwork - forcing rather than forming a team.

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