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Teambuilding For Supervisors

This session focuses on recognizing team value, building commitment, and fostering cooperation among team members. Discover techniques to create a productive work atmosphere, encourage contributions, and resolve conflicts effectively. Learn how to measure progress, recognize achievements, and maintain communication within your team.

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Teambuilding For Supervisors

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  1. Teambuilding For Supervisors

  2. Session Objectives You will be able to: • Recognize the value of team efforts • Identify the characteristics of an effective team • Build commitment and cooperation among team members • Use teams effectively to achieve goals

  3. Session Outline • Characteristics of effective teams and members • Creating a productive work atmosphere • Encouraging commitment, cooperation, and contributions • Effective communication and conflict resolution • Measuring progress and recognizing achievement

  4. Benefits of Teambuilding • Increased efficiency • Heightened motivation • Improved quality of output • More flexible operations • Enhanced creativity

  5. Effective Teams • Manageable size • Diverse skills, knowledge, and experience • Resourceful, competent leadership • Common goals

  6. Effective Teams (cont.) • Cooperation • Solidarity • Open exchange of ideas and information • Mutual respect and support

  7. Team Members • Understand their own and others’ roles • Agree on goals and the tasks to achieve them • Trust and cooperate with one another • Continually communicate and coordinate efforts

  8. Team Members (cont.) • Achieve consensus through listening, debating, and compromise • See value in combining all members’ skills, experiences, and perspectives • Believe that the combined efforts of the team will produce worthwhile benefits

  9. Teams and Team Members • Questions?

  10. Create the Right Atmosphere • Design an informal, relaxed, and open work environment • Encourage respect for different points of view • Require professionalism and courtesy • Promote mutual respect • Be fair and consistent

  11. Set Clearly Defined Goals • Communicate expectations at the outset • Explain goals and objectives • Encourage feedback • Prioritize goals and determine how each will be achieved • Decide how success will be measured

  12. Build Commitment • Write a mission statement • Cultivate a sense of belonging and acceptance • Set a good example

  13. Build Commitment (cont.) • Show concern for team members • Celebrate group success

  14. Encourage Contributions • Ask for full participation • Welcome suggestions • Coach and counsel team members

  15. Encourage Contributions (cont.) • Provide challenging assignments • Delegate meaningful tasks

  16. Promote Cooperation • Emphasize collaboration, not competition • Promote the sharing of information, ideas, and expertise • Endorse compromise • Reinforce team-oriented behavior

  17. Provide Adequate Support • Keep in close touch with the group • Provide adequate training • Make sure required resources are available • Give the team enough time to complete its mission • Give clear and accurate instructions

  18. Provide Adequate Support (cont.) • Help members coordinate team duties with other responsibilities • Encourage team members to bring problems to you • Go to bat for your people • Encourage support between one another

  19. Maintain Communication • Allow adequate time for group discussion • Encourage constructive criticism of ideas • Provide feedback and guidance • Teach debating and listening skills • Be accessible to your team

  20. Resolve Conflicts Promptly • Some conflict is normal • Establish ground rules for dealing with conflict • Teach conflict resolution techniques • Encourage team members to manage their own conflicts • Step in when there is no swift resolution

  21. Teambuilding Techniques • Questions?

  22. Establish Links • Maintain relationships with other teams, departments, and functions • Keep your manager informed • Encourage team members to make useful connections • Focus on the big picture

  23. Measure Progress • Keep an eye on schedules • Check workflow • Monitor quality • Observe individual performance

  24. Recognize Achievement • Recognize both individual and group achievement • Bestow a sense of prestige and status on team membership • Recognize contributions in appraisals • Reward successful completion of the mission

  25. Key Points to Remember • Teams make use of diverse skills, knowledge, and experience • Effective teams improve efficiency, quality, and motivation • Your role is to provide leadership, support, and encouragement

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