Workplace Team Composition

1. Workplace Team Composition Robin Green January 29, 2013 Administrative Office Procedure I

2. Project Teams/Task Forces • A Project Teamis a team that is developed for a clearly defined project with a beginning and an end. • A Task Force is a common type of project team set up to deal with a specific issue or problem. • A Supervisor will develop a project team for a Christmas Party. • An Administrative Assistant will put together a budget and time frame for the Christmas Party. • Each employee will be assigned a task for that specific project. • There will some employees who will be the ones doing the leg work of the project such as: Booking the location and ordering the food and etc.

3. Committee • A Committee is set up to solve a problem, monitor an issue, or complete a task. • A Committee can be ongoing or have a definitive end. • At Church a committee will have a group of people to organize the choir department for a musical play. • At home parents will assign their kids to do a specific task such as doing the lawn and garbage takeout.

4. Cross-Functional Teams • A Cross-Functional team is composed of individuals from a number of different functional groups within an organization, such as the engineering. Marketing, and quality control departments. • The School has a graduation Party coming up and they need several students in Office Professional and Nursing to prepare the food and entertainment for the event. • For the event all of the departments will donate funds to help the graduation party.

5. Supervisor/Coworker Teams • Supervisor/Coworker Teams are teams with Supervisors and Coworkers. You and your supervisor work toward specific goals and must collaborate and cooperate. • You make it possible for your supervisor to do his or her job well by providing support where needed. • There is Formal and there is Informal which consist of you and a coworker or several coworkers in common in the workplace. • At Work the Supervisor and I will together pass the patients medicine by me setting up the medicine and her giving it to them. • While she is giving the medicine to them I will set up the next medicine.

6. External Teams External Team Outsourcing A outsource is using outside firms to perform certain functions of an organization provides a good example of an external team. The Lady at Barnes and Noble had to do business with the High School Librarian to research some items. The Administrative Professional had to work with The Human Resource Department to look over scheduling employees time and pay. • A External team is formed when individuals within an organization work with individuals outside the organization to achieve specific goals. • The Lawyers and the Doctors had to work together to see how to better prepare the patient for recovery. • Both have a interest in the well being and rehab time of the patient.

7. Virtual Teams • A Virtual team primarily meet electronically and cross the boundaries of time and distance to operate. • People often think of them in connection with natural and international companies, but virtual teams are also used across regions, states, or even counties or cities. • An Administrator and A Business Owner had to meet several times a month. But due to the separated distance of each they had to meet virtual instead. • My Daughter and I had to meet in Corpus Christi on Jan 4th however; I could not be there so we had a virtual meeting instead to avoid traveling.