LEAD SMALL
TEAMS
BUILDING REALTIONSHIP AND
TEAMWORK
Learning Objectives:
1. Define team and its importance to a
certain organization
2. Identify the skills needed for teamwork.
What is Team?
A group of people working together to achieve common objectives and
willing to forego individual autonomy to the extent necessary to achieve
those objectives.
A smallest team consists of 2 people and the upper limit can be
to the size of the organization. The whole organization can work
as a team if its members develop a common style of working i.e.,
constructive and cooperative. This is normally described as
teamwork. An organization is viewed as a network of teams,
temporary and permanent.
For a team to achieve it’s common objectives, its members should
share its objectives and be identified wholeheartedly with them. By joining
a team, the individual member “signs on” the team’s objectives, he enters
into a contract as a condition of becoming a member of the team. A team
member is willing to forego personal autonomy to the extent necessary to
achieve common objectives, by joining a team one has to limit his freedom
to do as he likes.
There cannot be a team without a leader who has ultimate responsibility
for deciding the degree to which autonomy of the team member has to be
constrained. He has to exercise his responsibility in a way that it does not