The Effective Process of Team Building

In a team-directed environment, you contribute to the total success of the organization. You work with members of the organization to produce better results. Though you make belong to a function impression and to you specific to a specific department, you are unified with other members of organization to achieve the total objectives. So every team member in every workplace talk about building the team, working as a team, and my team, but few understand how to create the experience of team work or how to develop an effective team. The term 'team building' can refer generally to the selection and motivation of result oriented teams, or more specifically to group self-assessment in the theory and practice of organizational development.

When a team in an organizational development context embarks upon a process of self-assessment in order to gauge its own effectiveness and thereby improve performance, it can be argued that it is engaging in team building, although this may be considered a narrow definition.

The Process
The process of team building includes,

• Clarifying the goal, and building ownership across the team and
• Identifying the inhibitors to teamwork and removing or overcoming them, or if they cannot be removed, mitigating their negative effect on the team.

To Assess
To assess itself, a team seeks feedback to find out both:

• Its current strengths as a team
• Its current weakness

Improvement
To improve its current performance, a team uses the feedback from the team assessment in order to:

• Identify any gap between the desired state and the actual state
• Design a gap-closure strategy