Team productivity

5 Keys to a Good Team Work

Consolidate a commercial strength to put on the shirt to achieve greater profitability. Currently the market is evolving and the purpose of business is to maximize human capital to meet the demands of the environment through the use of groups of people engaged in activities, which would be extremely complex to carry out successfully on an individual .

The current exchange rate factors are focused on a collective rather than individualistic.

The priority of management must focus not only on patterns and processes, but in the people and their behaviors to get the best responses of all individuals in favor of the company. This management must communicate, motivate and inspire, to communicate the goals and vision, motivate all individuals to be useful to continuously improve the organization and inspire a new way of acting. In this sense, if someone in the company must “unlearn” and learn new behaviors, these are the managers.

Team Vs Working Group

One of the basic distinctions between one group and a team is that the first is composed of people working together to develop a task, members share a common goal and coordinated by a leader, but his performance is a function of individual effort is evaluated individually. In contrast, a team is a small group of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals and an interaction in which they are mutually accountable.

The use of teamwork can be approached from two different perspectives: one sociological, centered in the person and their welfare at work and on the other hand, the instrumental, which conceives it as a tool for management to supports the performance improvement process in any organization.

The defining characteristics of a good team work

1. Effort, flexible and adaptive behaviors: components need to work hard and have behaviors, knowledge, attitudes flexible and adaptable, with a positive predisposition to constructive criticism.

2. Communicate clearly, concisely and in a double sense: there must be a two-way communication between components and between them and managers. This upward and downward communication must be clear and concise to be useful, understandable and not saturate the time available components.

3. Complementary skills: team members need to be supplemented entity itself, not only in terms of their professional skills but also your work style.

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