Training course on teamwork and stress management
Teamwork
What is a team?
Is a group of individuals gathered together, directed by one goal, And struggling for the same results, And the team is as a power station for potential energy, Because everyone offers a unique contribution, For this reason, we find in a good team that the whole is greater and more important than the one.
Qualities which should be available in the team members
- Knowledge and experience in the task entrusted to the individual
- The presence of self-motivation of the individual
- Collaborator
- Flexible
- Respectful of others
- Tolerant
- Love to help others
Problems facing the work of the team
- Lack of purpose clarity
- Building multiple teams within the team
- Lack of planning and organization and follow-up to the work of the team
- Low morale and enthusiasm
- Intense competition
- Aggression among Members
- Lack of trust between the team members
- Negativity among some members
- Intransigence among some members
- Withhold information during the team's work
- Tendency of some to individual goals
- Conflicts Intensification within the team
Team efficiency
- Degree of team cohesion
- Degree of team’s satisfaction of findings and results
- The team members sense of appropriate opportunities to express an opinion
- How effective are conflicts resolving methods
- The team's handling of its members and their relationships with each other
- Leverage degree of team available data and competencies of its members
- Efficiency of inter team members communication and the safety of other interaction patterns
- How good feelings and emotions are among team members
- Objectives clarity to team members
- Taking the appropriate decisions based on scientific grounds
- Follow the principle of openness and constructive confrontation
- To implement a permanent evaluation of the work of the team
- Planning implementation and organizing the work of the team
- Follow the basic rules of teamwork
Build team confidence
Confidence builds up in an environment will include four elements:
- Honesty: integrity, to stay away from lying, to get away from the hype
- Openness: a desire to share information, concepts and ideas and acceptance of other’s ideas
- Cohesion: Acts and Answers that can be expected
- Treating people with dignity and justice
Benefits of confidence in the team:
- Confidence allow to the team members to stay focused on the main objectives
- Confidence raises the quality of cooperation
- Confidence enhance a better communication and a better efficiency
Benefits of teamwork
- Each participant presents his knowledge and experience to the team
- Be more challenging work and pushes to the discussion and the achievement of the goals
- Each work unit is represented in the group and is involved and integrated with the work
- Errors are easily eliminated by following new steps within the work practice
- Be suggestions and recommendations made by the team members are easy to remember and feasible
- By addressing function problems with great ease
Principles in teamwork
- Criticize ideas, not people
- Focus on access to the best decision not to prove that I am right and others are wrong, the aim is not to win but for the team to win
- I encourage everyone to participate and provide them with the ability to participate
- I listen to others views even if I disagree with them in opinion; if others idea is not clear to me, I ask them for clarification then echo what I understood from their thoughts until I make sure that I have understood their point of view properly
- I Gatherer in my mind the views of all members and try to choose a wiser view without bias and without being a prisoner of my own ideas
- I Try to understand the views of all parties
- Gladly Change my mind and opinions (with an open-mind) If I find that I am wrong.
Value and advantages of teamwork
- Competition is directed towards cooperation
- Help everyone to be involved in the work
- Decisions are taken collectively.
- Accelerates the implementation of the decisions taken
- Helps to access into innovative ideas
- Expands members horizons and develop their skills
- Provides better coordination of work, responsibilities allocation and delegation of authority
- Meets the need to belong to a group
Building effective and cohesive team requires the following
1- All members Involvement and the achievement of the partnership spirit.
2- Achieve the members' commitment to the objectives set and make every member knows why he was chosen to do the job
3- Maintain the unity of the team and the cooperation and collaboration of its members
4- Consult members in decisions related to the team
5- Deal with problems that arise quickly and seriously
6- Create the right atmosphere to work and ensure the interests and comfort of the team members are evaluated.
7- Ensure the interests of the institution and achieve its goals and objectives are met.
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