Using real work for Team Building moved the people on the team;
from functional autonomy to interdependence;
from lone experts to a collaborative, focused team;
from impulsive to disciplined;
from the use of experience and instinct to the use of data;
from separate functions to systems thinking.
Characteristics of Effective Teams and Teamwork:
Have you ever been a member of a team before? Perhaps it was a work team or a sports team or even Scouts or the military. Was the team performing optimally? Was it a smooth running team? Or, maybe the team you were part of was totally dysfunctional.
LARGE GROUP CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING Create-Learning developed an off-site team building retreat for a state-wide company. The group consisted of 117 people from Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany and New York City, New York. Existing work teams were undergoing a restructuring and work was being allocated in new and different ways. The changes taking place within … Continued