Team Building Workshop (2008)

The word Team means a group of people working towards a common purpose; a group of interacting individuals sharing a common goal and the responsibility for achieving it. The group is generally selected like a working group, but often with sharply defined roles, either cooperative or collaborative in nature, the members may be part-time participants of the team and have other primary responsibilities within their organization. Team building is a long drawn painstaking evolutionary process that requires a key ingredient of highly effective communications besides numerous other skills and expertise, team leaders and members may possess and may gain through a learning curve over time. All teams go through an elementary process of Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing phases and eventually achieving a certain level of functionality, efficacy and effectiveness that can have a translational value in tangible success.

Team building is a work in progress and it takes a lot of energy on the part of leaders and members to succeed. Success is not permanent for the same team over time as the environment changes so does the dynamics of the team. In order to have an effective team, communication, motivation and proper leadership must be implemented. In addition, each team member must support one another in keeping focus on the goal and timelines to be achieved. The workshop will cover lessons learned over time as how groups form and the need to organize structured teams to achieve the desired outcomes. It will also discuss the reasons of team failures and the elements required to succeed.