Teamwork is more important than ever. Failures in teamwork have caused accidents in nuclear power stations, planes to crash and businesses to fail.
Many organizations are trying to do more with less by relying on the efficiency of teams.
1. Build trust
It’s very hard for people to work together effectively if they don’t trust each other. They also have to appear trustworthy to others or it may be difficult for them to do their job.
2. Use humor
If group members don’t seem to trust each other, then perhaps it’s humor that’s missing. One study by Professor William Hampes has found that people whose sense of humor is stronger are rated more trustworthy by others.
3. Mix introverts and extroverts
We tend to think of the extroverts as superior ‘team-players’: they mix better, pipe up more in meetings and generally seem to be getting on with others more smoothly.
4. Define goals and…
One of the greatest barriers to effective team performance is pretty simple: they don’t know what the goal is.
A study of 500 managers and professionals in 30 different companies found that it was an unclear vision of the goal that was stopping them performing effectively.
But not only must goals be defined…
5. …define roles
OK, everyone knows the goal, but do they know what they’re supposed to be doing to achieve this goal?
It seems like a pretty basic step, yet it’s frequently unclear to team-members exactly what their role is.
6. Leadership
Teams invariably benefit from good leadership. Naturally, it’s about motivation, structuring tasks, analyzing what needs to be done, allocating goals and so on, but it’s more than that.
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