Organizational Behavior: Creating Effective Teams #2

 

"How to Build a Successful Team" 

Illustrations by Julia Yellow

Adam Bryant of The New York Times Business Section writes an article titled "How to Build a Successful Team" in which he emphasizes that putting together a team that will succeed entails more than just finding people with the appropriate professional skills. Bryant investigates the art of cultivating cooperation to develop a highly productive team that can communicate, cooperate, and innovate in an environment of trust and respect through interviews with more than 500 leaders for Corner Office. The article highlights the following main ideas:

·       Make a Plan: It is essential to have a precise and achievable goal for what your team hopes to achieve. The team could lose focus and direction in the absence of a clear plan.

 ·       It takes more than just good recruiting: building a strong team also requires good recruiting. To make sure the team gets along and stays focused on the right goals, leaders need to take an active role.

 ·       Create a Clear Map: Leaders should provide their teams a clear explanation of their destination and the route they will take to get there. Success depends on setting goals and figuring out how to evaluate progress.

 ·       Create a Shared Scoreboard: A clear plan helps team members come together around a common objective. A sense of belonging and collaboration is promoted by coordinating everyone's activities and giving them access to an external scoreboard to monitor progress.

 ·       With the fact that it could appear redundant, it is crucial to keep reminding the team of its priorities. Important messages frequently need to be repeated for them to be fully internalized.

 ·       The Rules of the Road: Creating a set of values, behaviors, and cultural norms promotes harmony and productivity in the workplace. These rules offer a structure for how team members need to communicate and manage their time.

 ·       Create the Culture of the Team: Based on the personalities of the team members, teams naturally create their own cultures. So as the team's leaders are able to let the culture grow naturally or actively influence it by setting common standards.

Bryant, A. (n.d.). How to build a successful team. The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2023, from https://www.nytimes.com/guides/business/manage-a-successful-team

 

                                                                                                                    My comments

 One important point that I would like to highlight from this article is what was mentioned about cultivating a sense of purpose among team members. I believe that a purposeful life is fundamental for everyone. So having that sense in the workplace as well helps team members commit to goals and understand why they do what they do. Personally, I can say that I have worked with motivation and commitment to know and connect with the purpose of the company where I work, "Interbank" which is, "Accompany Peruvians to fulfill their dreams, today." Thanks to the sense of purpose I was able to work thinking about my contribution to the lives of others.

I will expect to read your comments and reaction to this post. 

Georgina