Conflict Management
The team movement has swept the corporate and business worlds. You cannot pick up a newspaper, periodical or textbook without seeing a mention of teams. Teams provide the key to move organizations into the twenty-first century. Most individuals define a team as a group of individuals working together for a common purpose, who must rely on each other to achieve mutually defined results.
Creating a Innovative Team
Teams in the workplace don't just happen; there is a building process that provides a team with an understanding of the underlying processes of teamwork, such as goal and role clarity and problem solving skills. Teams take time to come together and there is a natural development process every team progresses through. Generally a team has been formed for a reason--to complete a specific project or meet a specific goal. When this is the case, there are a set of identifiable stages in creative and innovative team development.
Teams are typically made up of a diverse group of individuals; each member possessing different capabilities and skills. This element is what makes the use of teams so advantageous; however, diversity can also create conflict. Therefore, it is important for teams to understand the dynamics of conflict and to regulate its natural flow.
Developing Skills for Team Members and Leaders
Teams go through stages of development. The most commonly used framework for a team's stages of development was developed in the mid-1960s by Bruce W. Tuckman. Each stage of team development has its own recognizable feelings and behaviors; understanding why things are happening in certain ways on your team can be an important part of the self-evaluation process. These stages are: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performin ...