How To Be An Engaging Leader: How To See If You Have Workplaces that Work:Signs Of Productive Work Teams

How To Be An Engaging Leader

How To See If You Have Workplaces that Work

Signs Of Productive Work Teams

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A team focuses its work on common objectives and finding solutions to shared problems. It uses formal processes such as record keeping, facilitation and scheduled meetings to achieve its objectives.All these can be seen in an effective team that will:

1. Retain valuable organizational knowledge that comes with the continuity of staff and sharing of information
2. Enhance the power and feeling of satisfaction of individuals working on the team
3. Establish trust relationships that lead to better sharing of knowledge and understanding
4. Achieve objectives because individuals are working together
5. Hold team members accountable to one another accountable
6. Combine the talents of many individuals and therefore contribute more than the sum of its parts
7. Create an environment where the input from people at all levels is valued
8. Create new knowledge through working and learning with others
9. Provide a process and place for multiple perspectives to be applied to complex problems and issues
10. Generate new ideas and insights
11. Turn knowledge into practical results that improve the organization´s services
12. Use a variety of communication processes (including technology) to support the sharing of information, knowledge and experience
13. Create a climate where innovation and new ideas are supported and members listen to diverse points of view
14. Multiply impacts while maintaining or reducing the resources needed to do the job
15. Promote a culture that questions the status quo and looks for innovative ways to improve services and reach goals
16. Empower individuals, the team and the organizations

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Here are two short videos on what teamwork can achieve: Amazing results!