Chapter 10 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Why is managing the team itself crucial for success?
Managing the team involves ensuring cohesion, communication, goal alignment, conflict resolution, and overall performance, which are essential for success.
What is the Triangle of Relationships in team management?
The Triangle of Relationships signifies the interconnectedness of task activities, social activities, and boundary management in team dynamics.
What can managers do to mitigate the effects of the storming stage in team development?
Managers can facilitate communication, clarify roles, resolve conflicts, and promote collaboration to reduce the negative impact of storming.
Is it necessary for teams to go through each step of the development process outlined in Tuckmans Model?
While not inevitable, teams often go through forming, storming, norming, performing stages of development as per Tuckmans Model.
What are the benefits of conflict for a team?
Conflict can lead to enhanced creativity, improved decision-making, increased innovation, and stronger team cohesion when managed constructively.
What is the difference between a group and a team?
Teams share common norms, have differentiated roles, interact towards common goals, usually have a focused leader, align with the organizational mission, and are organized by functional area. Groups have specific purposes, shared leadership roles, and individual and mutual accountabilities.
Why is spending significant time together important for teams?
Significant time together builds trust, enhances communication, and strengthens collaboration within the team.
How can managing paradox promote effective team management?
Managing paradox involves balancing conflicting demands to drive innovation, creativity, and adaptability in team environments.
What are key considerations in managing teams?
Managing paradox, boundaries, and the team itself.
What are the characteristics that define a team?
Common norms, differentiated roles, interaction towards common goals, focused leader, alignment with organizational mission, organized by functional area.
Why should immediate performance-oriented goals be set for teams?
Setting immediate goals focuses the team on achievement, progress, and ensures alignment towards outcomes.
What are the benefits of working in teams?
Enhanced creativity, improved decision-making, increased efficiency, and higher employee morale.
How does managing boundaries impact team performance?
Effective boundary management fosters clarity in roles, responsibilities, and relationships within the team, leading to improved performance.
Why should clear rules of behavior be established for teams?
Clear rules promote accountability, clarity, and consistency in team interactions.
How should members be selected to make a team effective?
Based on skill and skill potential, not just personality.
How can a team be consistently challenged?
By setting new goals, stretching task assignments, and encouraging innovation and improvement.
What makes teams effective?
Having a compelling reason for existence, selecting members based on skill potential, high emotional intelligence, clear rules of behavior, immediate performance-oriented goals, consistent challenges, and significant time spent collaborating.
Why is emotional intelligence important for team members?
High emotional intelligence helps in effective communication, conflict resolution, and building relationships within the team.
What are the characteristics that define a group?
Specific purpose, shared leadership roles, individual and mutual accountabilities.
Why is the performing stage of teams difficult to reach?
The performing stage requires established trust, clear communication, aligned goals, and effective collaboration, which can be challenging to achieve.
