Team Building at Work

Everyone is part of a team, whether at work, at home, or in community. Teams can help tackle difficult problems so that they seem easy with each member’s input. Or, teams can take a simple task and turn it into an overthought nightmare of redundancies and bureaucracy. This is why team building and team member positioning is such a critical portion of successful leadership. Great leaders must take care when putting together a team. Before the first team member is assembled, a leader must consider the team inputs such as team size, team members, team goals, available resources, and team leadership. One particularly important input consideration is the team members. Team members should be those who have the skills to achieve the goals set before them and should include both leaders and followers who can work together in a team setting. Further, a leader should design team tasks that are complex and interdependent so that each team member’s input is needed to complete the task.