"It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit."
In an industry like ours where our core objective is to best service our clients, team effort tops the list of internal measures. And each of us would definitely have variedly experienced a nagging boss or a credit stealing co-worker or even an always available junior. The one factor we’d love to witness in our work place would be a balanced team structure with set responsibilities and cooperative co-workers.
No one can ever have a control on others’ thoughts --- thoughts around escaping work, thoughts around being casual, thoughts around simply stealing the work and so on and so forth. What we all can at least work towards is better team building activities. I’m sure some of these are already being followed but just to list down:
· Work Related
o Team meetings on alternate days --- to assign responsibilities around each task and gather status
o Penning down of all discussions --- for clarity and avoiding any confusions
o One mail at the EoD by all detailing out the client discussions happened over the day --- to keep the whole team at the same platform
o Monthly staff meeting --- to discuss broad aspects of the on-going work, current and new clients, internal issues etc
· Recreational
o A team lunch / dinner / snacking out (self contributory) once in like three months
o A small treat by the team leader to his / her team on a successful event / project
o 1 movie in 6 months (great if company can sponsor J or else self contributory)
And yes, the one thing all of us can really benefit with would be an offsite J … After all, all of us form the big Imprimis TEAM!
Would be great to have more suggestions pouring in …
Comments requested.
2 comments:
I agree with Amrita….Team Building is an important aspect for growth of any organization at a faster pace. Keeping all the work to oneself can assure quality (not always) but at the cost of time and as all of you are aware that in this competent world time is money.
I believe that for allocating jobs a team leader must have skills of apt job delegation and getting it done adequately from the team.
This will help the team have an insight of the work being allocated to them, make them more responsible and moreover their brains would churn out some really interesting and innovative ideas rather than wasting time here and there.
Rightly said, team meetings help team be abreast of latest developments. Minutes of meetings should be captured and circulated in the team defining tasks being assigned to individuals. This will lessen the burden on one person and improve efficiency of the task.
Recreational activities once a while is a good idea as it helps the team understand each other well and are not under a false impression that they are being bullied. Helps develop a bond for good and leading to lowering the attrition rate.
I agree with Amrita completely.
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