TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

Improving Workplace Team Effectiveness



Executive Summary

To achieve team building, the purpose or the outcome should be clear to all the team members. Decisions shouldn't be taken, before taking on board all the team members. This makes team members confident in the management and knows that they have a part to play in the team's progress. Teams should be well aware of how well they are performing and where do they stand on the ladder. This will serve as a tool to reflect on the progress made thus far, and will help in achieving future objectives. There should be open discussion and a proper procedure being laid to address issues. Sales performance will drastically improve for Advertising Sales Company and its turnover will decline if employee motivation is enhanced. People's concerns should be addressed; effective planning and implementation along with evaluation of results can make things better. Sales team should be provided with the right tools to continue achieving targets on a regular basis. Setting goals, addressing employee concerns and ensuring everyone is on the right track is the key ingredient towards long term success of the sales department. A structured mechanism is given later to how to go about addressing this issue and make things better.

With the implementation of the process and procedures highlighted in this paper, Advertising Sales Company will improve its turnover and will be able to retain its employees in the longer run.

Improving Workplace Team Effectiveness

Introduction

Team effectiveness is all about utilizing your resources to the fullest and getting the best out of them. The main essence behind this concept is to make people comfortable in working together. It's a well known fact that people working together can achieve better results through integrated efforts, rather than people working on an individual capacity.

The key to effective teamwork is to gather the right sort of resources. It would be foolish to hire everyone with the same sort of skill set. If an organization wants to succeed, then it must have a diverse blend of talent and should have the right complementary resources which work well in harmony with others. Team effectiveness comes through setting the right goals for everyone, based on ones capacity to achieve (Macgregor, Smith and Kaztenbach, 2012).

It's very important to engage the team in a proper manner, so that people get satisfied with their work. People should be told about the outcomes to be achieved as a result of their performance. This leads to a proper roadmap for people to follow. Team effectiveness in resolving issues in the right manner so that the basic objective gets achieved at all cost, without compromising the standards. There should be a proper mechanism as per how issue solving should take place and all the key stakeholders should be involved in this process.

Discussion

Aim & Purpose

The aim of this proposal is to ensure that sales targets are achieved and teams are working in a harmonized way, while contributing towards enhancing the productivity of each individual ...