Group & Team Paper

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Groups and Team Paper

Crystal Christensen

MGT307

February 14, 2011

Carl Nunziato

Groups and Team Paper

A team is not just a group of people who are tossed together by management to work together. An effective high performance team will enhance the company’s profits, sales, and competitive advantage. A high performance team is not just for a large organization but also very successful for small companies also. High performance teams help a company react quickly to threats and opportunities for the company. High performance teams will also help the employees be less dependent on internal and external experts. Although working as a team is a benefit to the company, there are impacts of demographic characteristics and cultural diversity that are sometimes negative.

Becoming a High Performance Team

To start creating a high performance team it is important to track performance of your employees. You need to measure the performance to ensure that the employee will be an asset to the group that is being created. The employees can be tracked statistically to monitor how accurately they complete tasks. The biggest issue here is to make sure that the employees are aware of the objectives and they know what they are responsible for completing. The team you are going to create after doing this monitoring of your employees need to be aware of what they are supposed to accomplish in the group. The group will require clear specifications about what they need to do, who is responsible for which task, and when each task needs to be completed. Deadlines need to be put into place so the team can project their outline of completeing the work. The projections will be based on the information that is given to them and the goals that need to be met. After reviewing the projections the team will decide what is important and what can be saved for a later time for completion. The team will then make a step-by-step plan on how their projection...