Dealing with Team Problem

Dealing with team problems

Problem 1 Waste time at meeting

1. Timekeeper*

2. Establish clear agenda before the meeting*

3. Create a team slogan

4. All team members should be clear with the purpose of each meeting

5. Review after long meeting, find the reason and how to avoid next time.

6. Switch off mobile phones

7. Prepare ideas before meeting*

8. Arrive on time

9. If get some difficult problems hard to resolve, don’t waste time to go on, just skip or leave it to the next meeting.

10. Team building, establish closer relationship with the free riding member

11. Well prepared before the meeting

12. Keep the goal of the meeting in mind and avoid unrelated topics

13. One language for the discussion

14. Take a real break

15. Stop and reschedule meeting

16. Stop irrelevant discussion immediately

17. Only one people speaks one time

18. Give leader the right to cut short a discussion to achieve time bound goals

19. Someone in the team can supervise the meeting process to ensure its efficiency

20. Discuss the reason for lack of time

Problem2 Free riding

1. The leader should encourage team member to focus on the topic

2. All member submit written response by E-mail before meeting*

3. Discussion based on every team member, ask everyone question

4. Set rules that free riding will be punished(such as extra work)*

5. Rotate team coordinator role to that person*

6. Free riders will be assigned more roles/tasks

7. Peer evaluation*

8. Set team goals

9. Focus on the meeting topic

10. Assign individual tasks and responsibilities*

11. Assign different leaders, for each activity.*

12. Honest feedback to free rider*

13. Rules before the meeting to regulate each member

14. Separate clear duty for each, and set award or punishment.

15. Using the best of each member.

16. Q&A before end of meeting to make sure each person get the idea

17. Leaders should give more...