How often do you sit in a meeting and team members just are not there? I mean, they are physically there, but mentally, they just have nothing to add to the team dynamic; they are dead weight. Often times most people would just ignore it or even worse, just continue in ways that destroy the team by allowing team members to continue to add nothing and then kick them off the team for doing, NOTHING!
Well, it is important as a leader within the team to ensure that team time is just that, TEAM TIME! Often times we set the bar by allowing team members to do other things during team meetings and they add nothing to the team. Often times this can be due to the fact that team members don’t know what to do. So to feel somewhat accomplished during the meetings, they may check their email or do something else. For someone to have gotten on your team in the first place, there has to be something that they can offer to the team problem solving or project at hand. As a leader, it important to help to define those roles.
So, how do we take a group of people and turn them into a team? It is a simple concept that has stumped so many people. Team roles are crucial to the success of a team. If a team member does not feel comfortable in the team or does not have a role, they have no idea what they are trying to accomplish. It is the duty of a team leader to ensure that a project is completed in an appropriate amount of time and that each team member’s abilities have been used to the utmost potential possible.
Team time is important to realizing how team members can be used throughout the team project and use the abilities of the entire team…
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