TEAM - Together Everyone Achieves More

Team work and Team spirit are terminologies grooming up in today’s corporate companies. It may be for designing the new project framework,t introducing the new product in the market, setting up the new business plan etc., The most interesting thing which brings up the focus is top management shows interest in these type of team initiative, which brings a proper team formation and yields the healthy business ideas. The IT companies are organizing with the quarterly and yearly off-site meets may be in India and some companies arrange for the overseas visit too. In these off-site meet the whole including the top management sit together and discuss about the future plans and implementation strategies. These exercises would increase the team spirit and good way to doing a brain storming sessions. Many new ideas and suggestions would bring to the table and interestingly the top management is also part of this exercise which in turn gets into the immediate implementation of the ideas that brought to the forum.

Many companies are now interested in these exercises and started doing periodically. I would like to share my personal experience through this blog, when I was associated with Wipro it used to be a time where the whole team meets in an outside places like kerala, goa and other resorts for the yearly summits. Normally it used to extend for 3 days and the day starts with the official welcome given by our CEO, CTO and other top officials and followed by the other presentation by the regional managers across India on their future business plans and end the day with ostentatious party in the evening by hitting the dance floor.

The second we would be separated as a team and give a topic for discussion and that used to be related to the new business strategies and would cover areas like new products in the market, customer satisfaction and queries, credit and payment process, partner management and as such. Each team will have a mentor from the top management to see the progress and give the inputs on the topic of discussion. The day ends so interesting where we used to assemble in a room and do the 360 degree evaluation of all the team members. This will be good exercise and we used to understand our positive and negative characters would reveal at this forum, which will be a good practice for our personal development.

The third day will again start with the interesting note by joining a different group and an external trainer will trains us on different topics like communication, attitude, positive synergy, customer interaction, mind management and so on. We had received these from the worlds notorious company in sales training called Dale Carnegie training academy, trust me the cost involved is really high and worth of spending such money on these people.

These days we can see these teaming games in the manufacturing organisations also. Where the team is formed for the ISO certification, six sigma quality process teams, BS 7799 security standard team and as such.

The management theory says teaming is a game and who ever plays it very well will be placed very well. These concepts are often seen in across industries like music, cinemas, competitions, schools/colleges and so on. For any programme to present it in an organized way, teaming comes and stands in front for the pure play.
Let’s get into some theories on the teaming concepts.

Synergy:

The synergy is a teaming activity and in which the team cohesiveness is the head which yields desired results.

Positive Synergy

The positive synergy goes here with the formulae - 1 + 1 = 3, which mean two people together can produce more results than their capability. Typical traditional instances like two workmen involved in the production unit will produce more comparatively when they do it individually.

Differential Synergy

This is the contemporary concept derived by me and again the formulae goes here - 1 + 1 is more than 3. The meaning is when two people join their hand together; they can produce more than their capacity. The comparison to the previous strategy is that here he two people will sit together and brain storm about the activity and will perform better than the earlier one. So I mean here that they can produce more results than positive synergy.

So it get going with the various strategies which will be fitting into their respective domains.

Keep refreshing my blog for more new strategies to come..

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