Team-building Activities
A team is a group of interdependent people who share a common purpose, have common work methods, and hold each other accountable. The nature of that interdependence varies, creating the following types of teams : groups reporting to the same supervisor, manager, or executive ; group involving people with common organizational goals ; temporary groups formed to do a specific, on-time task ; groups consisting of people whose work roles are interdependent ; and groups whose members have no formal links in the organization but whose collective purpose is to achieve tasks they cannot accomplish alone. In addition, there are a number of factors that affect the outcomes of any specific team-building activity ; the length of time allocated to the activity, the team’s willingness to look at the way in which it operates, the length of time the team has been working together, and the team’s permanence. Consequently, the results of team-building activities can range from comparatively modest changes in the team’s operating mechanisms (for example, meeting more frequently or gathering agenda items from more sources) to much deeper changes (for example, modifying team members behavior patterns or the nature and style of the group’s management, or developing greater openness and trust).