2. The Team Building Concept
A team is a group of people working towards a common goal. Team Building involves the process
of enabling the group of people to reach their goals. It consists of steps like clarification of team
goals; identification of hindrances to goal achievements; facing the identified challenges and
enabling the achievement of the goals. Fajana (2002) asserts that teamwork is an integration of
resources and inputs working in harmony to achieve organisational goals, where roles are
prescribed for every organisation member, challenges are equally faced and incremental
improvements are sought continually. Katzenbach and Smith (1993) notes that a team can simply be defined as a small number of people, with a set of performance goals, who have a commitment to
a common purpose and an approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
The suggestion here is that teams must be of a manageable size and that all team members must be
committed to reach team goals. Also, the team members must be jointly accountable for their
actions and the outcomes of these actions.