‘’Team-Work- The Key to Building Successful Organizations’’
"Teams are a firm's backbone."?We have always heard that teamwork brings a firm's people together, but is that sufficient? Of course, the answer is a resounding no. "Coming together is merely the beginning; staying together is progress; but working together is the real success," as reminded to us by Henry Ford in his famous quote.
In simpler terms, success comes when the organization has managed to get all the people on the same page to achieve the common organizational objectives of a firm. Thus, building a team has remained as challenging as forever. So, why is even teamwork essential at all? Working together improves a company's productivity and effectiveness and opens the opportunities for new ideas, combined efforts, develops company cultures, leads to faster innovations, and healthy competition amongst the organizations. (11 Reasons Why Teamwork At The Office Is Important - Sling, n.d.)
At Saan Global Limited, we follow the same, which has led us to build trust and unity amongst our employees, who strongly rely on one another to achieve our vision, without regard for bias or personal motivating factors.?Moving on, setting the common organizational objectives needs high amounts of effort and exceptional leadership skills because building a high-performing team cannot happen overnight. It is a continuous process and requires a great deal of commitment.
For timeless leadership- a high-performing team in other words, is the only key ingredient for success. (Keller, 2017). At Saan Global Limited, we focus on delegating tasks & job positions with clearly defined roles and strategies to avoid conflicts and have created solid structures for ourselves within the firm's hierarchy. "No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy is, if the individuals are playing a solo game, they will always lose out to a team," as mentioned by Reid Hoffman,- the LinkedIn cofounder in his thoughts. (Keller, 2017)
Organizations should also focus on indulging in similar practices to maintain reasonable retention rates for the firm and to not lose progress due to communication errors, which often costs companies our precious time and the cost of hiring new employees and replacing them. However, our job does not end here. Anyone who has ever led a team or worked in one understands how difficult it is to get everyone to be unanimous.
Process Quality Management,?a recent research study established by?IBM's?corporate quality program, is used in human resources, strategic planning, budget management, marketing, and other fields. It all starts with the organization's management gathering teams with the suitable individuals for that task. This study suggests that a maximum of 12 people is sufficient. Once you gather the employees, it is followed by comprehending the mission, stating out the firm's shared objectives, determining what matters the most—in other words, the firm's top priority goals—and finally, following up. Following up entails determining the nature of the adjustments that should be made and establishing performance standards for performance measurements. (Hardaker and Ward, 2021)
We have also recently adopted the?Beblin Model?to define the job roles of our employees, which consists of a total of 9 categories?being:-?Team-Workers,?Coordinators, Resource Investigators, Shapers, Plant, Monitor Evaluators, Specialists, Implementers, and Complete Finishers. Following the model has allowed us to work upon our strengths and minimize our weaknesses, as well as has made our teams more cohesive in the fast-changing environments of our industries. (The 9 Belbin Team Roles (With Examples) | Indeed.com, 2021)
- Arshiya Sehgal