Team Performance Productivity

Team Performance and Productivity

In the organizational front, it is a known fact that employees are the key of its existence. Also, no one person can be marked responsible for the development of the organization. It is the efforts of every individual who is a part of the organization and has played a major role at some point right from the inception to the development of the same. Hence, the running of organizations is based on teams. It is what they do that makes the organization the way it becomes. Team effort and performance has been a major aspect that has been studied in the last decade and there are various researches still going on this front. Hence it is important to understand what team performance and productivity is and the importance

Qualities such as unity, equality, honesty, sense of belonging, knowledge, freedom of expression are all important in order to make a team work. There are certain measures that a team can take up in order to ensure optimum team performance such as giving team members the authority to make decisions, keeping them informed about the organizations functions and current status, focusing work towards resolving disputes and differences when they crop up, encouraging the team members to participate as a team and not as an individual force, motivating them by creating positive environment where they can grow together as one force and learn to work in a united manner. It is also important to recognize the team’s work when their performance is commendable (Economy, 2014). This will ensure positive results and loyalty from the team’s

In teams, ideas often bounce about. This is a positive thing but also can be a bit of a drawback because each one comes up with hundreds of possible ways to make things work. Hence, prioritizing is the first main thing to take up. When work is prioritized, there is more focus on the work aspects on the priority levels. This will enable even the employees keep in mind that work has to be more concentrated towards what is needed. Sometimes, some works can take too much of time. In order to avoid that, the team can discuss and come up with ways in which they can eliminate unnecessary procedures and reach their target in a better manner. This leads to time-management. During specific times of the year when work is a lot, encouraging employees to work as a team and recognizing their work and making them feel important to the organization would be another manner in which work can be ensured in a productive manner. This will lead to employees agreeing to work overtime and ensuring that work meets the deadlines. Setting deadlines and performing work based on a well-planned use of the available resources to achieve what is required would count as an optimum way to ensure productivity in the team