Essay On Team Building

A review of team building

Introduction
This essay is going to examine five concepts related to an important attribute of leadership- team building, and self-reflection will be imparted based on personal life experiences.

Part A
The definitions of team building are different among scholars. Salas et al (1999) define it as “a process by which team members become able to effectively participate in the targeted change requires that the team acquire new skills” while Cummings and Worley (2009) define it in a more holistic way as: “a process of development in goal setting, role clarification, interpersonal relations and problem-solving abilities of team members”. The five concepts are: “dependency and inclusion”, “counter-dependency and fight”,

According to Salas et al. (2009), successful team building lead to role clarification and positive collaboration among members and leaders. This is critical since I will be involved in numerous teamwork, no matter they are group projects in university or multi-disciplinary treatment for patients in my future healthcare career. Team building enables me to take up leader’s role to develop systematic labor division for my members, thus to create a fair and active team culture which optimize synergy to finish projects/presentations/patient services. More importantly, as a future OT, I have to lead my patients, especially in treatments like group therapy, team building is vital in empowering me to establish rapport with them. According to Antai-Otong (1997), team building involves a sophisticated leader who understands difficulties of members and allow them to express them assertively. I learnt to treat my patients and my “future team members” in such way to avoid “counter dependency and fight “ and to achieve “trust and structure” through respecting their will and feelings, so that I can become a compassionate and trustworthy tomorrow’s