What are the tools techniques in team development?

Answer 1

A strong project team can assure the success of a project. While there isn't one right way to do it, there are some common things that we can look at. The purpose of the techniques described below is to serve as an exploration point in your own journey to build the best team ever.

•Build a broad-based team.

If there is a possibility do a thorough check on team-to be members, choose only people that are known to get things done and are good team players. Know their strengths and weaknesses, get feedbacks from previous projects.

•Comprehensive team reviews.

In ideal - all team members should be available to freely express and asses their thought about other team members work. It should be non-threatening and then we should find out where things are going well and where we need improvement. In reality this is very hard to achieve, because people tend not to express their thoughts about other team members, team needs to be socialized to achieve this.

•Team decision making.

Team members need to know how their thoughts and suggestions can influence the outcome of the project, for that they need to know which team decision technique is being used (consensus, majority rule, minority rule, averaging, expert, authority rule without discussion, authority rule with discussion).

•Team spirit and support.

Team members should share personal motivation and ambition. Usually people want more than they are willing to put in, so sharing it within the team will help to address these issues. Project manager should keep the "bad" stuff to himself as long till it doesn't affect team member's ability to perform the job successfully. Project manager should provide full support to his team in the eyes of upper management- if there will be no trust between the manager and other team members, I doubt there can be a successful project.

•Team objectives.

Last but not least, all the things should be clearly stated to the team for a successful onward collaboration: team objectives, phases and timelines, stakeholders, project outputs, deliverables, risks, SWOT.