Characteristics of a Successful Business Team

1.1 Describe the characteristics of a successful business team?
If you are working together as a unified team, success on a workplace is possible and successful teams constitute of some basic characteristics they are:
• A clearly defined and inspiring goal/vision. The same goal/vision is communicated to all.
• Unified commitment from the members. Team members totally agree and are unified under the goal; they work harder than their normal level of strength for achievement of goal.
• Team members openly share information, equipments, knowledge and other resources with one other.
• Conflicts and disagreements happen commonly in teams but effective teams use these disagreements constructively and not take conflicts personally.
• Team members

Balancing of the team is needed in a way that you have all the skills needed for the successful execution of your project. The importance of a balance team can be analysed by recognizing for college that
• Balance brings diversity of strengths, background, knowledge and expertise of the individuals, which are needed at different time on different stages of project life
• Diversity of team brings multiple opinions and ultimately quality decisions. As the leader hears the concerns and ideas of all members’ quality decisions are achieved.
Dr. Belbin defines team roles as “A tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way”. For the creation of a successful team different team roles are needed and so for my selected organization too. For Edwardes College whenever they make within or among departmental teams, teams should be composed of following roles

1. Plant
At least one plant is needed in each team made. Plants are highly creative, imaginative and excellent at problem solving in unconventional situations. Their weakness is that they are highly imaginative and their thoughts might be considered impractical and due to this fact they are

• A guiding principle as management approach today
• An environment of award and appreciation is created that motivates employees towards the work. Strengths
• Says that all the workers are ambitious and self-motivating.
• The approach is easy to understand.
• Seek harmony with the employee that motivates and let them to cooperate positively.

Weaknesses
• Represent people as lazy, puts most burden on manager to scrutiny analyze the workers performance.
• Theory X can be used to map other management concepts but alone the theory X stands nothing
• Application of pure form of theory X doesn’t exist in world. Weakness
• To listen and get opinions of everyone can be tiredly job, and costs financial and non-financial resources to the organization
• Application of pure form of theory Y doesn’t exist in world but you have to incorporate the theory to other useful approaches to get positive results.

2.1: Explain the stages of team development
A successful team goes through five stages during its life time, with each stage team members exert different sort of pressure to work cohesively in the group. A good leader is to master the skills of team management in each stage. The five stages of team were published by Dr. Tuckman. In 1965, Dr. Tuckman published four stages and in 1970 he published the fifth stage (adjourning) in his previous publication. The five stages of team development