Building Teams

What It's Important:

Having a collection of trained individuals, you now have the potential to build a team.

Teambuilding can help:
- Acheive commitment to the task/job in hand
- Takcle problems and take advantage of opportunities
- Encourage flexibilitiy in a changing environment
- Aloow individuals to grow in skills and confidence
- Make work more enjoyable

On the downside:
- Teambuilding can be time consuming
- Individuals may lose their identity
- 'The team' could become the vehicle for criticism by others in the organisation
- Teams may not always produce better decisions than those made by experts