Team Skills

If you ask for a definition of a Team, I would say, “Together, Everyone can Achieve More”. This is absolutely proven. Team work definitely pays, and pays more. Here, we present Team Skills, which is one of the very essential soft skills. It is best cultivated right from school days, where you will form a team for the first time, be it competition or companionship. Workplaces are where Team Skills play a major role.  You become a member of a team, need to co-ordinate with them and stand by them in every success and failure. This article will be helpful to students as well as working professionals in understanding the motive of playing as a team.

How to form a Team?

Well, team building really depends on what you want to achieve; a target you are concentrating on. Let us consider an example. You are a marketer and are working towards an important marketing strategy, say a video campaign. You would need a good designer and developer in your team. So, choose a good designer who can transform your thoughts easily and effectively into a layout. Developer should be able to provide a good theme, edit the design and also put your words to good use. That’s how team formation should go about.

Transformation as a Team.

Now you have formed a team. Let’s see how you can work together and get more as a team.

1.       Make a plan

2.       Assign Roles to team members

3.       Find and get the required resources.

4.       Fix the target date and schedule it

5.       Implement

Make a Plan. Get together with your team members and set a plan or path which will help you find where you can start. Find the responsibilities in every phase of the project. Ask questions to clarify things. There is nothing wrong in asking lot of questions in a meeting. Even Einstein asked lot of questions. When more questions are asked, more ideas will come up. Once you’ve made a plan, assign roles to team members and let them know their responsibilities for the project. Make it clear, so that your team members get the gist of things.

Now it’s time for each member in the team to find and acquire the required resources for their roles. As Will Smith once said, every problem you face would surely have been faced by someone else and the solution would have been written down somewhere. Search online, refer books and people who have done similar projects before in order to get more ideas. Fix the delivery date and schedule to release your project. Schedule it based on the requirements, team capability and resources so that you don’t have to postpone it as you near the deadline. This schedule should be feasible for everyone in the team. Now Implement your plan according to the schedule. Have a team gathering at regular intervals and whenever necessary, so that you can bookmark your progress and follow the schedule to implement the project efficiently.

Hope this article has thrown some light for Team Skills in you. Feel free to drop your comments and suggestions.

–
Balaji,
Editorial Team,
GSG