How to use Teams within your Organisation

Use a team to serve a variety of functions for your business.  The day-to-day operations can be shifted to teamwork (factory production , airline crews etc.).  Teams can be formed to provide advice and deal with special problems such as a team created to suggest improvements in work processes.  Teams assist in managing problems by linking different parts of your business such as budget or planning committees composed of members from several departments.  Finally teams can be used to change your business by planning for the future or managing transitions.

3 types of organizational teams:

1. traditional work group
2. traditional team
3. self-managing team

Traditional teams are given power and authority and their leaders are selected by management.  Self-managed teams are given significantly more authority and tend to be independent of management. Delegation when undertaken correctly can work really well to spread the work load, empower employees and ensure all of the key stakeholders within your business pull in the same direction.