Work Team V.S Sport Team

WORK TEAM V.S SPORT TEAM

Summary

Basically, sport teams is the best example of teamwork. We celebrate while our favorite team win and commiserate with others when they lose. This teamwork activities has directly draw a leadership lesson. We learn new things from good examples and take them as our role model. We may apply it in our daily life. Researchers found out that the U.S individuals tend to use team metaphors rather reference to the family, military or educational institution . In fact we’re actually learning important lessons of teamwork from primary and secondary schools as well as educational institutions.

  For instance, participating in sport game like hockey. We might always change our position from a benchwarmer to player to captain back to player and assistant coach. The question is “How you make yourself part of the team, when you’re a worst skilled player or a benchwarmer? ” . You will never want to feel guilty with less contributions towards the team. Therefore, committing great contributions is by having good attitude and work hard to improve personal skills.

  Past experience might be specific for the particular person. Mischief created when folks try to over-generalize from the past experience. How to be a mentor leader? How to use passion and humor to lead teams? . There is also a question while people always doubt. How many coaches go on successful career in an organization?. In sports, the only thing that matters is winning the competition which is also considered as one of the many differences between work teams and sport teams.

Why build teams?

Organizations have restricted themselves to compete more effectively and efficiently. It is a better way to use employee talents as this is clearly seen based on their ability in commitment. Many hands work lighter, therefore teams are more flexible and responsive to strategic changes than traditional department, improve attitudes and reduce stress, share laughter and smiles, work together and focus on team goals . Two is better than one they can quickly assemble, deploy, refocus and disband. That sense of unity is one of the most powerful feelings you could enjoy, and is available to those who inspire cohesiveness and a commitment to building teamwork through experiential activities. A Great Results event is a unique mixture of hands-on and out-of-your-chair interactive fun, paired with an impactful debriefing session to connect lessons to your specific situation. Everyone involved will leave energized with laughter, and will even more importantly be able to immediately apply the insights to improve your organizational culture and productivity. Nowadays, effective department meant to be in a democratic way.

Differences between group and team

A group is made up of two or more individual, interacting and identifying each other with similar traits who come across to achieve particular objectives. While all teams are groups of individuals, not all groups are teams. A work group that interacts primarily to share information and make decisions to help each member to perform within his or her area of responsibility for the team’s success. Work group does not require joint effort. The performance is merely the summation of each group member’s individual contribution. There is no positive synergy that would create overall level of performance greater than the sum of the inputs.    

   A work team, on the other hand generate positive synergy through coordinated effort. Each individual effort result in a level of performance greater than the sum of those individual inputs.                                                                                                                         Groups differ from teams in several ways:                                                                                          Task orientation: Teams require coordination of tasks and activities to achieve a shared aim. Groups do not need to focus on specific outcomes or a common purpose.

Degree of interdependence: Team members are interdependent since they bring to bear a set of resources to produce a common outcome. Individuals in a group can be entirely disconnected from one another and not rely on fellow members at all.

Purpose: Teams are formed for a particular reason and can be short- or long-lived. Groups can exist as a matter of fact; for example, a group can be comprised of people of the same race or ethnic background.

Degree of formal structure: Team members' individual roles and duties are specified and their ways of working together are defined. Groups are generally much more informal; roles do not need to be assigned and norms of behavior do not need to develop.

Familiarity among members: Team members are aware of the set of people they collaborate with, since they interact to complete tasks and activities. Members of a group may have personal relationships or they may have little knowledge of each other and no interactions whatsoever.

Management is looking for positive synergy that allow the organization to improve performance. The extensive use of teams creates the potential for an organization to generate output with no increase in inputs.

Types of teams

The development of teams and teamwork has grown dramatically in all types of organizations for one simple reason: No one person has the ability to deliver the kinds of products and services required in today's highly competitive marketplace. Organizations must depend on the cooperative nature of many teams to create successful ventures and outcomes. Teams can be problem solving, virtual, vertical (functional), horizontal (cross-functional), or self-directed (self-managed) and can be used to create new products, complete specific projects, ensure quality, or replace operating departments.

Problem solving teams                                                                                                           Team composed of 5  to 12 employees from the same department who met for a few hours each week to discuss way of improving quality, cost effective, efficiency and work environment. They rarely have the opportunity and authority to implement any of their suggestions. Merill Lynch created a problem solving team to figure out ways to cut down the numbers of days it took to open a new management account.