Working Together as a Team

The Company for which I have taken up their HR project has recently not been at it's best performance. Today I had a team meeting with all the Project Leads to understand what are their challenges and what is the reason for this non-performance. There were many operational issues that got highlighted, but above all, the one reason that stood out very clearly is that lately there has been some team conflicts within the team leads and because of that they are not having open communication channels with each other. There is lack of coordination amongst each other and I could sense that they also had discomfort talking with each other.

For any Organization to succeed there is a lot that goes in, like setting up clear define processes, digitization, market analysis, competition awareness and many other but again there are some basics that all organization should have and that is to have their internal teams strong, motivated and also working in good coordination with each other. In short Team Work. If Team members start working in silos looking at their individual objectives and not focusing on the final main goal of the organization then such organizations are going to fail.

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When every employee of the Company understands their clearly defined objectives set by their management and when they understand how they can contribute individually as well as collectively, it is then that they bring value to the company and the company benefits from their performance. But when employees only start looking at their individual objectives and fail to operate effectively in a team environment then the desired results may not be achieved. Our Company is somewhat facing a similar kind of situation, where ego is coming in the way of positions and people have stopped smooth and clear interactions with each other. It's a small company so there are not many employees also, and hence these differences get highlighted very clearly among the few.

What I plan to do now is have some informal meetings with them on weekly basis and making them interact with each other through some team building initiatives. A formal environment may not be very helpful to resolve these differences. While everyone has a unique style of their way of working, and at the same time some common traits we share with other people or we can say similar styles. My point is to identify those similarities in style by recognizing their patterns in the way they communicate and respond and accordingly design some training program for them on Communication and Interpersonal skills to resolve these differences. Hopefully I will see some positive results in my next official review meeting with them.

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