Effective strategies on building productive and high performance teams - A conceptual study

This paper discusses and provides clear ways to improve team building strategies that can enhance the work quality and performance. It throws light into needs of goal setting and also discusses a conceptual team building model, which explains in detail the team building need assessment, process of setting up goals, action planning and implementing process. To ensure effectiveness, the proposed model also discusses the follow- up steps to be adopted for achieving the targeted objectives. This article provides details on team building process that establishes and develops greater sense of collaboration and co-ordination between the team members. It also intends to bring out the importance of the team building stages that strive to build a higher degree of mutual trust between the team members. It proposes the team building attributes that are both strategical and critical and explains their influence over building a high performance team in a given period of time. This paper details on the influence of an effective team building process over clarifications on customer expectations, operational agreements and also on the changes in the people’s approaches that directly impacts the collective team abilities. It also emphasizes the effects of team building initiatives/interventions over the overall team productivity and performance. This analyzes the effective team building strategies that can improvise the learning capacities of the team members and the factors that can lead to performance adjustments and increased productivity. It reinforces the importance of building a good team culture in workplace and its impact, need for sustaining the creativity, innovation and competency around the changes that happen during the whole team building process (i.e) from initial stages of team setting to goal accomplishment.