Team Work and its Development

Abstract

These days there is no profession, role or task that a person can do on their own. Regardless to whether the employee or manager has unique knowledge or if they have unique skills, in order to execute an idea a team of partners is required. Those who will support the idea, those who will promote it to the decision makers and those who will develop and implement the idea. This chapter will review the team work affect on team members’ outcomes; the role of the direct manager in developing team work and the team development stages up to the performing stage.

Team work is required not only when we are dealing with new topics, it is an essential need for every team of employees and managers who have regular and frequent or infrequent work relations—whether it be a nuclear group, consisting of members who have worked together over a long period of time or a task team formed to deal with a problem/lead a joint mission etc.

One of the basic management skills is the ability to facilitate the work of others. This is done through two main channels-Team development and Coaching.