Teams in a working environment

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In the workplace, it is almost a rule for a manager to get people with completely different temperaments, some of which are: motivating factors, styles of functioning, personality traits, among others. It might appear to an outsider that developing a team out of such different people is a recipe for disaster. To understand how this ispossible, it is important to identify the common core that drives a team. There are three kinds of teams that have three very different ways of functioning.

Depending on their working style, their managers chalk out a common program for all the members, which then is used as a motivating factor by each of the members in these teams. Now, let us take a look at these three kinds of teams.

Multi-disciplinary Project Team
In these teams, people from different fields of expertize collect together to complete a given task. Such tasks generally involve many functions, so often many individual teams working on one project are asked to come together as one single team for better coordination. As such a team is formed on special occasions, it doesn’t have one reporting authority, so the person who is assigned the responsibility to manage them doesn’t have total managerial control over it.

Ongoing-process Project Team
This kind of a team is comprised of people working in one process for a long period of time. The team members are familiar with all scenarios and have also gained experience and expertize in handling these issues. In such cases, the job of a manager is basically limited to providing supervision, authorizing certain processes and providing team support and motivation. He doesn’t need to be worried about the functioning of the team in itself, simply because the members of the team have been working in the process for long.

Strategic Planning Project Team
In such projects, the goals of the team keep changing all the time, depending on the scenarios and conditions they are working under. The team members have the liberty of not reporting directly to the team manager. In such teams, scenarios and possible outcomes are discussed in detail and all team members have to be involved in this preemptive planning. These teams work on the principle of collecting prior information and later implementation.

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