To learn about communication within an organization, check out these articles:
Advantages of Communication within an Organization
Informal Communication in the Workplace
Teamwork is the ability to work together with other person who interact and influence each other for achieving common objective (goal or vision) and perceive themselves as a social entity within an organization. Team have become popular because they tend to make better decisions, support the knowledge management process, and provide superior customer service. In many situations, employees are potentially more energized and engaged working teams rather than alone.
Team members are held together by their interdependence and need for collaboration to achieve common goals. All teams require some form of communication so members can coordinate and share common objectives. Team members also influence each other, although some members are more influential than others regarding the team’s goal and activities.
How to motivate team members as a leader?
As a leader, you have to increase motivation of your team to perform his or her tasks within the group. Some of strategies on how to motivate team members and at the same time develop communication and team working skills are listed below:
- Be a role model with show outstanding task performance.
- Encourage your team to make challenging target and giving reward for their effort and achievement.
- Tell performances that have been achieved by working unit and employee to a higher management level with a real and positive action. Show rightfully proud of your employee and give them support.
- Create team identity and work with proud of team member – “Esprit de Corps”.
- Give reward to employees whose have good performance and try to develop their quality.
- Try to know what kind job aspects that make them enthusiastic and give opportunities to do that.
- Identify employee behavior that you think important to achieve success in organization and direct them with show by example.
- Give support to employees when thy need support.
- Find the ways to enrich employee tasks with increase their authority and limitation.
- Increase cohesiveness by regularly communicating and celebrating team’s success. Team cohesiveness tends to increase when members are face external competition or a valued objective that is challenging. Higher cohesiveness increases the team’s success.
- Ask a question to your self, what I should do to make enthusiasm for work.
- Identify result or goal that you want to achieve from a job.
Start now, develop communication and team working skills using the above strategies. If you and your team always enthusiastic and motivated for work, you will obtain all the advantages of communication within an organization and get the best result from your hard work.
Happy Working!
