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rt of something larger than yourself • Virtual team • Team spirit
Motivation to building team spirit
• In a team-oriented environment, you contribute to the overall of the organization. • The bigger picture drives your actions; your function exists to serve the bigger picture. • Overall objective, shared goal, company objective
• Mutual trust is the first secret of successful teamwork. When members share a trusting relationship, they will feel free to express their views, understand each other’s capabilities and limitations, and communicate with each other timely. This helps to bring out the potentials, experience and creativity of the individual and create good work environment. •
Who should a good team involve?
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• Subsidiary：a company that is owned by a larger company: subsidiary, affiliate • Newly acquired • Acquire/merge/take over
• Take on responsibility
• Work on managerial skills • Accountable: responsible for the effects of your actions and willing to explain or be criticized for them • accountable to • The government should be accountable to all the people of the country. • accountable for • Managers must be accountable for their decisions. • Mills is responsible for a budget of over $5 million.
• Bring in: employ • Adopt/introduce • Come up with: to think of an idea, answer etc: • Is that the best excuse you can come up with?
• Electric: exciting • Throw light on sth.: throw/shed/cast light on something to provide new information that makes a difficult subject or problem easier to understand: • These discoveries may throw new light on the origins of the universe.
Team building
• • • • • What is a team？ Team Why work on team building？ Motivation to building team spirit What the benefits brought by a good team? • Benefits
What are the traits of a good team?
• Shared goals • Proactive • Clearly defined roles • Diverse backgrounds • Similar backgrounds • recognizing and appreciating good initiatives
• Monthly review
Correspondence
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How important when…? Evaluating the success of teamwork
• Mutual trust • Full cooperation
Benefits
• People have a sense of belonging • Staff make efforts toward the same objective and increase the efficiency • People are more motivated and engaged • Profitability and communication will be improved
• Manufacturer: plant factory • a big company: corporation, multinational, conglomerate • an Internet company: dot-com • a company that is owned by a larger company: subsidiary, affiliate • abbreviations used in company names: Ltd (Limited) • Co. (Company) • Corp. (Corporation) • PLC (Public Limited Company)
• 1 I prefer to work on my own. In a team, you often have to give up some individuality in order for the team to function as a whole. It doesn’t allow you to have independent thinking. And as group decision-making usually takes longer time, working in a team is not necessarily efficient.
• Full cooperation among team members has a direct impact on the success or failure of the team. When team members develop a strong awareness of cooperation, then would make collective efforts to achieve the common objectives and ensure a higher level of quality and workmanship. • On top of that, timely communication and decision making will also help to improve work efficiency.
Team work
Working in a Team vs. working as a Freelancer
• No need to Sacrifice individuality • Make contribution to the shared objective • Flexible working hours • Access to more resources • Require managerial and coordinative skills • Could resort to help from fellows or superior • Entitled to be a decision-maker • Enjoy the benefits of training, promotion
• At a profit/loss • In total: total v. • Returns: the amount of profit that you get from something: • The markets are showing extremely poor returns. • The average rates of return were 15% • ROI: returns on investment
• 2 It’s very important. You need someone with managerial skills to lead within the team: he is able to see the big picture of the work going on, to engage others, coordinate interpersonal relationships and organise resources effectively.
Speak-team work spirit
• 1 Do you like working in a team or on your own? • 2 How important is the central leadership of a team? • 3 Do you prefer to work in a small team or a big team? • 4 Is it necessary for a team to have a regular meeting?