Building teams........

Team building is one of the most interesting and difficult task, only a good team can excel and achieve new heights. Whenever we talk about Team we aim at “unified efforts”, Unified efforts foster great results which in turn help to excel.

Great Team ………? These days are a hot topic in every organization.

Why all the teams are not great teams?

How do you distinguish as one team as a star teams and other as normal team?

When we work in a team we aim at one goal then why some team is called as pioneer and some as crawler teams?

To clarify these questions we must address:

Ø  Why are all the teams not self-engaged?

Ø  Why teams are not passionate about their work?

Ø  Why teams lack work ethics?

Ø  Why don’t team enjoy their work

Ø  Why teams have issues of grapevines

People at leading position often face all above issues, I started digging through these issues and came up with easy and factual reasons behind these, Some of the firsthand answers were:

Ø  Team formation

Ø  Induction

Ø  Roles and goals

Ø  Vision of growth

Team Formation

Team formation starts with right at hiring the right person process, the better the hiring the better will be the teams. As team is group of personnel, if personnel is hired good team will be good.

So how we hire?

Since the internet today has conquered millions of minds and hearts, thus plenty of questions and mock papers are easily available on many sites.

What today matter is knowledge than mere parrot saying chapters? Today we aim at smart people rather than hard working

Apart from the standard hiring process we can judge a person by simple parameters like : 

 Appearance

Appearance is foremost parameter that helps us understand the candidate at the first look. Appearance is the blend of attitude and approach .Any professional would come for an interview in business attire whereas fresher or marketing personnel will dress him in simple casual attire which thus helps to peep us inside the person basic attitude.

       Understanding the position

     If one comes with his/her homework done he is more prepared for the interview. A glimpse of position and the company is very important when one is going for an interview. The candidate should have a brief idea about the position he is hired for and about the company.

       Hobbies

Why hobbies….? although that is ones’ personal choice but just looking at hobbies one gets to know the genuine nature of a person .Writing “I love programming”, ”I love reading technical books”… as a hobby is strange as when we ask about it they don’t have proper answer to their own written words

    Project knowledge

Project knowledge helps to understand after all what all things have they worked on, can they explain the project in which they were working or not?

People have the tendency to write one liners for the projects but when asked about the project structure, most have no answer…. Why? What the project does, what solution it provides, what services it provides.

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If a person has the most of above answers then we can proceed with our next set of technical questions.