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Chapter 9 Teamwork and Team Performance

Protégé Brian Cohen Paul Jepsen Kateri Nguyen Megan Stiegelmar Yan Sin Yance Yu. Chapter 9 Teamwork and Team Performance. Teams. What are teams? A small group of people with complementary skills who work actively together to achieve a common purpose.

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Chapter 9 Teamwork and Team Performance

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  1. Protégé Brian Cohen Paul Jepsen Kateri Nguyen Megan Stiegelmar Yan Sin Yance Yu Chapter 9 Teamwork and Team Performance

  2. Teams What are teams? A small group of people with complementary skills who work actively together to achieve a common purpose. Starbucks team members are a team because each member is essential for the functions of Starbucks everyday tasks.

  3. Teamwork What is teamwork? Teamwork occurs when group members work together in ways that use their skills effectively to accomplish a purpose Teams add value to the work processes because working as a team can be more efficient than working alone.

  4. How to create a high performing team • Communicate high-performance standards • Set the tone in the first team meeting • Create a sense of urgency • Make sure members have the right skills • Establish clear rules for team behavior • As a leader, model expected behaviors • Find ways to create early “successes.” • Continually introduce new information • Have members spend time together • Give positive feedback

  5. Creating a high performing team Starbucks examples • Teamwork is essential for the success of Starbucks. • Employees are called "partners" and after employees are hired, they are given more training and knowledge of how to be a part of Starbuck's team. Howard Schultz, the owner, even goes to ways such as telling all new employees via video how happy he is to have them become a part of the team. (www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/ask/2002/05-20-teamwork.htm)

  6. creating a high performing team Starbucks examples • Employees have a right to participate in revising company policies as well as a manager. Each staff thinks that they also play an important role in company operating, and they can join to work out a direction of Starbucks. These give employees not only respect, but a sense of participation. (www.freeonlineresearchpapers.com/starbucks-case-study)

  7. Team Building

  8. How Team Building works • 1. Problem or opportunity in team effectiveness • 2. Data gathering and analysis • 3. Planning for team improvements • 4. Actions to improve team functioning • 5. Evaluation of results

  9. Approaches to team building

  10. Task and Maintenance Leadership

  11. Distributed leadership

  12. Task Activities • Directly contribute to the performance of important task. • Leaders at Starbucks have provided a structure that allows partners to infuse themselves into their work, so that they can inspire customers in legendary ways. The leaders call this the “Five Ways of Being” • Be welcoming • Be genuine • Be considerate • Be knowledgeable • Be involved

  13. Task Activities include:Five Ways of Being • Be welcoming • At Starbucks, “being welcoming” is an essential way to get the customer’s visit off to a positive start. • Be genuine • At Starbucks, being genuine means to “connect, discover, and respond.” • Be considerate • Starbucks leadership challenges partners to be considerate of needs on a global level, and staff members.

  14. Five Ways of Being- cont. • Be knowledgeable • When Starbucks leaders ask partners to “be knowledgeable,” they are encouraging employees to “love what they do and share it with others.” • Be involved • From the perspective of Starbucks leadership, being involved means active participation “in the store, in the company, and in the community.”

  15. Maintenance activities • Support the emotional life of team as an ongoing social system.

  16. Maintenance Activities (Five ways of Being) • Be welcoming • What’s in the Name?Welcoming people by name and remembering them from visit to visit is a small thing, but it counts. • Acknowledgeable UniquenessStarbucks leadership understands that customers long to have their uniqueness recognized.

  17. Maintenance Activities (Five ways of Being) • Be genuine • Expectations and Service: ConnectLegendary service comes from a genuine desire and effort to exceed what the customer expects. • DiscoverStarbucks understands that discovery is essential to developing a unique and genuine bond. • RespondStarbucks partners are trained not just to listen to their customers, but to take action immediately based on what they hear, and to learn from these experiences for future customer interactions.

  18. Maintenance Activities (Five ways of Being) • Be considerate • Looking withinConsiderate actions taken by leadership can serve to encourage thoughtful and respectful behavior among staff members.

  19. Maintenance Activities (Five ways of Being) • Be knowledgeable • Formal trainingAt Starbucks, all partners are encouraged to develop knowledge of coffee that can lead to personal insights for customers.

  20. Maintenance Activities (Five ways of Being) • Be involved • Involvement in the StoreOne of the best ways to become involved is to look around the office or store for clues on how to make the customer experiences and the business better. • In-Store ImprovementsManagement encourages Starbucks partners to be involved in the company, partners often look at how they can improve the manner in which customer needs are served.

  21. Be involved-cont. • Involvement in the BusinessStarbucks management makes a point of listening and responding to the ideas and suggestions of partners. • Be Involved in the CommunityStarbucks leadership encourages and supports engagement in creating a community meeting place, to supporting community events, to staff volunteering in community-related activities.

  22. How to lead groups and teams

  23. Norms • Ethics norms • Organizational and personal pride norms • High-achievement norms • Support and helpfulness norms • Improvement and change norms

  24. Team cohesiveness

  25. conclusion

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