People's Dynamic Development, in conjunction with Organisational Diagnostics, has just conducted a study to investigate the performance of natural work teams in 150 South African organisations.
The focus was to identify problem areas that exist in teams and learn some valuable lessons from those that are successful.
"The good news is that there seem to be 10 common sets of problems facing teams," comments Niël Steinmann, head of People's Dynamic Development.
"The bad news is that these factors are affecting the majority of work teams in South Africa."
The problems in ranking order are:
- Lack of trust between team members and between team members and management.
Creating it could be the greatest competitive advantage.
- Weak task leadership.
- Poor implementation - no follow through.
- No focus.
- Poor interpersonal skills.
- Lessons and mistakes not acknowledged or learned from
- Poor interpersonal chemistry.
- False commitments from team members.
- Re-inventing the wheel.
- Lack of management support.
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