Following are some tips that could help to build team spirit:
- Share with the team the mission and make sure everyone is aware about it.
- Agree with them about the values of the team
- Make commitment through learning opportunities
- Create team spirit by bringing in different people who can be leaders and thinkers
- Hold all team members equally accountable for fulfilling their tasks
- Communicate well with all team members
- Provide the team members with the resources they needs to accomplish their tasks & goals
- Allow productive conflict to take place, but ensure there is an environment in which differences are respected and diverse solutions and ideas are welcome, and also ensure to address conflict immediately and use agreed-upon procedures to resolve differences.
I found that organising a team away/development day of activities related to work helped to get to know one another within a less formal environment - this helped to raise the spirit of the team members as they felt appreciated and valued especially as they were directly involved in the planning of the activities
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جمال طنــــش , رئيس قسم إدارة وتخطيط الموارد البشرية , وزارة البيئة الاردنية
تحياتي يزن
هذا الموضوع شائك جداً ولكن باختصار أنت تستطيع جعل فريقك يعمل بروح الفريق الواحد من خلال
توضيح المهام والمسؤوليات لكل منهم (الوصف الوظيفي
المساواة في المعاملة
الحث على الابداع
مكافأة المبدع
جعلهم يحسون بأهميتم في العمل
تكليفهم بأعمال غير إعتيادية
بحث روح التحدي وأنك كمدير تسير أمامهم
اطلاعهم على كل جديد يخص عملهم
اطلاعهم على تجارب الآخرين وقصص النجاح لهم
إشراكه في عملية التقييم
إشراكهم في وضع الخطط
There are many other ways a supervisor can foster team spirit. Some of these are:
Give verbal and written communication to individuals and the group for jobs well done.
Make sure team members know a bit about each other's personal life by setting aside5 minutes at each staff meeting to have one person tell about something positive that's happened in their life in the past month.
Find reasons to celebrate together, such as birthdays, birth of a baby or grandchild, moving into a new house, etc., and have small parties to celebrate these events. It's especially good to share your celebration with all the shifts on your unit by asking food services to provide a cake, and putting up a sign or banner in the break room saying "Today We Are Celebrating……………". By celebrating together you will be connecting the entire staff.
Let them know that you are also part of the team by asking your staff what they need from you to make their job more satisfactory, and doing your best to provide it.
Schedule stretch exercises that you do together before report. Have different staff members lead the exercises each day.
Ensure that humor is part of the daily work environment. Put a humor section on the bulletin board and invite team members to post things they find funny (keeping good taste in mind, of course). Also, encourage them to respectfully find the humor in situations at work. It's important for you as the supervisor to learn to laugh at yourself, and model this for your staff. Let them know that since we all are human we make mistakes. It's much better to find the lesson and humor in mistakes than to become upset over them.
Do problem solving and awareness exercises at staff meetings. For example: Have your staff members each write a list of10 things that are important to them, and then have the person next to them cross off one thing. Then talk about what it feels like for them to lose this thing from their life, and relate it to what the residents may be feeling about all they have lost as they age.
