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Training On Team Work And Leadership Skills

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Basis the course I studied and my experience at work during my internship as yet, I would recommend my organization to formally plan some training sessions on Team work and Leadership Skills. I strongly feel the urge to recommend this training module in internship program and infact for the organization as a whole because I observed there is lack of cohesion and coordination within teams which sometimes impact the performance. I would like to substantiate my recommendation by sharing an incident I observed within the team I am a member of. The structure in my organization is like there are different Team leads who handle team members and interns and these team leads have individual team targets. Team leads report to Regional Head.
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When team members start understanding and looking at each other as contributors and not competitors, innovative ideas flow leading to better productivity. Team members will trust and support each other to achieve targets which will in turn help achieve team target as a whole. Ellis, A. J., Bell, B. S., Ployhart, R. E., Hollenbeck, J. R., & Ilgen, D. R. (2005) mentioned that “Trained team members evidenced higher levels of declarative knowledge regarding teamwork competencies and demonstrated greater proficiency in the areas of planning and task coordination, collaborative problem-solving, and communication” (pp. 641). Collaborative efforts not only improve productivity but ease workload and pressure by mutual support ad sharing of skills. Prichard, J. S., Bizo, L. A., & Stratford, R. J. (2011) found in their study that employees in trained groups reported lower levels of subjective workload than those in untrained groups and also performed better across a range of work activities.
Results confirmed that those teams that had been trained to develop a range of team skills such as problem-solving, interpersonal relationships, goal setting, and role allocation evidenced significantly higher team skill, transactive memory, and performance than those that were not trained in such skills (Prichard, J. S., & Ashleigh, M. J., 2007, pp. 696).
Benefit of Leadership Skills Program: Even if a team is motivated due to bonding and trust it cannot perform good if not lead by a strong

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