Designing Training That Works

Imagine that the organization for which you work has traditionally encouraged its employees to work independently on project assignments. Now, because of a shortage of resources, individual contributors will be asked to form teams to improve efficiency. You are tasked with designing a training program to promote a teamwork environment.

Discuss what type of training environment is best suited to assist employees with developing a new mindset that builds team spirit, morale, and support for success. Address the following in your post:

• What are some of the obstacles that might be encountered due to this environment shift?

• How will you design a training environment that minimizes these obstacles?

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Designing Training that Works
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Having a focused, cohesive, and team-oriented workforce is important for improving productivity, customer services, competitiveness and efficiency in the workplace. Management consultants and supervisors have therefore developed different techniques, resources, and training programs aimed at promoting teamwork in the organization. The numerous benefits that an organization reaps from having a team-oriented workforce have motivated businesses to implement programs and policies that foster teamwork in the workforce (Tohidi, 2011).
Some of the challenges of pulling diverse employees to work together as a team include mistrust between employees, the difference in personality, and resistance to change. On the same note, poor communication, bad leadership, absence and inability to resolve conflicts are also problems teams encountered (Tohidi, 2011).
The following tactics can be employed when designing a training program for teamwork environment in the workplace and minimize obstacles faced during team building process. First, the program designed should be made actionable, visible, and fun. The training program session should inject fun into team formation. The program should also encourage sharing of information between the team members and explain why their teamwork effort is paramount to the organization (Daft, 2012). The team leaders should also provide guidance and strategic direction to the team member to share and provide solutions for the surrounding challenges working as a team. Finally, team members should encourage and help people experience their challenges positively.
In conclusion, teamwork is important for achieving efficiency and productivity in the workplace. Therefore, managers and supervisors should develop training programs for employees to form cohesive, focused and motivated employees who enjoy working as a team. The training should be approached in a positive way so as to elicit any challenges and obstacles that hinder teamwork and team formation in the workplace.
References
Tohidi, H. (2011). Teamwork productivity & effectiveness in an organization base on rewards, leadership, training, goals, wage, size, motivation, measurement and information technology. Procedia Computer Science, 3, 1137-1146.
Daft, R. (2012). Organization theory and design. Cengage learning.