Efficient Team Building Checklist

• Accurately and precisely determine the concept about team building (what to build and why)
• Check how clearly your employees understand the future of the team
• Find out whether all team members have proper understanding of the concept
• Ensure that all rules are identical and equal to each employees

2. Setting objectives

• Define mission of the company and document it
• Ensure the company mission is clear and approved by all team members
• State primary and secondary goals per employee for fulfillment of the company mission
• All team members should clearly understand how their efforts help with general objectives achievement

3. Creating plan

• Draw up team building plan in order to make usual working day as a part of team building process
• Set team budget and discuss it with upper management
• Discuss team building problems on regular meetings
• Schedule and document team building events and share them among team members
• Set time expectation for each event
• Consider weather you need to obtain professional training services
• Schedule trainings and meetings
• Choose groupware to improve task performance of team members like VIP Task Manager collaboration software

4. Explaining roles and responsibilities

• Avoid ambiguity of roles and responsibilities
• Define how roles and responsibilities of your employees are crossed with roles and responsibilities of employees of other departments
• Find and prevent points of probable conflicts between team members
• Explain roles and responsibilities to each employee
• Emphasis how actions of each team member support the company mission
• Set standards are rules in work with colleagues and between business partners, what behavior is comprehensible on and out of a job
• Apply delegation of powers to efficiently allocate roles and responsibilities among team members
• Set penalties and bonuses

5. Stimulating and developing team

• Remember the process of team building should be amusing and involve all members of the company
• Plan structure and measures which will be both useful to team building process and interesting to all participants
• Encourage team members. If a team member has reached his goals, all members should be awarded suitably
• Encourage people in the team. Everyone should understand that he is important for the team and that he brings the huge personal contribution to the general outcome
• Support feedbacks. You should be able to accept both positive and problematic responses
• Hold trainings and team meetings out of office as conditions at office can distract very much
• Provide employees with all necessary information. They should take part in team building process
• Create conditions for free communications between team members
• Find out what team members require productivity improvement
• Create a suitable environment in which employees will be focused on team building