In the last byte, we looked at how diversity and creativity influence the group settings. In today’s byte, we talk about empowerment.
In order to ensure that teams manage themselves (self-manage) it would also be important to empower them. While team work builds the spirit of a team and helps the team members achieve more than they could individually do, if empowered it the right skills they could achieve more. Here are a list of four such skills that help empower the team members and there by the teams.
- Competence Skills – these refer to the skills that deal with the strength – the mastery and experience in one’s chosen discipline and profession. This is like the bed rock on which other skills and the team’s performance could be built up.
- Negotiation Skills – this helps the individual team members negotiate with their friends and foes on various aspects to be able to actively achieve what they intend.
- Cooperative Skills – this deals with the individual’s ability to motivate his/her colleagues to work on increasing the gains for everyone in the team – this behavior is usually encouraging, helping etc to bring about the sought end.
- Communications Skills – this is an essential skill that allows the team member to express self and also reflect and think. It is this expression that allows people to express and understand others.