Q1 How will you influence people to strive willingly for

Question by ritesh: Q1 How will you influence people to strive willingly for group objectives in your organization (target based?
Apply interpersonal influence through communication process
towards attaining your personalized goals?

Great answer:

Answer by Robert M
Several organizational factors must be in place in order for a team to succeed:

* Common and consistent goals that are accepted by all team members. Organizational commitment to the team concept, including support from top management.

* Clear roles and well-defined responsibilities for members and leaders.

* Both real and perceived power delegated to the teams.

* Mutual accountability for team performance.

* Recognition and reward systems that support team performance.

Teams sometimes fail because they don’t adequately define leadership roles and task clarity. These may be clarified by using a shared leadership model. For example, team members may agree to take leadership responsibility for specific aspects of the team’s mission. In some cases, leadership may shift to different team members on a rotating basis.

The following elements are necessary when building a cross-functional team:

* It must contain the right members.

* The team must have a clear direction.

* Members must have access to the “movers and shakers” of the organization.

* Members must agree on the standards by which they will gauge success or failure.

* Everyone must agree on the ground rules from the start.

* Members must have the proper training in teamwork.

Teams are not always the best way to structure work. Managers should ask themselves if requiring employees to make decisions as a group enhances or impairs work efficiency.

Effective Pay Programs

More and more companies are trying to develop effective team-based pay programs. A Hewitt Associates study found that successful team pay programs have the following common characteristics:

* They link teams to their performance management systems with the use of shared responsibilities, goals and training.

* They provide variable pay plans, especially team incentive plans, business incentive plans or project outcome plans.

* They use peer reviews, subordinate reviews and internal client-customer reviews.

* When making pay increase decisions, they involve a number of different people in the process.

Communication Anxiety

Good employee communication is essential to good teamwork, but studies indicate that some team members suffer from “communication anxiety.” To address the problem, Whirlpool Corp. tested employees for such anxiety and then provided them with training to alleviate the problem.

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