Are you a member of a work team? Or is the team concept redundant in your particular workplace, because everybody is meant to work together
as one team?
The “one-team approach” seems to be gaining traction rapidly in the corporate world today, as organization structures are redesigned with the aim of breaking down the “silos” that stop people cooperating laterally across the organization.
What management often doesn’t appreciate that too much emphasis on communication and cooperation within an organization carries the seeds of many unanticipated stresses and strains, and productivity is often the first casualty. The confused and weary faces in this graphic probably say it all:
Kevan Hall, author of “Speed Lead: Faster, Simpler Ways to Manage People, Projects and Teams In Complex Companies” and CEO of Global Integration points out: “If you find your ‘one team approach’ leads to unnecessary teams and meetings and to everyone being involved in everything, then you have gone too far. It is a very common symptom of matrix management problems and surprisingly hard to recover from.”
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