Team Building | Clear Performance Expectations in Team Building | ConTEXT | Competence | Collaboration | COORDINATION | Intrapersonal Intelligence

Team Building

Team Building is the process of improving collective performance.

Eight Cs for Team Building
The following areas help to produce a successful team that creates effective and focused work environment.

• Clear Expectations: Leadership needs to clearly communicate its expectations for the team’s performance and expected outcomes. Also ensure that team members understand why the team was created? The organization should demonstrate constancy of purpose in supporting the team with resources of people, time and money. Does the work of the team receive sufficient emphasis as a priority in terms of time, discussion, attention and interest directed its way by executive leaders?

• Context: Team members should know and understand their purpose of participation. They should understand strategy of using teams will help the organization attain its communicated short or long term goals their importance as a member to the accomplishment of overall goals.

• Commitment: The commitment and participation of team members are very important for the team.  Understanding of team’s mission is important for members, their commitment to accomplishing the team mission and expected outcomes, their contribution as valuable service to the organization and to their own careers and their excitement to be challenged by the opportunity.

• Competence: To accomplish mission, team requires appropriate participation from people. (As an example, in a process improvement, is each step of the process represented on the team. Therefore its members should have the knowledge, skill and capability to address the issues for which the team was formed. If not, the team should have access to resources, strategies and support needed to accomplish its mission.

• Charter: The team’s mission is based on its assigned area of responsibility. Has the team defined and communicated its goals; its anticipated outcomes and contributions; its timelines; and how it will measure both the outcomes of its work and the process the team followed to accomplish their task?

• Collaboration: Team building is a group process and all team members should understand the roles and responsibilities of each others.Effective interpersonal interaction is very necessary for conflict resolution, decision making and in accomplishing some action plan.

• Creative Innovation: The leadership should encourage change and innovation and the team should come up with creative thinking, unique solutions, and new ideas. In addition people who take reasonable risks, initiatives and maintain the status quo should be rewarded.

• Coordination: Team’s coordination by a central leadership assists the group to obtain what they need for success. Therefore, the resources and responsibilities should allocate on an earlier stage to ensure that the assigned areas are functioning in right flow.

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Multiple Intelligence | Theory of multiple intelligences | Gardner's Multiple Intelligences | Visual Intelligence | Interpersonal Intelligence

Multiple Intelligence

"It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts are how you are smart."

Have you ever sat in a class where you thought to yourself how much more you would get out of it if the teacher would incorporate something visual along with his/her lecture? Is the instructor aware that you may learn more effectively by looking at visuals rather than simply listening to him/her lecture for an hour? Or maybe it would help if you could physically create something in order to understand the subject that was being discussed? What is your primary intelligence? How can the knowledge of your personal learning style help you to become more knowledgeable? Can you utilize this knowledge both in and out of the classroom?

How is intelligence defined?

"It is the human ability to solve problems or to make something that is valued in one or more cultures. As long as we can find a culture that values an ability to solve a problem or create a product in a particular way, then I would strongly consider whether that ability should be considered intelligence"

The multiple intelligence theory suggests that all people possess at least eight different intelligences that operate in varying degrees depending upon each individual. The seven primary intelligences identified include linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence. The eighth, Naturalistic intelligence was not part of original framework but was added in 1996 to include those who excel in the realm of natural science. The general characteristics associated with each of these intelligences are described below.

• Linguistic intelligence - refers to an individual's capacity to use language effectively as a means of expression and communication through the written or spoken word (Examples: poets, writers, orators, and comedians. (for example: Shakespeare, Paulo Coelho, Ibn-e-Insha, Ashfaq Ahmed)

• Logical-Mathematical intelligence - refers to an individual's ability to recognize relationships and patterns between concepts and things, to think logically, to calculate numbers, and to solve problems scientifically and systematically. (Examples: mathematicians, economists, lawyers and scientists).

• Visual -Spatial intelligence - refers to the capability to think in images and orient oneself spatially. In addition, spatially intelligent people are able to graphically represent their visual and spatial ideas (Examples: artists, decorators, architects, pilots, sailors, surveyors, inventors, and guides. Some famous examples include: Picasso, Leonardo DaVinci, Sadequain and Amin Guljee).

• Musical intelligence - refers to the capacity to appreciate a variety of musical forms as well as being able to use music as a vehicle of expression. Musically intelligent people are perceptive to elements of rhythm, melody, and pitch (Examples: singers, musicians, and composers. Example: Adnan Sami, A.R Rehman, Shankar and loy, Gumby, Sameer).

• Bodily-Kinaesthetic intelligence - refers to the capacity of using one's own body skilfully as a means of expression or to work with one's body to create or manipulate objects (Examples: dancers, actors, athletes, sculptors, surgeons, mechanics, and craftspeople. Some famous examples include: Hritik Roshan, Michael Jackson, Julia Roberts, and Sheema Kirmani).

• Interpersonal (Social) intelligence - refers to the capacity to appropriately and effectively communicate with and respond to other people. The ability to work cooperatively with others and understand their feelings (Examples: sales people, politicians, religious leaders, talk show hosts, etc. Some famous examples include: Bill Clinton, Ghandi, Benazir Bhutto).

• Intrapersonal intelligence - refers to the capacity to accurately know one's self, including knowledge of one's own strengths, motivations, goals, and feelings. To be capable of self-reflection and to be introverted and contemplative are also traits held by persons with Intrapersonal intelligence. (Examples: entrepreneurs, therapists, philosophers, etc. Some famous examples include: Sigmund Freud – Father of Psychology, Bill Gates, and Plato).

• Naturalistic intelligence - refers to the ability to identify and classify the components that make up our environment. This intelligence would have been especially apt during the evolution of the human race in individuals who served as hunters, gatherers, and farmers. (Examples: botanists, farmers, etc. Some famous examples include: Charles Darwin, E.O. Wilson).

• Existential intelligence – refers to the ability to ask and examine questions about life, death, and ultimate realities. Individuals with strong existential intelligence enjoy, and have success working with complex theories. 

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