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Developing Team Cohesiveness and Motivation
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Developing Team Cohesiveness and
Motivation
Strategic Development cycle of a project team sub-culture
Dependant for its structure upon the corporate cultureAs corporate strategy changes the “team sub-
culture” becomes confused.Therefore timely inter-communication is key.
RealityMixture of conflicting values and perceptionsVery difficult to manageAll must be “on the same page of music” to capitalize
upon the dynamic within “team cohesiveness”
Strategic Development cycle of a project team sub-culture (Continued)
Goal: Orchestration – working together after seeing the “Big Picture”
Group Dynamic Stimulates OwnershipIs an input to motivation
Social Change and Project Management
Purpose:To extract principles helping us how to most
effectively initiate “team” vision, mission and personal purpose.
The Human Need for AchievementTheory by David C. McClelland, former
Harvard Sociologist says:
The Degree of Need for Achievement is Culturally learned
Sub-culturally based – family, town, neighborhood, associations
Hypothesis: Theoretically CONSISTENCY in the
management of a “team culture” coupled with COORDINATED CONSISTENCY in the strategic efforts and the administration of those efforts in both the corporate and team cultures can provide the environment in which a high level of “Need for Achievement” can be “manufactured” in employees.
Then productivity will increase, on-time project delivery and delivery within budget will become more prevalent.
The Question Can a “team culture” coupled with an
organizational culture “manufacture” a high level of the drive to achieve, in its members?
If so, how?
High level of “n Achievement” = a High Level of Self- Motivation
Purpose:Helping the individual team members to “take
ownership” of their piece of the project.
Needed recognition of team member responsibilities.
As an “owner” of their piece of the project, the individual team members will have a personal stake in seeing the project to completion in the most Excellent fashion especially as on-time and within budget completion looks to be an ominous goal.
Social Change: Historical Examples
Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
Thomas Jefferson – Writer of the US Constitution
Dr. Martin Luther King and Civil Rights.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy and landing on the moon.
What qualities are in common among these people?
Common Qualities: Initiators of Social Change
How: Through challenge.
Ingredients:A team of people united in a common cause.
Help the teamTo “see” the Big Picture.
Corporate strategy
To recognize the importance of their “Puzzle Piece”
Where their piece of the project fits into both team and corporate strategies, vision and mission.
Major Points in “The Manufacture” of a Team Culture that evoke Achievement:
Order enforced with rules, values, mores.Cultural consistency.
Communication.Program, Policies and Procedure Development
and Administration.Rewards.Recognition.Responsibility advances must be warranted by
performance.
High “N Achievement” characteristics
Individual is motivated by a challenge.Evokes creativity in problem solving.Achievement provides self-satisfaction.Individual will seek a greater challenge.Not motivated as much by money as Lower N
Achievers.May thrive upon “Recognition”.
Team Management
To inform the team
To motivate individuals
To direct individuals
What are the “take-away” ideas?
The culturally developed need for achievement can be “manufactured” within our project teams.
Theoretically, we can manage communications between both the corporate organization and the team, in order to achieve consistent optimal results.
Help “team members” see the “Big Picture” – to see how their contribution is integral to the performance of the whole.
Consistency in administration of policy.
“Take-away” ideas (Continued)
Team culture and corporate culture must be synergistic.
Encourage contribution of ideas – new ways of accomplishing a task, new policies, new procedures.
Idea presentation: Teach the team how to clearly document the expected benefits of an idea.
The corporate culture, in tandem with the team, should encourage and recognize employee contributions.
This is necessary in order create consistency and to support efforts that strive to create an environment which is conducive to the “manufacture” of High Levels of the Need for Achievement.
Expected Benefits:FOR THE TEAM:Projects consistently delivered on-time and
within budget.Project requirements consistently met or
exceeded.
FOR CORPORATE:Profit increases.Employee productivity increases.Competitive advantage.
SUGGESTED READING # 1The Achieving Society by David C.
McClellandISBN: 0-02-920510-7Can be ordered at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=David%20C.%20McClelland
Suggested Reading # 2Building the Empire State:A rediscovered 1930s notebook charts the
construction of the Empire State Building ISBN: 0-393-73030-1 Can be ordered at:
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Empire-Norton-Architects-Designers/dp/0393730301/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1223990947&sr=11-1
I believe that all Project Managers should read this book.They will be enabled to both extract and explore the 1930s
socio-psychological factors that fostered intra-project coordination among workers, planners, vendors, stakeholders, architects and project management. Thereby, I believe that today's project managers will be provided the "tools" to identify human need factors.
Via application of social-psychological findings regarding the human group dynamic, results can be applied to help resolve current challenges.
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