Human resources - Assignment Example

The primary step in determining whether team building is needed or not in a particular organisation is need assessment. In the need assessment exercise, the organisation will have to be visited and discussions must be held with different level of employees. The objective of this exercise is to understand the team dynamics which exists within the organisation. Perceptions about leadership, work share and team structure will have to be analysed. The productivity of different teams against the desired level of performance will have to be checked.

A large gap in this towards the negative side will give indications that there are issues in team dynamics. Interpersonal skills of different level of employees must be observed and analysed randomly. A lower level of interpersonal skills in more number of employees is indicative towards the need of team building. After the need assessment, the next step is checking the adaptability of existing training modules within the organisational structure of the department to be trained. A general approach must include trainings on interpersonal skills, leadership skills, communication skills and ‘motivation’.

The need assessment should develop a picture on how the employees are going to perceive the activities and content of each of these modules. Motivation and aspiration of employees are two important factors to be considered while planning a team building training. The hierarchical structure of employees is also to be understood before finalising the need of team building training. The observations out of this need assessment exercise can be used to decide whether team building is needed or not.

Thus any request for team building training must be preceded by a need assessment. However, it is advisable to brief the organisation with the structure of the training and the importance of need assessment before committing the training.