There are three common types of teams, such as departmental or functional team, cross-functional team and self-managing team.
Departmental or functional teams: Groups of people from the same work area or department, who meet on a regular basis to analyze customer needs, solve problems, provide members with support, promote continuous improvement, and share information.
Cross-functional teams: Groups of people who are pulled together from across departments or job functions to deal with a specific product, issue, customer, problem, or to improve a particular process.
Self-managing teams: Groups of people who gradually assume responsibility for self-direction in all aspects of work.
Team may also be in two types, such as formal team for example committee, informal team for example task forces and problem-solving teams.
Committee is formal team that usually has a long life span and can become a permanent part of the organization structure. It deals mainly with regularly recurring tasks, such as an executive committee that meets monthly to plan strategy and review results.
Problem-solving teams and task forces are informal teams that assemble to resolve specific issues and then disband once their goal has been accomplished. Such teams are often cross-functional, pulling together people from a variety of departments with different area of expertise and responsibility.
Whatever the purpose and function of the team, you and you fellows team member must be able to communicate effectively with each other and with people outside your team.
In team, even though one may have a specific job function and he may belong to a specific department but be unified with other organization members to perform and accomplish the overall objectives. Individuals are involved in a team in the consensus decision to proceed, analyze particular types of problems, and resolve them to promote the organization in the continuous level, to share information and team has unlimited possibilities to succeed if it is well-organized and proceeded to the end. The overall success of the organization depends on successful team building and accomplishing and acquiring the goals. This is why many team building seminars, team meetings, teamwork activities are arranged and considered and focused.
