Seeking Organizational Integration

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives

Overview/Description
 This course describes three symptoms of fragmentation that teams may display- Tunnel vision, Rejecting New Members and Team Isolation from Management and offers prescriptions for each symptom. It is important for teams to seek organizational integration; otherwise they will fragment. Learners can take two action steps- one; promote greater interaction with their coaches, and two; plan welcoming packages to integrate new members into their teams. The course emphasizes the importance of integrating customers into teams.

Target Audience
 Team leaders, Project managers, supervisors, managers and team members with less than three years in a team role.

Expected Duration
2 hours

Lesson Objectives:

The Need for Organizational Integration

  • recognize the value of achieving organizational integration for teams.
  • identify the reasons for team fragmentation.
  • identify the roles a coach can play when a team is fragmenting.
  • identify the rights that a coach can use while stepping in to coach fragmented teams.

    • Fragmentation: Symptoms and Prescriptions

  • recognize the advantages of correctly diagnosing symptoms of fragmentation in teams.
  • identify the correct prescriptive steps to overcome tunnel vision.
  • identify the correct prescriptive steps to overcome the team's rejection of new members.
  • identify the correct prescriptive steps to overcome the team's feelings of isolation.

    • Organizational Integration and Customers

  • recognize the value of integrating customers into teams.
  • identify the different ways customers can be integrated into teams.
  • recognize the extended definition of a team's customers.

    • Course Number: TEAM0108