 Hello friends, I am Mrs. Gita Dhundarwal, assistant professor of communication skills department of humanities and sciences, Walshchan Institute of Technology, Sholapu. In this session, today we are going to discuss about the most important topic soft skills and in this soft skills, we are discussing about team building. At the end of this session, student will be able to understand the concept of team building. It is said that coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress and working together is success. So, definitely to become a successful, you should work in a team. So, let us discuss what is a team. Take a pause, think about the question and try to write the answer. So, team. A team is a group of people who are mutually dependent on one another to achieve a common goal. Team means T stands for training, E stands for encourage, A stands for aim and M stands for motivation. All of you know this proverb, united we stand divided we fall. So, it is very important to build a team. People in every workplace talk about building the team, working as a team and my team. But few understand how to create the experience of teamwork or how to develop an effective team. Belonging to a team in the broadest sense is a result of feeling part of something larger than yourself. It has a lot to do with your understanding of the mission or objectives of your organization. When a group works well together, it achieves the best results. Employers therefore want to hire people with team building skills. What team builders are able to help groups work together well and meet their goals. So, let us discuss why team building is important. Team building is important because it leads mind to creativity. It encourages to take initiatives and display your creativity and innovations. It provides space to individual growth. It broadens one's vision. We feel motivated to come out of the comfort zone and do things in the out of box manner. It improves your networking, socializing and team bonding. It also gives a chance getting to know each other. It also teaches the team self-regulation strategies. It motivates a team and getting everyone on the same page including goal setting. So, team building. Team building is the process of turning a group of individuals into a cohesive team. A group of people organize to work together interdependently and cooperatively to meet the goals by ensuring self-development, positive communication, leadership skills and ability to work closely as a team to solve problems. Team building is termed for various types of activities used to enhance social relations and define roles within teams often involving collaborative tasks. Some seeds are very important for team building. So, first one is clear expectations, then commitment, contribution, collaboration, communication and coordination. So, all these points we are going to discuss in detail. So, the first point is clear expectations. Executive leadership should clearly communicate its expectations for the team's performance and expected outcomes. The work of the team should receive sufficient emphasis as a priority in terms of the time, discussion, attention and interest directed its way by executive leaders. Next is commitment. Commitment to the intent and ethics of a company provides a clear sense of focus. Once team members understand how their work fits into the company objectives and that their goals are achievable, individuals are ready to put aside personal needs for the benefit of the team, department or company. Once a shared purpose is agreed upon, each team can develop goalposts and focus on continually improving. Time spent getting all team members on the same page will reduce the chances of disasters at a later stage. Then contribution is the ability of a successful team is directly related to the skills the team members own and the ingenuity the team members apply. Work teams need people who have good work abilities and social skills and are willing to learn. Teams also need leaders who will take responsibility for getting things done. Next point is collaboration. Employers believe that highly collaborative teams will achieve greater productivity, higher moral, less counter-productive conflict and better customer relations. To understand group and team process, understand the roles and responsibilities of team members. The team should use an appropriate strategy to accomplish its action plan. Next point is communication. If you are helping to unite a team, you need to have strong communication skills using both written and verbal communication skills. You will have to explain company goals, delegate tasks, resolve conflicts between members and more. It is important that you are able to clearly express ideas in ways that others can understand. Cooperation and cooperation. Teams are coordinated by a central leadership team that assists the groups to obtain what they need for success. Priorities and resource allocation being planned across departments. Cooperation most tasks in the workplace require much more than one person doing it all. Success in a company depends upon a degree of interdependence within the team. Team leaders can encourage cooperation by stressing the influence of individual members on team productivity. Let us discuss some of the key factors of team building. So key factors to successful performance. The first is strategy, second one is clear roles and responsibilities. Next is open communication and the last one is effective leadership. So first point strategy. It includes clarity in understanding the responsibilities, major individuals reason and share purpose, values and ground rules. Next point is clear roles and responsibilities. Clear definition of roles and responsibilities shared by all. You will need to understand the concerns of every members so that they each feel that they are being considered and appreciated. Next one is open communication. Respect for individual differences and open communication environment among team members is very necessary. Cooperation plays a large role in enabling work group to reach its full capacity. Team members must be able to say what they think, ask for help and share new ideas. This can only happen in an environment where team members trust one another and focus on solutions and not problems. The last point is effective leadership. Effective leader can draw out skills of the team and help them to achieve objective or goals and the best example is the movie Chakde India and it has given a good message. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. These are some of the links whatever I have used for making my PPT. Go through all these references. Thank you.