Building Team Cohesion at the Workplace: A Comprehensive Guide

Just like in every recipe, there is the key ingredient and without that key ingredient, the recipe can never be at its full potential. Team Cohesion is one of the most important ingredients you need for making a recipe for a very high-performing, efficient, and hard-working team in the office. Today Team Cohesion is not just a nice-to-have feature it’s a must-have feature team Cohesion is not just the sunroof in your car it’s like the engine of the car, it can’t move without one.

What is Team Cohesion

Team Cohesion can be defined as a type of well-knit family, it’s not like you are working with strangers or people having different agendas, Team Cohesion means people have a sense of belonging, have common goals, and communicate with each other efficiently and work in a synchronized manner. Everything works in such a way that nothing needs to be added, altered, or taken away; it’s just perfection, just like a well-oiled machine.

4 Benefits of Team Cohesion

Team Cohesion can be defined as a binding spell for all the magicians (work wizards: employees) who are working in an organization. Team Cohesion results in a lot of good things, a few of which are mentioned here.

1. Improved, Seamless and Clear Communication:

When there is Team Cohesion in the organization misunderstandings don’t occur, there are no wrong decisions because of lack of Communication, planning, and understanding stays very crisp and clear, and the overall work efficiency increases.

2. Mood Upliftment:

When there is a sense of brotherhood and Unity among the team they have a sense of belonging and this provides more job satisfaction and creates an overall positive work environment which results in better performance.

3. Productivity Skyrockets:

In an organization where Team Cohesion is an integral part, challenges are handled together, achievements are credited together, learnings happen together and there is an overall increase in productivity.

4. Innovation:

Team Cohesion results in better collaborations that bring in different thought processes and an amalgam of different thoughts and ideas results in creativity. It makes the team members feel free to share their ideas. And ideas can change life!!

How to Enhance Team Cohesion

1. Have Defined Goals:  When the roles are clearly defined people have a vision, they can see out of the window the broader Horizon, when there are defined goals people know what they have to do. As we know every note plays its part in a Symphony. The same is the case with teams where every member does something to make the project perfect. With defined goals, people find themselves important and attached to the Bigger goals.
2. Introduce the Concept of Transparent, Open Communication: In an environment where transplant and open communications are appreciated. People feel that their voice is heard, they feel important. This can be in regular meetings or open forums where people get a chance to express themselves. And all suggestions should be heard prudently for the overall refinement of the process. Transparent communication results in Team Cohesion.
3. Team Building and Team Shuffling: There should be regular team building sessions and team shuffling sessions where people communicate with people from different teams and interact with them. It brings in a Universal sense of Brotherhood among the whole organization which is a must for team cohesive. With the help of tools like DeskTrack, you can always know how to align different people with different productivity in one picture.
4. Rewards and Cognitions: The most important thing for Team Cohesion is acknowledging an achievement. No matter if the achievement is big or small, appreciation should always be there by the management, when people feel appreciated they have a feeling of gratitude and they do more in that direction. Software like desk track helps you to understand who are your most productive and valuable employees and can help you understand who deserves the appreciation.
5. Positive Work Environment: A positive work environment helps people to grow, people deliver more when they love to come to the office in an environment that promotes the culture of mutual respect, trust.

Role of DeskTrack to Increase Team Cohesion

Most people think that DeskTrack is just a tool to monitor employee productivity, and workplace Analytics on the other hand DeskTrack is a tool that helps in the holistic growth of an organization catering to different aspects at the same time it can be used as a tool that helps in enhancing Team cohesive.

Things DeskTrack can do to enhance workplace Team Cohesion.

• Efficient Time Tracking: With the help of DeskTrack management can track where the time of the team members is being spent, and what the problems they are facing this helps in understanding and identifying the bottleneck and helps in the overall optimization of the workflows
• The Status of Different Projects can be Tracked: With the help of DeskTrack the progress report of the team on a specific project can be tracked with the contribution and collaboration of each member with the help of this kind of data opportunities for collaboration can be identified and can be made sure that the whole team is on the same page and better resource utilization can be done which in general enhances Team Cohesion.
• Report Customization: Customized reports can be generated where the management can see reports on the various parameters such as the time duration individual employees are working or any other parameter with the help of these customized reports data-driven decisions can be made which helps in Team cohesive.
• Attendance Reports: With the help of a DeskTrack accurate attendance reports can be provided with the help of which you know people are present and engaged which on the one hand promotes accountability and on the other hand Team cohesive.

Conclusion

With all these things in mind, it is safe to conclude that Team Cohesion in the workplace is one of the most important things that should be enhanced at any cost.
For great success in business and for building Team Cohesive great attention should be paid to the 3 C’s: Communication, Collaboration and Credit.

All these three things can be tracked with the help of all the productive features of DeskTrack to elevate your team dynamics Bring in unity and Team Cohesion.