FUNCTIONAL / SILO PARADIGM AND TEAMS

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Team Building — Functional / Silo Paradigm and Teams

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Functional / Silo Paradigm—a feature of many organisations (and already the focus of other change initiatives) is the tendency of operations to be functionally oriented. People are accustomed to working within a silo, as opposed to across silos, or "cross-functionally." Objectives and performance measures focus on the silo, or for what that particular function as an independent unit is accountable. This issue has less to do with the deployment of teams within the functional area, as feasibly that should be relatively easy. It has more to do with the prevailing organisational operating paradigm: resources are concentrated within, not across functions. This makes communicating with them and measuring their performance easier. This "control model" permits efficiency within the silo, but undermines effectiveness across silos. It promotes independence and competition; as opposed to collaboration and unity, conditions required for effective team work.


Other topics in our resources on Team Building related to Functional / Silo Paradigm and Teams include: 
 
  • Team Building
  • Empowerment (Enablement)
  • Group Dynamics
  • Skills and Knowledge
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  • Effective Team Building
  • Hierarchy and Teams
  • Operationalising
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  • Autonomous Work Groups (AWG)
  • Risks and Risk Mitigations
  • Silo Paradigm
  • Team Critical Success Factors (CSF)

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