Team building 'one of the most important skills'

Date: 05/08/2009

Leaders must have a real semblance of team building skills if they are to be successful in any working environment, according to an expert on the subject.

Susan M Heathfield, About.com's primary writer for human resource matters, explained that generational differences in the workplace will always throw up difficulties in being able to effectively manage everyone at once.

Many people may mislead themselves into thinking that they are personally effective in the office but much of the time this is because they can be working with "a generation of individualists who stayed with their employer" and "worked long hours", Ms Heathfield continued.

She asserted that most people are willing to embrace team building skills, so management may want to organise team building conferences to play to this desire and work for the benefit of the company.

Ms Heathfield is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the American Society for Training and Development, writing for many leading bodies including Cornell University, an Ivy League institution. ADNFCR-2060-ID-19278968-ADNFCR

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