Category: Teamwork & Leadership
As a team leader or procurement manager, you should know there are several major steps that you can go through to organize a productive procurement group which is able to accomplish tasks and duties in a collaborative environment. Let’s get a more detailed look at procurement team management steps.
A procurement team structure refers to a composition of roles, duties and responsibilities of the team members. It identifies the key positions that provide successful purchasing management process. The structure of a procurement group will generally depend on several key factors around an enterprise that is going to order procurement items for a project.
In this guide, I talk about the definition and responsibilities of procurement teams and their role in project and supply management environments.
Team building is neither just a single event nor an activity that can be undertaken by someone outside the team. Team building and organization is a complex of tasks and actions which a team leader needs to step through in order to do team building exercises, select team members, define team objectives and commitment, establish teamwork, overcome issue and undertake team building problem solving activities. It is the primary responsibility of a manager who takes care of leading the group.
Today most business organizations involved in project management prefer building virtual teams and remote groups for managing outsourced projects and overseas activities. Virtual team management appears to be the way to organize and coordinate the activities of team members being in different locations. The importance of virtual team management and building takes the primary role when there’s a need to control the effort and time of remote workers.