Managers and employees can be trained to become better team players and leaders. But you can’t rush the change process, which we discuss before training. It is difficult to manage change. You can’t take an organization or group and turn it into a team overnight. You need to carefully take the team through the stages of development.

Organizations offer ongoing training to benefit both employees and the organization. An organizational development (OD) team-building program is also very helpful in turning groups into teams with the help of a change agent. The roles of the group manager (directive leadership) and team leader (empowering leadership) are different. The group manager takes responsibility for performing the four functions of management.

Team leaders empower members to take responsibility for performing the management functions and focus on developing effective group structure and group process and on furthering group development. To make the transition, group managers need the attitude of understanding that they are not more important than the rest of the team and that they need to be a team member.