WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE TEAM?
For a team to be effective, some rules must be obeyed:
- Its members have clear goals that everyone is committed to
- It has a coordinator who leads by example and not by adopting an autocratic style
- Members feel free to choose the manner in which they want to complete the task they were given
- Decisions are made in group
- Information gets to everybody
- Members impose high standards on themselves
- Members increase their level of self-discipline
- Members recognize each other’s contribution to the project
WHAT IS A TEAM?
A group is a set of people with individual goals and who happen to share the same boss, or the same workplace, or partake in the same organizational unit. In a group, people might even have the same goals – for example, the members of a sales team might have the same target to meet, but they may also compete against each other rather than cooperate.
A team is a group of people working together to complete a single, common task. In fact, each member might have individual goals, but these goals contribute to the higher collective one – for example, in a sales team, one person might schedule meetings, another one might prepare the necessary documentation and a third one might actually sale the product, but all of them contributed to the sale and they are not evaluated for their individual accomplishments.
WHAT IS TEAM BUILDING?
Team Building is the process of improving collective performance. It transforms a group into a team, or an already existing team into a better one.
- Versiunea in Romana
