If you are going to lead a team, you should understand how teams work, how to team build, and group dynamics. The material in this section isn't about leadership per se but supports building better teams through understanding team issues.
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By Arnold Bateman
- EXCELLENT! Team building is an effort in which a team studies its own process of working together and acts to create a climate that encourages and values the contributions of team members. Their energies are directed toward problem solving, task effectiveness, and maximizing the use of all members' resources to achieve the team's purpose. Sound team building recognizes that it is not possible to fully separate one's performance from those of others
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- In 1965, Bruce Tuckman developed a simple four-stage model of team development that has become an accepted part of thinking about how teams develop. In his article, "Developmental Sequence in Small Groups," Tuckman outlines four stages of team development: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. A successful team knows which stage they are in, and manages transitions between the different stages adeptly.
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By Robert Bacal
- If you recognize the need for team development, and are planning some activities for that purpose, you should have some idea of the pitfalls of team building, and how to go about it.
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By Russ Giles
- In an older, more rugged-individualist business model, the word 'team' was seldom used. There were departments, managers and staffs, even secretarial pools, but not many teams. However, today 'team' and 'team player' are spread all over corporations like ketchup at a truck stop cafe.
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By Art Kleiner
- For the past decade or so, there has been a great hunger in the business world for corporations to take on the ambiance (along with the politics, the economics, and the morality) of a small-town community. Why can't we set things up around here, business leaders ask, so people bring a volunteer spirit and energy to work? Why
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