Four Elements of building an effective team

The term "team" is used so loosely that it is often meaningless, so let's start with a basic definition: a "team" is two or more persons who share responsibility for a common goal, and whose efforts benefit goal of coordination and communication. It 's only worth investing time and effort into building a team when there is a specific and real return on this investment -. "Working Group" the most successful delivery of objectives, otherwise what you have is a

From this basic definition, here are four key elements necessary to build an effective team:

1. Team is authorized by the leadership and given clear objectives, expectations and parameters.

2. Leadership provides the necessary resources - set of skills and the availability of team members, budget, access to critical information and stakeholders, etc.

3. Free flow of information - dissent and conflict are received and resolved in a constructive way.

4. Team meets (or exceeds) its objectives, and contribute to organizational knowledge and talent pool, while creating job satisfaction.

The first role of leadership team is to ensure that the group includes parameters that are given, and that has the power within these parameters to make decisions and act. A team must have full authority to do what he wants to do, but it needs to have some room to move, and needs to know how much space you have.

A common mistake in building the team is "throwing the organic to the problem." Having "enough" people to work on the objectives is meaningless if it does not have the necessary skills to what is asked of them. This is a second vital role of leadership to ensure that a team has the right skills and resources to fulfill its mission, including apparatus skills, available time, budget and access to stakeholders and information.

Another pre-requisite of an effective team is the free and unfettered flow of information between team members, through the leadership team. Surprisingly, the signal that the information is actually flowing freely enough to sustain an effective team is something that many teams avoid: conflict. If the information is really flowing freely, the atmosphere is full of contrasts, varying points of view, and - yes - conflict. Teams that put too much emphasis on harmony, getting along, or unit of thought is unlikely to think broadly enough to be very creative or effective.

A fifth and final element of effective teams is the output. Obviously, a team must meet or exceed its stated objectives. But beyond that, it makes an effective team in order to strengthen the organization in the long term with the addition of institutional knowledge, people development and deepen the talent pool, creating satisfaction and company loyalty, team etc. they are making their goals, but they are burning people out, creating high turnover, etc. cost to society for longer than they contribute. Building and maintaining an effective team requires monitoring and distribution of these types of "persons" and outputs the fulfillment of objectives .......