- Team - a cohesive coalition of people working together to achieve mutual goals, committed to a common purpose; having complementary skills, performance goals and they are mutually accountable for the end results.
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Uses
- Complex goals
- Combine skill-sets
- To get results
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Properties
- Take collaborative action
- Paid on shared outcomes
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Interdependent
- Pooled
- Sequential
- Outcome
- or highly Independent
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Accomplish
- Production
- Idea generation
- Problem solving
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Composition
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Belbin
- Planter
- Monitor Evaluator
- Co-ordinators
- Resource Investigators
- Implementers
- Completer Finishers
- Teamworkers
- Shapers
- Specialist
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Parker
- Contributor - Task
- Collaborator - Goal
- Communicator - Process
- Challenger - Question
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Team Role Typology
- Task Roles
- Social Roles
- Boundary Roles
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Types
- Task force
- Product development
- Virtual
- Cross-functional
- Top management
- Self-managed
- Traditional
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Functions
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Contracts
- Values, goals, roles, leaders, decision making, communication and performance
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Meetings
- Preparation
- Punctual
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Barriers
- Don't know where to begin
- Lack of direction
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People
- Dominating members
- Poor performers
- Lack of motivation
- Poorly managed conflict