Building Successful Teams

The article provides useful ideas on how to build successful teams, particularly by paying close attention to team size and composition, providing accountability, and using periodic check-ins to gauge how the team is progressing. It also talks more about team building and small group formation. It is important to lay the groundwork for successful teams at the very outset.

Setting Team Goals and Providing Team Feedback

Periodic performance assessments help a team identify areas for improvement so it can better achieve its goals.


Learning Objectives

Apply effective performance management procedures to the process of goal setting and feedback


Key Takeaways


Key Points
  • How a team functions is as important an indicator of its performance as the quality of what it produces.
  • Periodic assessments help a team identify its strengths and weakness and create plans to improve how members work together.
  • Methods of collecting assessment data include discussions, surveys, and personality diagnostic tests.

Key Terms
  • performance: The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; achievement; accomplishment.
  • implement: To bring about; to put into practice.
  • feedback: Critical assessment of information produced.

Source: Boundless.com, https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-management/chapter/building-successful-teams/
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