Course

Building Effective Teams

6 Lessons

Everyone would enjoy being on the dream team. That’s a group of performers each skilled in his/her own specialties, pulling together accomplishing greater things than the added total of each performing separately. Most organizations talk teams, but primarily reward individual achievement. They also attract and promote people who sometimes resist the idea of tying their performance to that of others. But teams, although uncomfortable to some, are the best way to accomplish integrated tasks like creating systems, producing complex products or sustained coordinated efforts. They are also useful in cutting across boundaries to get things done. The key to successful team building lies in identifying roles, jobs, tasks, rewards, and objectives with the team, not with individuals.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
– Michael Jordan, U.S. basketball player

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
– John Wooden, U.S. college basketball coach

 

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