22 FEBRUARY 2017

6 REQUIREMENTS FOR TURNING A WORK GROUP INTO A TEAM!

6 Requirements for Turning a Work Group into a Team!

In the words of Kristi Hedges, in an article published by Forbes, “leaders spend a sizeable portion of their time focused on improving their teams. They want their teams to perform better, innovate more, resolve conflict, and independently solve any problem that emerges.”

6 Requirements for Turning a Work Group into a Team!

But what exactly do we mean when we talk about a team?

As Hedges points out, we might refer to an organisation’s sales representatives as a sales ‘team’.

But if they work independently, covering their own territories and only engaging with each other at their annual conference, do they really constitute a team?

The members of a real team need to have:• A common commitment, a shared sense

of purpose• Agreed performance goals• Complementary skills• A clearly assigned role• A willingness to communicate• Accepted a genuinely mutual

accountability

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