What makes teams healthy and effective? I’ve learned there are some shared traits among the ones with which I’ve worked.
Obviously this is our goal if we lead or even serve on a team. Who would want to serve on an unhealthy team? Talk about wasting time.
We’ve all been there. It may be a permanent team or a temporary team, but we’ve all served on teams, which simply weren’t productive. The team didn’t gel as a group. There wasn’t a chemistry and nothing really gets accomplished. If it does it’s not necessarily through a team effort. Some pull their weight and others don’t. A few weigh in on decisions. Some never do: either by choice or by organizational design.
Unhealthy.
So, what are common elements in all the effective and healthy teams? These are my observations.
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