How To Create Effective Teams
“Teams cannot be created, they must be built.” -Vivette Payne What is an effective team? Although the terms “team” and “group” are used as synonyms, they are in fact distinct in their definitions. Team vs Group “ A workgroup is a number of persons usually reporting to a common superior and having some face to face interaction, who have some degree of interdependence in carrying out tasks. For the purpose of achieving organisational goals.” A group’s performance depends on what the members do as individuals. The result is the summation of each group member’s individual contribution. They lack positive synergy in a group that would create an overall level of performance that is greater than the sum of the inputs. Teams, on the other hand, include both individual results as well as collective work products. In a team, positive synergy is created through coordinated efforts. The team’s performance is greater than th...