Business what makes a good team

Previous Next. View Larger Image. By: Amy Vokoun-Lutter Success. Trust within the team — successful communication happens when teammates can be open and honest with each other. Trusting your team can open the flow of communication so you are comfortable sharing information and feelings with one another.

Leaders with strong communication — proactive, transparent and genuine leaders can help direct their teams to success.

While openness and sharing between a team member and a leader may not come naturally, a good leader will recognize that and work to facilitate a team environment where sharing ideas and working collaboratively is encouraged. Team members who embrace their roles — A successful team has a shared understanding of what their individual focus and initiatives should be.

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Here are some surefire ways to build a team that will work together and produce results. If challenge and questioning is seen as something positive, to be encouraged because it is being done in a positive way , then, equally, learning and development, change and difference will become less threatening. This can be one of hardest things for a team to learn. Of course, if an individual has been successful, credit should be where credit is due.

But if you want to be creating an environment where employees feel able, and are encouraged, to do their best work collaboratively, then the result — success — needs very much to be seen, and celebrated, as a team effort. Alongside this, there needs to be an environment of co-ownership and accountability to each other. Facebook Twitter. Featured What makes a good team great? The six characteristics of successful teams.

What makes a good team great? Thriving teams are focused on, and understand, the vision If, as the team leader, you have successfully clearly articulated the vision — the goal, the purpose — that the team needs to be aiming for, then it stands to reason it is likely to be more focused and directed towards that. Individual performance objectives allow individual team members to focus on achieving the common goal.

Each team member should be willing to accept individual and mutual responsibility for projects they work on and take common ownership of issues that arise. A diverse team of individuals from a range of cultural and professional backgrounds can help encourage innovation and debate within a team environment.

Putting together a team that consists of both realists and idealists who are not afraid to put forward their ideas and suggestions and discuss their relative merits and pitfalls will create an environment where problems can be discussed openly and solutions brainstormed fearlessly.

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