A lot goes into the planning and designing of an effective team, but more important is getting what you need out of the team. The goal of the team has to be clear to all of the members, so that they may work together to achieve this goal. One of the most important factors to building an effective team is figuring out what each member’s strengths and weaknesses are. Even though you are building teams it is still important to have individual goals for each member that will help make it worth the time and effort for everyone. You can not build an effective team with out everyone having trust in the other members.

Building and effective team is a difficult task that many can not perform with out a little hard work, time, and effort. Every team should meet most of the following goals that I call the team building check list (Francis and Young. 1979).

• High level of interdependence among team members

• Team leader has good people skills and is committed to team approach

• Each team member is willing to contribute

• Team develops a relaxed climate for communication

• Team members develop a mutual trust

• Team and individuals are prepared to take ri

• Team has capacity to create new ideas

Bob Hugel Scholastic Choices, Oct 2001 v17 i2 p28 (2)

To help a team solve goals in a timely manner the team should make sure that they are organized, and this should be accomplished by the team leader. If the team leader has the ability to help organize the team then they will be able to keep themselves on time, and in line with that they need to have done. If the individuals have good organizational skills this will make the job for the team leader easier, so he will be able to focus more on different problems. Keeping a team on schedule is one of the most important concepts to achieving the team’s goal, because if teams can not Finnish within the allotted time frame then all the work and effort the team put in will go to waste.

* Give thought to the reasonableness of the timing of each step

Steps to the development of goals can be accomplished in different ways; however, they all follow a structure of sorts. Having a structure that feels comfortable to each individual is very important, but accomplishing the goals themselves is even more important. This is where taking the correct steps should become a great focus. One plan or example of this would be.

• Each team member knows he can influence the team agenda

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