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Prerequisites of Group and Team Effectiveness
A: Commitment to Achieving a Common Purpose
For which all members hold themselves mutually accountable.B: Shared Approach
Core values, philosophy and desired culture (expressed and understood behaviourally).
Leadership and its behavioural components (leadership practices).
Processes for planning, managing and improving performance.
Team development.
Decision making.
Problem solving.C: Complementary Skills
Functional/professional.
Group-work facilitation.
Personal and interpersonal (including performance feedback and conflict resolution).Common to all areas
Systematic monitoring of performance, learning and improvement.
NB: A "team" is usefully defined as "A small number of people who are committed to a common, team specific purpose for which team members hold themselves mutually accountable, have complementary skills, share a common approach, systematically monitor and improve their own performance and whose collective outputs combined, exceed those possible from the sum of the individual parts." (Adapted from The Wisdom of Teams, J Katzenbach & D K Smith.)
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