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The Key Components of Virtual Teams
Virtual teams effectively deal with the realities of time compression, distributed resources, increasing dependency on knowledge-based input, a premium on flexibility and adaptability, and the fact...
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A Team’s Foundation is Built Upon Structure and Focus
Teams can encounter many problem areas during their tenure, but most challenges arise during the establishment of the team. Without a strong foundation that includes a focus, a mission, rules,...
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How Personal Agendas Can Destroy a Team
When a team does not worry about generating positive results, it will never function as effectively as it can. One reason is because members will resort to performing roles and taking stances that tend...
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A Systematic Approach is Required to Structure Your Teams
Leaders should be cognizant of the fact that teams do not evolve automatically, and that the only things that do in the organizational environment are disorder, friction and poor performance. Effective...
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Overcoming and Preventing Groupthink
Overcoming and preventing groupthink tendencies requires leaders’ constant diligence and continual attention. For constructive thinking to occur within team environments, individuals must possess high...
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Communication Starts With Respecting What Others Have To Say
It is important for leaders to understand that before teams can learn to communicate effectively, team members must first learn to communicate by each respecting what the other has to say. Leaders will...
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Team Members Support One Another, Collaborate Freely and Communicate Openly
Teams have many traits that distinguish them from groups. They are normally chartered to fulfill a specific organizational purpose. The most distinguishing characteristic of a team is that its members...
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Personal Behavioral Patterns Can Interrupt Contact Between Team Members
Each individual member has a complex series of relationships within a team. Most of these relationships are one-to-one with other team members. However, it should be noted that individual members also...
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Empowerment Is Not Synonymous With Surrender
It is easy for leaders to begin surrendering their personal authority as they actively work to empower team members. Many assume that individual teams are automatically able to meet the...
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Producing Better Decision-Making That Results in More Positive Outcomes
Good decision-making is facilitated by open and effective team communication that allows teams to consider all perspectives and points of view. The synergy of the team allows it to make decisions and...
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How Personal Agendas Can Destroy a Team
Teams are unlike work groups. They are an assembly of people who are committed to balanced participation, equal contribution and regular deliberation. The ideas and abilities of individual team members...
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The Key Components of Virtual Teams
Virtual teams effectively deal with the realities of time compression, distributed resources, increasing dependency on knowledge-based input, a premium on flexibility and adaptability, and the fact...
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