Team Development
High-performing teams rarely develop by chance. Like any other living thing, they thrive when tended, cultivated, nurtured. Teamwork is thus developmental: as members move through well-documented phases, they transform themselves from a loose collection of individuals to a single creative force, united by a shared commitment to their task. And yet they remain themselves, bringing their own knowledge and skills to the team's work.
Effective consultants and team leaders know the phases of team development and create opportunities for team members to discuss and resolve the issues that define each phase. Leaders also have mastered a set of bedrock skills essential for guiding a team's development (click on the pdf file button). And as the team grows in maturity, leaders serve as models for sharing leadership, so that the team ultimately becomes self-managing. My Approaches to Team Development
