In your first assignment, you analyzed and wrote about the trends you observed within the High Performing Work Teams (HPWT) survey. You also discussed what you and your colleagues would learn from taking such a survey. Some of what you learned by working through the assignment was that the survey and the grouping of the questions provide a good model for the elements required to facilitate team efficiency and effectiveness. The mission provides a statement of the team's purpose which provides the motivation and direction for team members. The goals are the results the team needs to achieve within specified time frames. Team members perform more efficiently and productively when the goals are easily understood. In addition to goals, role clarification helps team members understand what is expected of each person in order for the team to achieve its goals. By discussing roles the team ensures that all the responsibilities for achieving the team's goals are covered and being performed. HPWTs also decide early on the "rules of engagement," or how they are going to work together. They determine things like how and when they are going to communicate; the frequency of meetings; how disagreements and conflict will be handled; and how to handle social loafing, when team members don't do their fair share of the work