Seven Ways to Build Effective Teams

High$-$performance teams lead to stronger work units and better team performance. There are seven essential considerations when trying to build a

group into an effective team. This activity is important because building high$-$performance teams requires work on the part of managers, but the payoff is

substantial.

The goal of this activity is to challenge your knowledge of the seven ways to build effective teams.

Match the method for building effective teams that each scenario best exemplifies.

Norms: unwritten

rules for team

members

Motivation through

mutual

accountability and

interdependence

$5$

interdependence

$2$

Team composition

Performance goals

and feedback

$3$

Collaboration

Trust

Roles: how team

members are

expected to behave

Match each of the options above to the items below.

Dominique focuses on rewarding her entire team's performance rather than individual team members' performance.

As a team manager, Leia makes a point to avoid speaking unkindly of team members to other team members, and she

always sticks up for team members who are being treated unfairly.

Carter meets individually with each of his team members every quarter to review their performance and progress toward

their objectives.

Oscar gives team members the freedom to make important decisions on matters such as team deadlines and resource

allocation.

Javier hires team members that represent the wide array of diversity in his company's customer base.

Ki is careful not to put certain personalities on the same team. For example, Lauryl and Hamad are both extremely solutions$-$

focused and have little tolerance for pleasantries, chit$-$chat, or other activities that help group members bond. Ki usually

doesn't assign them to the same project teams.

For his first team meeting, Graham bakes and decorates a beautiful batch of holiday cookies for his teammates. His boss

pulls him aside before the meeting starts and tells him that he should think about how this will be perceived; others might

think he has too much time on his hands and doesn't spend enough time on his work.