There’s no doubt that teaming is a fact of life in contemporary business. The complexity and cross-functionality of business life require it. But whether you’re talking about your executive team or project or task teams, you’re dreaming if you think that just declaring a group to be a “team” because they’ve been assembled against a problem or “plugged into” the same “org” chart really makes them a “well-oiled machine.”
So what does make the difference between just a group of people and an effective, efficient, functioning team? Continue reading “A Nine-Point Checklist for Effective Teaming: It Doesn’t Just Happen!”