TRUST IS THE FOUNDATION
- Each member is willing to work toward a shared vision or goal in a context of individual and mutual accountability for defined outcomes
- Influence and leadership rotate depending on the task
- Each member listens and respects others
- Differences of opinion are encouraged and freely expressed
- Conflict is viewed as healthy, is surfaced and managed
- Team Focus is on solving problems, rather than on interpersonal competition or assignment of blame
- Relationship and task roles are balanced
- Risk taking is encouraged, mistakes are learning opportunities, blame is not productive
- Team is responsive to internal and external change
- Team performance isperiodically assessed through member feedback to one another in the context of individual and mutual accountability
- Members Complement each other's strengths and compensate for limitations
- Members grow personally and professionally from their association with the team
- Results are greater than those that could be accomplished individually
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HENRY FORD said this about an effective team:
- TEAMWORK
- "Coming together is a beginning;
- Keeping together is Progress:
- Working together is Success."
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