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Characteristics of Successful Teams

Based on analyses of successful teams, Katzenbach & Smith identified six basic principles of team discipline. These principles require adherence to help ensure team success.

  • Size - Keep team numbers to a minimum; optimum is six to ten members.
  • Skills - Ensure that team members possess complementary skills, so that the team has the right mix for the task.
  • Purpose - Identify a clear performance purpose that is documented and agreed to as a share common purpose among the team members.
  • Goals - Agree upon outcome-based goals that can be measured.
  • Roles - Provide clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
  • Accountability - Ensure mutual and individual accountability.*

*Katzenbach, J.R., Smith, D.K., The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization, Harper Business, 1993.

 
 

   

  
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