INTRODUCTION
The statement, ?teams can be extremely powerful when they work well, but transforming a group of individuals into a team can be hard work,' would be more correct if it said, ?teams are extremely powerful when they work well, but transforming a group of individuals into an effective team is hard work.' This assignment will attempt to explain that transforming a group of individuals into an effective team is hard work. This will be done by discussing, debating and analysing the first statement. In order to do this I will: define what a team is; discuss powerful teams; distinguish between teams and workgroups; talk about the types of teams that exist; evaluate the development and process of teams; analyse several components of what an effective team is and discuss things that can go wrong in the teambuilding process.
TEAMS DEFINED
Katzenbach and Smith (1993, p. 45) offers a very similar definition as to what a team is, compared to, Wood et al. (2004, p 311)?A small number of people with complimentary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.'(Katzenbach and Smith 1993, p. 45) In other words, a team, is a small group of individuals that are working together to achieve a common outcome, these individuals will also posses complimentary skills. For example, suppose that the CEO of Coca-Cola came to the conclusion that the companies beverage sales would rise if they had a more diverse offering of beverages. The individuals responsible for researching the type of beverages to be launched by Coca-Cola to increase sales would be called a team. These researchers would have a common purpose, performance goals and complimentary skills making them a team. For this ...