What is it about?
How do you develop a high-performing team? Is it all about selecting the right team members, or does leadership style play a role? If both are important, whom do you select and what do you do to motivate them to achieve the desired optimal performance? Given the ubiquitous nature of teams and their importance to organizational success, knowing the answers to these questions is vital. Hence, the focus in this article is on what it takes for groups to develop into teams and how to optimize the process (i.e., how to develop high-performing teams).
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Why is it important?
With reported project failure rates of nearly 70%, it is crucial to examine what really makes teams effective. Proven change management principles and practices provide a powerful framework for guiding the search for solutions to this pervasive and unacceptable problem
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Having worked as a successful OD/Change Management consultant for several decades prior to becoming an academic, I expected to succeed in every project my clients hired me to undertake. As a result, when, as an academic, I read about the staggering failure rates routinely experienced in other areas, such as IT-driven change projects, it came as a great surprise. So, I wrote this article with the goal of providing non-OD folks with proven ways to build teams that succeed (i.e., high-performing teams).
Dr. Robert E. Levasseur
Walden University
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This page is a summary of: People Skills: Optimizing Team Development and Performance, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, April 2011, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1100.0519.
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