In
Organizational development, whenever a
team embarks upon a process of self-assessment in order to gauge its own effectiveness and thereby improve performance, it engages in
team building.
To assess itself, a team seeks
feedback to find out both:
- its current strengths as a team
- its current weaknesses
To improve its current performance, a team uses the feedback from the team assessment in order to:
- identify any gap between the desired state and the actual state
- design any gap closure strategy
- William G. Dyer, Team building: Current Issues and New Alternatives (3rd Edition). Pearson Education POD, 1995. ISBN 0201628821.
Sometimes the term "team building" (or "teambuilding") refers to the process of establishing specific groups to accomplish certain tasks[?] in an organization. Among the ingredients that are critical to the successful set-up and launch of such team efforts are:
- goals and objectives
- timetables
- metrics
- training on how to work together
The morale of the team is an important variable and is often affected by such factors as:
- support
- resources
- communication
- personalities
As team performance reflects on management, managers should take part in constructing and fostering teams.