Better World Consulting Group, Inc.: Team Development--Keys for Managers and Leaders

Managers and Leaders must understand the dynamics of team and team formation in order to maximize their impact and the enhance the effectiveness of the team and its individuals members. Two full days are dedicated to these important concepts and the tools that you can use to develop your teams.

A group is “a collection of people who come together because they share something in common.” (Solomon, Davidson, and Solomon, 1993). What they share could be as insignificant as desire to get on the next bus that will arrive at a particular stop. A team, however, is “a group of people who share a common name, mission, history, set of goals or objectives and expectations.” A strategy that can help groups develop into real teams is team building, “the process needed to create, maintain, and enrich the development of a group of people into a cohesive unit.” Team building exercises are very important in the development of teams that will work together for an extended period of time on a complex project or a series of activities.