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    Characteristics of an Effective Team

    1. The team members share a sense of purpose and common goals, and each team
    member is willing to work to achieve these goals.

    2. The team is aware of and interested in its own processes and examines norms
    operating within the team.

    3. The team identifies its own resources and uses them, depending on its needs. The
    team willingly accepts the influence and leadership of the members whose resources are
    relevant to the immediate task.

    4. The team members continually listen to and clarify what is being said and show
    interest in others thoughts and feelings.

    5. Differences of opinion are encouraged and freely expressed. The team does not
    demand narrow conformity or adherence to formats that inhibit freedom of movement
    and expression.

    6. The team is willing to identify conflict and focus on it until it is resolved or


    managed in a way that does not reduce the effectiveness of those involved.

    7. The team focuses on problem solving rather than allowing by interpersonal issues or
    competitive struggles to drain the team’s energy.

    8. Roles are balanced and shared to facilitate both the accomplishment of tasks and
    feelings of team cohesion and morale.

    9. To encourage risk taking and creativity, mistakes are treated as sources of learning
    rather than reasons for punishment.

    10. The team is responsive to the changing needs of its members and to the external
    environment to which it is related.

    11. Team members are committed to periodically evaluate the team’s performance.

    12. The members identify with the team and consider it a source of both professional
    and personal growth.

    13. Developing a climate of trust is recognized as the crucial element for facilitating
    all the above characteristics.

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    Characteristics of Effective Team Members

    Effective Team Members:

    1. Support the team leader


    2. Help the team leader to succeed
    3. Ensure that all view points are explored
    4. Express opinions, both for and against
    5. Compliment the team leader on team efforts
    6. Provide open, honest and accurate information
    7. Support, protect and defend both the team and the team leader
    8. Act in a positive and constructive manner
    9. Provide appropriate feedback
    10. Understand personal and team roles
    11. Address problems to the team (upward feedback)
    12. Accept ownership for team decisions
    13. Recognize that they each serve as a team leader
    14. Accept ownership for team decisions
    15. Participate voluntarily
    16. Maintain confidentiality
    17. Show loyalty to the organization, the team leader, and the team
    18. View criticism as an opportunity to learn
    19. State problems, along with alternative solutions/options
    20. Give praise and recognition when warranted

    Based on Teamwork: We Have Met the Enemy and They are Us by M.M. Starcevich and S.J. Stowell.
    Bartlesville, OK: The Center for Organizational Effectiveness.

    Based on "Team Building as Group Development" by Philip Hanson and Bernard Lubin. Organizational
    Developmental Journal: Spring 1986. and George Mason University’s Center for Service and Leadership

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