How to build and manage a winning project team?

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This 3 pages document (900 words) sums up the most important steps to follow, build and manage successfully a team, based on ?How to build and manage a winning project team? by James P. Lewis, Ed. amacom.

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[...] Supporting role, he supports and encourages others. He gives strength to the team through confidence and trust. Compromising role, he gives up an idea to solve a problem. It is necessary for cooperation and collaboration. Norms and rules will help the team members to interact, communicate and conduct themselves. Norms and rules help decide which behaviours are allowed, and which are not. They will help the team to take decisions, encourage participation, and reward behaviour. The purpose of norms and rules is to lead to efficiency. [...]

[...] They work well together and enjoy doing so, as they produce high quality results. Team development is the process of developing a team newly formed or existing group of people to high performing. The purpose of a team is to organize and manage a group of people so that to produce an efficient work and that individual members of the team find the experience rewarding. A group of people does not necessarily constitute a team. Actually teams possess specific characteristics, which are sharing goals, interdependence and commitment. [...]

[...] This is necessary to make Meetings as often as possible. On the top of the folder always having a timetable, describing which goals need to be achieved and when should de planned, leaving only 20% to unexpected. During each meeting minutes have to be written, if possible by different people. In the end of a folder can be Feed-backs, on the good work that has been done and the things to improve. Bibliography: to build and manage a winning project team” by James P. Lewis Ed. [...]

[...] When this is not the case, all the energy used in the team may solve the wrong problem. Goals help keep the team focused. The purpose provides emotional energy and motivation. Once the team is formed, roles and responsibilities have to be defined. The different roles that can be observed are the fallowing: Chairman, advancing new ideas; Monitor, evaluating those ideas; Company worker, translating ideas into practice; Team worker, helping and supporting others; Resource investigator, sees that what is needed is there; Completer, makes sure the work goes out correctly. [...]

[...] A purpose is a wall and goals are the bricks constituting this wall, the purpose. That is really important for all team members to have the good goals in mind. It takes part of the team leader role to check the team alignment by asking every team members if they all have understood what are the goals established. In most of the case, every team member would say yes so as not feeling stupid, but in fact don't understood with precision. [...]