Definitions
Small group who hold themselves mutually accountable for a common purpose, goals, and approach.
Team
Keep team members and employees informed by explaining policies and decisions and providing accurate feedback.
Communication
Identifying and acting on opportunities.
Rapid response
Periodically, the team stops to examine how will it is functioning and what may be interfering with its effectiveness.
Self-assessment
I'll be back.
The Terminator
Reciprocal faith in others' intentions and behavior.
Trust
Be available and approachable. Provide help, advice, coaching, and support for team members' ideas.
Support
Creating an interdependency by empowering, freeing up, and serving others.
Participative leadership?
The team spends time developing key outside relationships, mobilizing resources, and building credibility with important players in other parts of the organization.
External relations
My Mama always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get."
Forrest Gump
Being believable through integrity, intent, capabilities, and results.
Credibility
Be quick to give credit and recognition to those who deserve it. Make sure all performance appraisals and evaluations are objective and impartial.
Fairness
Establishing an environment in which all team members feel as responsible as the manager for the performance of the work unit.
Shared responsibility
Team members feel free to express their feelings on the tasks as well as on the group's operation.
Open communication
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Dirty Dancing
A sense of "we-ness" helps a group to stick together.
Cohesiveness
Be consistent in your daily affairs.
Predictability
Creating a climate of trust and open, honest communication.
High communication
While the team has a formal leader, leadership functions shift from time to time depending on the circumstances, the needs of the group, and the skills of the members.
Shared leadership
And in the morning, I'm making waffles.
Shrek
Team made up of technical specialists from different areas.
Cross-functionalism
Enhance your credibility by demonstrating good business sense, technical ability, and professionalism.
Competence
Having a common sense about why the team exists and the function it serves.
Aligned on purpose
The team has a broad spectrum of team-player types including members who emphasize attention to task, goal setting, focus on process, and questions about how the team is functioning.
Style diversity
Back to school. Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool. I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight. Oh! Back to school... back to school... back to school. Well, here goes nothing.
Billy Madison