Build the Perfect Team

Effective teams are critical to success in today’s environment of rapid, technology-driven change. Hence, in this era of very high project failure rates, it is not surprising that organizations search for ways to improve the performance of their teams. Google’s intensive study of the characteristics of their best teams led them to an unexpected discovery. The best teams create an environment of psychological safety by adopting two team norms that lead to important shared behaviors. Group development experts agree that psychological safety is essential to a high-performing team. However, as you will discover, building the perfect team involves more than setting team norms.

Written by an expert in leadership, decision making, and organizational change management, this book reveals the secrets of building a perfect team in a straightforward, systematic way. Applying the 7 steps in the Perfect Team Model will enable you to build teams that work efficiently and effectively to solve the problems, and capitalize on the singular opportunities, that present themselves in the electronic age. Each chapter contains information that will guide you in developing the perfect team by:

1. Balancing the Team

2. Creating Psychological Safety

3. Transitioning from Group to Team

4. Adopting the Team Leadership Model

5. Using Collaborative Problem-Solving Processes

6. Applying Participative Implementation Processes

7. Facilitating Team and Organizational Learning

The members of a perfect team are engaged, motivated, vision-driven, collaborative, and extremely productive. If your organization needs high-performing teams, this book will help you develop them.