Taking stock of the team
By Sarah Cook and Steve Macaulay (July 2007 Issue)
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New teams often start off their lives with a lot of attention and fanfare. However, after a while of business-as-usual, the focus on team effectiveness can begin to dull: new members join the team and do not share the same sense of understanding of purpose, ways of working and the knowledge of the people themselves.
Still further down the line, new co-opted project members and virtual members may join the team, working with less attachment to it. Over time, there develops an increasing lack of shared common understanding of purpose; daily issues blur the team’s insight into what it is all for. Team performance an often suffer as a result.
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