Building an Effective Team

TEAMS that perform well:

• Hold shared mental models
• Have clear roles and responsibilities
• Have a clear, valued, and shared vision
• Optimize resources
• Have strong team leadership
• Engage in a regular process of offering feedback
• Develop a strong sense of collective trust and confidence
• Overcome informational and behavioral conflict
• Create mechanisms to cooperate, coordinate and provide mutual support
• Manage and optimize performance outcomes

  (Salas et al. 2004)

Building effective teams requires a paradigm shift in thinking and emphasis..

It requires a substantive change in thinking and acting, moving from a focus
on individual goals and performance to team goals and interdependent behaviors.

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