Individual and Team Development

A team is a group of people who work together to accomplish something beyond their individual self-interests.

“A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed in a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.”

Katzenbach, J. R. and D. K. Smith (2006). The wisdom of teams: Creating the high-performance organization (Collins Business Essentials). New York: HarperCollins.

“High-performance work teams” refers to a group of individuals who are goal-focused with specialised expertise and complementary skills. These individuals collaborate, innovate and produce consistently superior results. The team relentlessly pursues performance excellence through shared goals, shared leadership, collaboration, open communication, clear role expectations and group operating rules, early conflict resolution, and a strong sense of accountability and trust among its members.