Tips for a successful team

Please find below tips to form a successful team.

Attributes of a winning team:
1. Common goal.
2. Self-belief.
3. Collaboration.
4. Creativity.
5. Role balance

By recognising specific personality types and skill bases, a random group of individuals can be structured to become a highly effective team that delivers much more than the sum of its parts. Successful teams combine the right mix of people with complementary skills. At the same time, individuals in a balanced, successful team will feel more motivated and will perform more effectively.

Some studies suggest eight essential roles are needed to form an optimum team:

1. Explorer Networker: keeps in touch with new thinking, inquisitive, excited by ideas/challenges, enjoys people, spots opportunities, uses initiative.

2. Leader Co-ordinator: encourages people to participate, offers co-ordination and control, resolves differences of opinion, averts and defuses conflicts.

3. Driver: energises people, pushes for action, asserts views on what needs to be done, challenges alternative opinions.

4. Completer Achiever: approaches tasks in an urgent meticulous manner, maintains standards, meets deadlines.

5. Specialist: a technical approach, specific area of expertise, maintains a specialist role.

6. Analyst: demonstrates analytical rigour in thinking, decisions are considered and educated.

7. Team Coach: attentive to people's needs and welfare, listens to concerns, explores feelings on a particular issue.

8. Innovator: source of creative thinking for strategies and problems, break-through approaches, original ideas.

What team member role do you fulfill?

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