High Performance Team
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Explain how a group can become a high-performance team. Include an examination of the impact of demographic characteristics and cultural diversity on group behavior. Also, describe how demographic characteristics and cultural diversity contribute to or detract from high-performance teams.
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How to Build a High Performance Team
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A group comprising of various team members consists of people with different demographic characterisitics, cultural background, educational background, skills and characteristics, strengths and weaknesses and abilities, risk taking capabilities, team work and cooperating abilities, abilities to try out new things and other soft and hard skills.
Some of the peculiar characteristics of a high performance team are:
Develop goals and plans
Enhance communication among members
Develop and maintain positive relationships among members
Solve problems and make decisions on a timely basis
Successfully manage conflict
Facilitate productive meetings
Clarify roles for team members
Operate in a productive manner
Exhibit effective team leadership
Provide development opportunities for team members
source:
http://www.doctorholmes.net/Ten%20Characteristics%20of%20a%20High%20Performance%20Work%20Team.pdf.
In order for a group to really perform well and become a high performace team in an organization, there should be a strong synergy among the group efforts with respect to the activities or tasks they intend to perform or are performing and goals towards which they are working. Synergies reflect to cohesive efforts with great coordination, utlizing each other's strenghts and negating each other's weaknesses and avoiding any conflicts between them to produce the best result in the most efficient way. Every team member has its own strengths and weaknesses and it is important for the group to realize this fact and use the team member ...
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