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Team Building for a Strategic Initiative

A Strategic Initiative is taken because an organization or someone with enough power, the sponsor, has seen or been convinced about an opportunity worth going for or a threat that can be avoided or mitigated. This opportunity or threat is the initial cause behind a need for change to a better situation.

The initial challenge of the Strategic Initiative sponsor is to formulate the basic need and the initial scope, and to find the competent people that can and will be involved with this Strategic Initiative to make it successful.

Team building is concerned with the establishment of the best possible organization to perform the Strategic Initiative:

•  Selection of people to become key-stakeholders in ...

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