How to Launch a Team: Start Right for Success

Launching a Successful Team

The crucial business of a team launch is to become a team—to bring a group of disparate and formerly disconnected people with their varied skills and experience and styles to bear on a challenge. The actions you take as team leader before, during, and after the first team meeting—the time of the team’s launch—will help your team achieve that first important step. Team members will learn why they have come together to make a team, get to know each other, begin to trust each other, and learn to work together outside of and across from their usual channels and boundaries. They will set up the terms of how they will interact ...