Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers

Team-Building Strategies

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Katzenbach and Smith (1993) define a team as a small number of people with complementary skills committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach, for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. Parker (1994) writes that a team is a group of people with a high degree of interdependence geared toward the achievement of a goal or the completion of a task. Stuckenbruck and Marshall (1985) define an effective project team as one in which the team members are interdependent, have a reason to work together, are committed to working together, are accountable as a functioning unit, and have a moderate level of competition and conflict.

Mayer (1998) defines a virtual team as one composed of people who are distributed ...