Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life, The

What Is a Team?

Teams come in many forms. They may be permanent, temporary, planned, or ad hoc. They may create products, provide services, or process people (as do human service agencies).^[7] They may be formally chartered by organizational leaders or may emerge informally through employees' mutual interests and goals. They may be leader-led or self-managed. Team members may routinely meet face-to-face at the same time and in the same place (currently called “co-located” teams), or they may rarely see each other in person and instead use computer-mediated communication technologies to interact with each other (currently called “distributed” or “virtual” teams). Regardless of their purpose and form, all teams are made up of “individuals interacting ...