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Successful Team Building
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Successful Team Building

by Thomas L. Quick
April 1992
Intermediate to advanced
112 pages
2h 11m
English
AMACOM
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CHAPTER 5

THE STAGES IN BUILDING A TEAM

A common fiction among managers is that to get a team, you bring together a number of people (preferably compatible with one another), let them work and meet together, and behold—you have a team. Actually, a team develops in stages, over a period of time.

STAGE 1: SEARCHING

The initial phase in the formation of a new group is often characterized by confusion over the roles that each person will play, the task to be performed, the type of leadership, and where the leadership will come from. (There may be a formally constituted leader, but most members are aware that others in the group will play leadership ...

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