CHAPTER 7

Team Building

Tim London

University of Cape Town

Introduction

Despite great interest from both researchers and practitioners, the challenge of how to create and lead effective teams in both the private and public sectors remains.1 Private sector leaders must build several types of teams: relationships with shareholders, external networks, and intra-office working groups. Leaders of charities and nonprofit organizations may not have shareholders, but they have similar needs for teams and are facing new funding regimes demanding collaborative funding proposals (such as those recently implemented in parts of the United Kingdom) and the pressures of building better impact and sustainability through better teamwork internally as well as ...

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