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SKILL THREE

How to Build Highly Successful Teams

The Loop

The wedge and the three hats bring into context the multiple people skills required of team leaders today. Building on these concepts, the next essential skill for project leaders is knowing how to create a highly successful team, which is defined as a group of people working together with a shared purpose of meeting and exceeding stakeholder expectations through superior collaboration, team commitment, and selfless behavior.

Great team leaders do not manage people; they lead people. They don’t tell people what to do; they motivate, facilitate, and inspire people to cooperate, collaborate, ...

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