What Are the Different Levels of Teamwork?
To say that the word team is used loosely is a gross understatement. Here are four variations in what might be called the “teamness” of a group working on a project.
Star Teams. According to Katzenback and Smith, in The Wisdom of Teams, a star team is “a small group of people with complementary skills committed to a common purpose, with shared performance goals and a common approach, holding themselves mutually accountable” (1993).
The size element is an important consideration. The size that best facilitates team effectiveness is between four and twelve. Above that number, the closeness, ease of communication, and ability of every member to be a real contributor decline, although teams of twenty-five ...
Get People in Projects now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
