CHAPTER 6

High Performing Project Teams

Objectives:

  • Recognize the traits of successful teams.

  • Utilize metrics to track and improve team performance.

  • Learn how to enhance team cohesion.

  • Understand the characteristics of effective project teams.

  • Recognize important processes of project teams to improve their performance.

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Team performance can be measured in terms of psychosocial and task outcomes. Effective teams, although pursuing different goals, often exhibit many of the same traits, such as interdependency, trust, and communication. Teams are strongly influenced by the organizational culture. These mind-sets and paradigms stem from ...

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