Step B.Identify make-or-break issues
• What it means:
— A comprehensive process for focusing on priorities
• How it works:
— Review internal and external challenges
— Understand team concerns
— Select the five more important:
• practical
• doable
• high impact
The Idea
There are always more problems to solve than we have time to address. One key to team development is to have a set of priorities everyone agrees are critical to success. On most teams every member has a different image of the make or break issues—there is no clear sense of priorities that pose a common challenge to the whole team. This is even more common on virtual teams that include many different perspectives.
Example
IBToys listed these five issues as their make-or-break ...
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