How to… Ensure Effective Teamwork

First things first: do teams work? Yes - it is well established via research that team working:

• Enhances employee attitudes (e.g. engagement, motivation) and behaviour (e.g. absenteeism, turnover).
• Enables greater financial performance - which may be the most convincing argument for making an investment in team-based working in profit-making organisations.
• Effects increased organisational efficiency, productivity and quality.

In summary, effective teamwork ensures results that surpass the sum of individual efforts. Creating high-performance teams is all about getting the right people, getting them motivated and getting them to focus on the right things. Some years ago extensive and