Forming a team that will effectively collaborate to achieve success in a project is challenging and depends on various factors. A team is a group of people with specific skills who have a shared goal to achieve outstanding results at a workplace (Bauer & Erdogan, 2017). The primary factor that is always considered in building a successful team is its members’ personality type (Gino, 2015). The proper combination of introverted team members with extraverted leader enable successful project completion (Gino, 2015). Apart from personality types, the team needs to be cohesive and goal-oriented to be effective. Five fundamental factors influence the team’s cohesiveness: similarity, stability, size, support, and satisfaction (Bauer & Erdogan, 2017). Depending on the type of leadership, groups can be manager-led, self-managed, or self-directed (Bauer & Erdogan, 2017). The three most important factors that should be considered the most to create a strong team are similarity, support, and size. The newly-formed team’s effectiveness should be evaluated based on satisfaction, level of self-directed leadership, and decision-making capacity.
Three essential factors need to be considered when forming the team for this project. First, similarity in knowledge, project goals, and workspace are critical success determinants in groups (Nursin & Latief, 2018). Second, support in the form of training is a fundamental motivator for team members to be oriented for success (Terho et al., 2017). Third, the team’s size should be less than 15 people because smaller groups collaborate more effectively (Bauer & Erdogan, 2017). Assessment of the team’s effectiveness needs to be conducted based on decision-making capacity, leadership, and satisfaction. Decision-making is vital for the team to overcome obstacles appearing in the process. For example, the SWIM club had to decide to cancel the conference because of severe weather or not (Ankeles et al., 2013). Similarly, the team will need to be capable of complex decision-making under emergency. Third, the most effective teams are self-managing, possessing problem-solving, evaluation, and strategy development (Magpili & Pazos, 2018). These factors should help to organize an effective team for this project. Finally, our organization’s teams are formed based on similarity factors and self-management, ensuring our public programs’ successful completion.
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