We have talked about team building and how to approach improving the strengths of a team, but something that has not yet been discussed is what a team should and shouldn’t provide.

• A team should help to improve confidence throughout the whole team.
• Members of a team should provide support to each other.
• A team should help its members to feel that they are not alone with their work.
• A team will help to increase productivity and creativity.
• A team does not have to be a family.
• A team does not even have to like each other that much or spend time together out of work.
• A team should know what their goals and objectives are and should help each other to achieve them.

No two teams are the same, and sometimes teams do not act like you would expect a team to.  This does not mean that they are not a team, rather that they just function in a different way than normal.  There is no right way for a team to act, and as long as they are achieving their goals, then there is little need to try and change a team to work in a more conventional way.

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