Learn how task and process interact to create personal, interpersonal and group dynamics. Learn the 10 key success factors for high performance team.

The “team dynamics” dimension is the 'chemistry’ part of team development. Teams are complex. They typically operate within highly complex and political dynamics. They start out in a somewhat chaotic situation due to lack of consensus on team rules, roles, and structure.

Teams are intense. Motivation and commitment among team members can vary widely, with some not even attending the initial team meetings, and others remaining passive. This combination of complexity and intensity create a dynamic and often volatile situation where people can get hurt, angry, and rejected.

Our research on teams has identified ten team dynamics that are key success factors in predicting team performance. Any one team can have all, none, or some of these variables. This creates over 1200 different combinations of variables that any one team may start with. And these variables are not binary — they are not necessarily just “present” or “absent.” This means that within these 1200 combinations, each team can have a different range of performance on each variable. In short — team dynamics are extremely complex.

In this webinar we use our Stages of Team Development model to integrate task, process, and team dynamics into a single model of team development. This model can be used as a guideline for developing a new team or to diagnose the strengths, weaknesses and performance of an existing team.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the Stages of Team Development
2. Learn how team task and team process interact to create team dynamics
3. Learn the role of personal, interpersonal and group dynamics in team performance
4. Learn the 10 key success factors for high performance teams
5. Learn how to diagnose team performance problems

90 minutes (60 minute presentation, 30 minute open discussion)

Douglas Peters, President, DS Performance Group