The Importance Of Team Performance

Teams play a vital role in the activity of the companies and organizations. To form a high performance team one need to know what elements influence team performance. The most important elements of the teams are its members. It goes without saying that all of them have different personalities. And here lies the question: how to select those individuals, who will make you team successful?

Most leaders are of opinion that the more diverse and versatile the team is, the higher the possibility it will achieve a long-term success. This diversity does not imply gender, religious, cultural and other differences. It is all about different work styles or, in other words, how people think, organize, and cope with tasks. Moreover, teams perform better when they consist of individuals with

For instance, a team where everyone is serious, strategic, disciplined and careful will be incapable of creating new and innovative product. On the other hand, if a team consists of enthusiastic, imaginative and outgoing personalities, then there is a huge possibility they will run out of budget and will never meet deadlines.

So, is there a recipe on how to cast the right personalities to appropriate roles? In 1980s, after series of Dr. Belbin developed a hypothesis of how the ideal team should look like. According to his management team model, the ideal team should include individuals who can perform nine team roles that he had singles out. At the same time they do not need to fulfill only one role – the team can contain 5 individuals and some of them will need to take two or three roles. Thus, according to Belbin’s model, the members of an ideal team should fulfill the following roles:

• Coordinator is mature, confident, balanced and people oriented. They command considerable respect for the team, help clarify team goals, promote decision making and are calm, confident and