Seminar 7 : Groups and teams

 Group: a small number of people working in a collaborative style with individual

input and accountability
 Team: a small number of people with complimentary skills who are committed to a
common purpose, performance goals and approach for which they hold themselves
mutually accountable

Working group = a kind of team, have its characteristics

Benefits:
- make up for each other weaknesses, divers range of ideas, learn from each other,
multi-skilling => competence related benefits
Social benefits: relationships, sense of belonging

Video:
A high-performance team:
- people talent with complementary skills => work well together
- focus on one objective
How to make a high-performance team? (Team formation & composition)
- collaboration: pushes them to give their best
- social skills vs Technical skills
- sum best individual not equal to best team
High performing people  fixed way of thinking, used to being right, intuitive => difficult to
work with
Lot of stress when high performing person, pressure...