Respond to the posts on topic: What makes a team truly successful over the long run? How can leaders ensure that once achieved success can be maintained?

by Krishna Battu 

The development of the team is the foundation that the businesses are performing well in the different operation. The comprehensive communication and interaction is necessary to have the good team where all the members can share their thoughts, ideas, opinion at the same platform and there is no one who is superior of inferior to others. Every member of the team must having the same exhibiting characteristics to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization. If a team lacks the comprehensive characteristics that are required for the operational development, then it leaves the negative impact on the system (Queensland et al., 2012). There are six different parameters of the team that ensure that either a team would be successful or not and these can be described as

·         Effective communication is the key of success where everyone have the opportunity to share their perspective.

·         The diversity and heterogeneity of the team help them to implement their skills and knowledge as to solve the organizational problem.

·         The goals, vision and the roles, responsibilities of the team must be clear to them as it provides them a direction of work.

·         Leader provides the feedback and criticize the work if there is something not going well, and he is the one who is trustworthy (Keller, 2006).

·         The team members should have the trust and respect the opinion of others.

·         The cohesiveness of team and trust can help them to manage the conflict.

Leader is the necessary component to develop a best and successful team as he is the one who increase the engagement and interaction of the team through the provision of feedback and criticism on the different perspective, ideas, and thoughts. It provides the opportunity to the team members to think out of the box. These characteristics help to make them successful and cohesive team (Keller, 2006).

References

Keller, R. T. (2006). Transformational leadership, initiating structure, and substitutes for leadership: A longitudinal study of research and development project team performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(1), 202–210.  https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.91.1.202

Queensland, A., Taylor, D., Lock, D., Taylor, T., Funk, D., & Darcy, S. (2012). Exploring the Development of Team Identification. Journal of Sport Management, 26, 283–294.  https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/122407/4/2011005587.pdf