Developing High-Performance Teams: Stages, Norms & Leadership

This report provides a detailed overview of developing high-performance teams within an organization. It begins by defining a team and outlining common team types such as functional, cross-functional, self-managed, and virtual teams. The report explains the importance of team norms and how they contribute to effective organization, highlighting the advantages of teams in fostering organizational growth, achieving objectives, increasing employee productivity, and ensuring business stability. It also details the five stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Furthermore, the report emphasizes the characteristics of a good team leader, including patience, dedication, perseverance, discipline, enthusiasm, motivation, optimism, time management, problem-solving skills, kindness, and calmness, and their crucial role in team and organizational development. The document concludes with a list of references.

Developing a high
performance team

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
ANSWERS .....................................................................................................................................3
A brief explanation of team.........................................................................................................3
Some common types of teams in the organisation......................................................................3
What are norms and the way they help teams in their effective organisation.............................4
Some advantages of teams and how the teams help employees to grow....................................4
The five stages of team development..........................................................................................4
The characteristics of a good team leader...................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

MAIN BODY
ANSWERS
A brief explanation of team
The team is a formation of different types of people who function for a particular task or
activity (Cooke, 2019). Team is managed by a leader in a company and he is also responsible for
all major operations and functions in the company. It is essential for the company to manage a
specific team in the organisation for achievement of long and short term goals. Team helps and
supports an organisation to develop in the marketplace by formulating major company decisions.
Also the teams should focus on developing goal orientation in order to achieve different
organisational goals.
Some common types of teams in the organisation
There are following common types of teams in the company which functions on different
basis:
 Functional teams
 Cross functional teams
 Self managed teams
 Virtual teams

What are norms and the way they help teams in their effective organisation
The norms are the rules and regulations which are associated with the operations of a
company. These include business practices which are developed by employees in order to cope
up with different teams (Keerativutisest, 2017). Also it is major responsibility of management to
focus on all major and effective norms in the company to increase effectiveness and efficiency of
company. Norms are related to all the major policies which are framed by top level management
in order to manage effectiveness in the company.
Some advantages of teams and how the teams help employees to grow
The main advantages of the teams are:
 Helps in organisational growth.
 Develops aims and objectives of the company.
 Increase employee productivity and growth.
 Helps in development in business stability.
The teams help in company's growth by maintaining effectiveness of operations and completion
of organisational tasks (Ritter, 2018). It is also a key role and responsibility of the company to
develop and formulate different teams in business for long term success of the company.
The five stages of team development
The five major stages of team development are mentioned below (Shirey, 2019):
 Forming
 Storming
 Norming
 Performing
 Adjourning

The characteristics of a good team leader
The characteristics of a good team leader are effective in team development and also play
a crucial role in organisation's development (Sousa, 2019). The main characteristics of a good
leader are mentioned below:
 A good team leader has patience and dedication
 The good team leader has perseverance and discipline.
 A good team leader is enthusiastic and motivated
 Optimistic nature is another major characteristic of a good leader.
 Time management skills
 Problem solving skills
 Kindness and calmness

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Cooke, F.L., Cooper, B.,. and Mei, H., 2019. Mapping the relationships between high-
performance work systems, employee resilience and engagement: A study of the banking
industry in China. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(8), pp.1239-
1260.
Keerativutisest, V. and Hanson, B.J., 2017. Developing high performance teams (HPT) through
employee motivation, interpersonal communication skills, and entrepreneurial mindset using
organization development interventions (ODI): A study of selected engineering service
companies in Thailand. ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 4(1).
Ritter, B.A., Small, E.E., and Doll, J.L., 2018. Designing management curriculum for workplace
readiness: Developing students’ soft skills. Journal of Management Education, 42(1), pp.80-103.
Shirey, M.R., White-Williams, C. and Hites, L., 2019. Integration of authentic leadership lens for
building high performing interprofessional collaborative practice teams. Nursing administration
quarterly, 43(2), pp.101-112.
Sousa, M.J. and Rocha, Á., 2019. Skills for disruptive digital business. Journal of Business
Research, 94, pp.257-263.