Theoretical models
Ten Principles for creating the highest performance teams and team innovation: 1. Establish the reasons and objectives of forming a team. Create a concise team vision and mission statement that is crisp and well understood
2. Recruit the team players who will be the most adept at achieving the said team objectives, vision and mission. 3. Establish clear, participatory, effective and elevating team goals and plans, preferably using SMART system (see Back up ) 4. Articulate and communicate team task functions and relationship functions, and help the team understand the differences through examples. 5. Develop healthy and productive group and meeting norms, grow team cohesiveness by building collaboration, and manage social loafing consequences 6. Proactively manage team behaviors and conflicts that could either encourage or harm member relations, and regulate situations where individual needs are not satisfied. 7. Cultivate and unleash Group Creativity and Innovation – the team leader leverages Group Creativity Techniques including Basic Brainstorming, Nominal group Technique (NGT) and NGT- Storming (see Backup) 8. Analyze, update and maneuver team communication according to the twelve categories comprising Bales’ Interaction Analysis* 9. Create a Team Assessment Inventory on the team’s general productivity and climate, team goals, processes and procedures 10. Have fun! Create an environment wherein the team members enjoy their work and the team morale remains high.
Note: Bales’ Interaction Analysis allows the manager to review the team’s member communications in four categories: Positive reactions, Attempted answers, Questions and Negative reactions. By analyzing this once every few months, the leader can not only get insight on how the team communicates, but also provide individual members feedback
Source: http://creativityandinnovation.blogspot.de