Types of Teams and their Specific Challenges

Updated on 30. January 2018 By Nathalie Karasek Leave a comment

This is an interesting take away from the 2012 HBR article The Discipline of Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith

Classification of Team

The article describes 3 classes of teams. Each has its own goals and challenges to face.

Teams That Recommend Things

  • Goal: study and solve particular problems
  • Issues:
    • getting off to a fast and constructive start
    • dealing with the ultimate handoff that’s required to get recommendations implemented

Teams That Make or Do Things

  • Goal: doing the basic value-adding activities of a business
  • Challenges:
    • deciding where team performance might have the greatest impact
    • build the necessary systems and process supports for a significant number of teams

Teams That Run Things

Challenges:

  • determining whether a real team approach is the right one
  • identifying specific purposes and goals

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