Kim Kanaga & Michael E. Kossler 
How to Form a Team [PDF ebook] 
Five Keys to High Performance

Team success doesn’t start with results. It starts with the building of an effective team that can deliver on its promise. This book is for managers and leaders who have responsibility for the creation and success of teams. If you are a department head or project manager, or if you are the senior-level champion or sponsor of a proposed team, this guidebook will help you understand the five factors critical to building effective teams and show you how to use those factors to lay the groundwork for successful teams.

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7 What Is a Team?8 Forming an Effective Team Set a Clear Direction Build Organizational Support Create an Empowering Team Structure Identify Key Relationships Monitor External Factors27 Team Formation: A Special Event27 Suggested Readings28 Background29 Key Point Summary

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This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, sinceits inception in 1970, through its research and educationalactivity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands ofmanagers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a waythat is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply acollection of individual experts, although the individualcredentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and workingtogether to understand and generate practical responses to today’sleadership and organizational challenges.The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specificadvice on how to complete a developmental task or solve aleadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL’smission to advance the understanding, practice, and development ofleadership for the benefit of society worldwide.Kim Kanaga is the director of CCL’s Greensboro Campus. He has an extensive background in teambuilding initiatives, which he has used to customize team effectiveness programs for many CCL clients. Kim holds a Ph.D. in communication from Michigan State University.Michael E. Kossler is Manager-Custom Solutions for CCL-Europe and is based in Brussels, Belgium. He is also themanager of CCL’s geographically dispersed teams researchproject. During the last ten years, Mike has worked with hundredsof manager- and executive-level teams. Mike holds an MA inorganizational communication from the University of Akron and an MMin organization development from Aquinas College.