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TEAM...Together Each Achieve More....These team building articles and ideas can be used to build up team communication in the workplace, sports and home environment.  They provide you the resources needed to develop a successful team. 

How do you go about creating a team and making them a part of the organization or community? 

First, you have to define what a team is.  Basically, it's a group of people that work together in an environment to reach a common goal. 

If you're a sports team, the common goal would be to win the game. 

If you're in a workplace, the common goal would be to commit to something that would benefit the group or organization as a whole. 

As a family team member, a teamwork activity would be working together to make family life more enjoyable.

Setting Expectations

Before you choose team members, you need to determine what needs to be accomplished and then create a plan on how you will be selecting members of your team. 

Setting expectations for each person is important and the team members need to be interested in participating in the group. They need to be able to take control of the project as well as communicate and work with each other. 

In addition, each person needs to be held accountable and can work well together.

As part of these team building articles you have a lot to start with, but the more you select people with the qualities you're looking for, the better the results will be. 

Once everyone is selected, then the team must decide what will work for them following basic guidelines.  The leader of the organization can't tell them what to do, because the team members will just resist. 

Teamwork Activity

The team knows that they need to accomplish a goal.  As a group, they need to delegate the tasks to be done to each team member.  In the process, a leader will be chosen, someone to handle note taking, another person to be the group communicator, and so on. 

After the team is assembled and you begin working together, start listening to each other.  Find out any issues they might have.  If the other people are unsure of the nextsteps, then help them move forward. 

As a team member, you're both a student and a teacher.  Learn from others as they learn from you.

Sometimes you will have conflicts amongst team members.  It's bound to happen when two or more people gather to work together. 

One person might feel strongly about the process of doing something and someone else may want to take the easy route.  Either way, they need to learn how to resolve any issues.