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The term 'team building' can refer generally to the selection and motivation of teams, or more specifically to group self-assessment in the theory and practice of organizational development.

When a team in an organizational development context embarks upon a process of self-assessment in order to gauge its own effectiveness and thereby improve performance, it can be argued that it is engaging in team building, although this may be considered a narrow definition.

The process of team building includes, (a) clarifying the goal, and building ownership across the team and (b)identifying the inhibitors to teamwork and removing or overcoming them, or if they cannot be removed, mitigating their negative effect on the team.

To assess itself, a team seeks feedback to find out both:
  • its current strengths as a team
  • its current weaknesses
To improve its current performance, a team uses the feedback from the team assessment in order to:
  • identify any gap between the desired state and the actual state
  • design a gap-closure strategy

See also

TEAM may be an acronym for:
  • The Electors' Action Movement, a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia,
  • The European Anti-Maastricht Movement,
  • The Evangelical Alliance Mission,
  • Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope,

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Organization development, according to Richard Beckhard, is defined as: a planned effort, organization-wide, managed from the top, to increase organization effectiveness and health, through planned interventions in the organization's 'processes', using behavioural science knowledge.
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TEAM may be an acronym for:
  • The Electors' Action Movement, a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia,
  • The European Anti-Maastricht Movement,
  • The Evangelical Alliance Mission,
  • Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope,

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Organization development, according to Richard Beckhard, is defined as: a planned effort, organization-wide, managed from the top, to increase organization effectiveness and health, through planned interventions in the organization's 'processes', using behavioural science knowledge.
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Process (lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties or attributes of an object or system[1][2][3][4][5][6][7].
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Self-assessment in an organisational setting, according to the EFQM definition, refers to a comprehensive, systematic and regular review of an organisation's activities and results referenced against the EFQM Excellence Model.
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Collaboration is a structured, recursive process where two or more people work together toward a common goal—typically an intellectual endeavor[1] [2] that is creative in nature[3]—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.
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In business, a cross-functional team is a group of people with different functional expertise working toward a common goal. It may include people from finance, marketing, operations, and human resources departments.
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  • Organizational studies - an overview
  • Organizational development
  • Collaborative method
  • Management development
  • Mentoring

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Industrial and organizational psychology (also known as I/O psychology, work psychology, work and organizational psychology, W-O psychology, occupational psychology, personnel psychology or talent assessment
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Teamwork is the concept of people working together cooperatively, as in a sports team.

Projects require that people work together, so teamwork has become an important concept everywhere. Effective teams are an intermediary goal towards getting good, sustainable results.
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The term self-help or self-improvement can refer to any case or practice whereby an individual or a group attempts self-guided improvement[1]
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Office politics are politics which exist in an office relating to that organization. It is a term for both the productive and counterproductive competitive human factors present between coworkers, in any office environment.
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