What makes great project teams?

When we create a project team, we usually select the best of the available resources. However, sometimes the team doesn't perform as well as expected.

This is most commonly due to lack of good leadership. The Project Manager / Leaders must be able to inspire the team to deliver their best. Individual creativity and talent must be encouraged to  the maximum extent possible. The Project Team Head must be free of bias and be able to inspire everybody in the team. The team will naturally deliver its best.

Interesting idea contest dear friend, but from my point of view there are times when the PM will need to stand up to management on some issue. For instance when a PM's disagree with a decision or when they need to push back on a proposed change in scope, budget, resources, or timeline. At this time the project team wants to see the PM stand up to management. They want to know that their leader has the backbone to go to bat for them when needed. This will help to develop unity among the team members.

There is no magic formula for "building a team ", but there are several techniques for building and enhancing teams, the major being group dynamics (hidden psycho-social forces that work among groups of people.  Team dynamics are the combination of interpersonal alchemy which, if tackled well, can provide support in reaching collective goals).  Teams are crude - they develop and change. Making good Project Teams requires a combination of enhancing skills, understanding of each other, communication and negotiation skills, and problem solving skills.  The closer the association between team goals and individual goals, the greater the sum of individual motivations for succeeding together. This is called Field Theory proposed by Kurt Lewin.

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
- Henry Ford

According to me enforcing the rules into the team will help to build great teams. The PM needs to be willing to enforce the team rules. Rules, the way that the PM expects others to behave, can include everything from beginning on time form meeting to requesting vacation time. The best approach is to create  an environment where everybody is part of enforcing the rules. Enforcing has a major impact on the environment of the project.

A great team is always known by it's team members who are aligned towards common objectives either by way of external factors or by way of internal factors such as Great Team leader or Project manager who can bring out best performance towards team's goal

A successful PM should also be a good people manger, which is very often an execption than the rule. The PM should have the vision to set realistic goals, to find the right type of people and to motivate them by maintaining good communication of ideas, challenges and concerns.

 There should also be no mismatch of expectations between the team leader and the team members as to what they can deliver and what output is required to acheive the goals.

The team which analysis all the risk factors and have good coordination in all aspects becomes always more succesful

A mixture of able people(right people for the right job), personnel to lead, decentralised power(case to case), written (as well as oral) rules and authority, following a mission and vision(clear goals), innovative thinking, continues knowledge  upgrade among the team members, Team effectiveness by diversified expertise, Intra team communication, commitment and last but not the least "TRUST"

In certain cases the management is responsible to give the teams certain freedom to make their choices and hence to innovate by think out of the box. This keeps them from limiting their thinking and hence results in delivering best in class teams. This inturn leads to a lot of confidence among team members.

Many a times it is found that while working on a project and if it is complex then we all(humans) tend to think more on it and unknowingly make it complicated,and try usiing all the skills an keeping common sense apart, this can be a natural reaction also.........so best solution for sucessful team work is to break the work in pieces(keep/make it simple) and apply common sense where ever required.breaking of work/job into pieces always helps to get good results in team work.

Executive should be close to team workers,he shold not be in airconditioned room and looking papers only,meeting meeting discussion and getting ideas from even a skilled worker will make the project sucess.Posting unskilled person or unqualifeid person to important role like safety engg works will make hole in project.Mechine in good condition only will help process,if any fault in mechine in heavy euipment will cause like DMRC constuction delhi fault. Heavy Mechine should be checked by skilled person before installed in sites.Engineers in day and night shift should watch concerte mixtures is that ok.Quality dept not seemed perfectly in companies.They are doing just papaer work only .

Since any Team, whether it is meant for projects, games or execution of  any kind

of work, consist of people with different ideas and outlook in general,  success

of the tems solely depends on effective interpersonal relations and effecient ways

of communication aomong team memebers on the common goal.

1. Lots patients in each & every candidate

2. always ready to listen ideas of each & every candidate

Of course leader must be a good decision maker also the project team members must share some good decission, knowledge with the team from time to time. Also decisions made are to be analysed and implemented as quickly as possible...