Here are eight basic steps to create a healthy, growing team.

1. How Do You
Grow A
Healthy
Team?
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Development
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2. According Buchholz, Roth,
and Hess in their book
Creating the High
Performance Team there are
eight attributes that are
evident in healthy
teams. These attributes will
help any organization grow
strong and healthy.
Creating the High Performance Team, Steve Buchholz, Thomas Roth
(Wilson Learning Corporation); editied by Karen Hess, New York : Wiley, c1987.
p.176-177

3. Participative Leadership
This is an interdependence
among team members that
encourages an attitude of
empowering, freeing up, and
serving others.

4. Shared responsibility
Each member plays an
important and valuable role
on the team.

5. Sense of Common Purpose
Why has the team been
brought together?

6. Clear Communication
Creation of an environment that
is based upon trust and clear
and honest communication.

7. Change Produces Opportunity
The behavior of leaders will do
more to influence change than
all tools and techniques
combined.

8. A Clear Focus on the Task
at Hand
All meetings of the group will
keep their focus upon the
ultimate goal.

9. Maximizing on the Talents
of the Team
Any barriers that would hinder
the use of gifts or talents are
removed by the leaders. The
use of skills are maximized
and encouraged.

10. Practicing a Rapid Response
This is the skill of an
organization to identify an
opportunity and to act upon it
quickly.

11. The information provided in this
power point comes from
Creating the High Performance Team
Steve Buchholz, Thomas Roth
(Wilson Learning Corporation);
editied by Karen Hess, New York : Wiley, c1987. p.176-177
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“healthy teams”
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