When it comes to projects, teams are often the most effective way to get the job done. However, commissioning a team takes careful planning and preparation to avoid a host of problems that can lead to failure.

1. Building High Performance
Project Teams

2. Recruiting Project Teams
Considerations that need to be factored into the
recruitment process
• Necessary Experience and technical skills
• Problem solvers
• Availability
• Technological expertise
• Credibility
• Political connections
• Ambition, initiative and energy

3. Conducting Project Meetings
• Establishing Ground rules
• Planning Decisions
• Tracking Decisions
• Managing change decisions
• Relationship Decisions
• Managing Subsequent Project Meetings

4. Establishing a Team identity
• Effective use of meetings
• Co-location of team members
• Creation of project Teams
• Get the team to build or do something together
early on
• Team rituals

5. Creating a Shared Vision

6. Managing Project Reward Systems
• Letters of commendation
• Public Recognisation for their outstanding work
• Job assignments
• Flexibility

7. Orchestrating the Decision-Making
Process
• Problem Identification
• Generating Alternatives
• Reaching a Decision
• Follow upp

8. Managing Conflict within the
Project
• Encourgaging Functional Conflict
• Managing Dysfunctional Conflict
 Mediate the conflict
 Arbitrate the conflict
 Control the Conflict
 Accept it
 Eliminate the conflict

9. Rejuvenating the Project
Team

10. PROJECT TEAM PITFALLS
“Working as a team is great, until
its not.”
Though high performance project teams
can produce incredible outcomes, there
still remain some serious pitfalls that
project managers need to be aware of in
order not to fall in following ways:

11. PITFALLS:
Group-think
Bureaucratic Bypass Syndrome
Team infatuation
Going native

12. GROUP-THINK:
Group-think is a phenomenon when a group of
people get together and start to think collectively
with one mind and makes decisions without
critically evaluating possible alternatives. This
phenomenon would eventually lead to
unexpected project failures. Symptoms of
groupthink includes:
1)Illusion of invulnerability
2)Absence of critical thinking
3)Negative stereotypes
4)Direct pressure

13. Bureaucratic Bypass Syndrome:
Project teams sometimes manage
to get work done without having
to pass through the organization’s
red tape. It should be avoided
because it can undermine all of
the policies and procedures that
keep the company together once
if bypassing these channels
becomes habitual.

14. Team infatuation:
It is clear that the team infatuation
resulting from the excitement,
personal satisfaction, happy
moments, love, preoccupation, and
the challenge created within the high
performance project team to bring the
project into a success

15. Going Native:
The term ‘going
native’ means to
acquire the cultural
traits or characteristics
of the people around
you